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Wild Shore New Music returns to Alaska for its thirteenth season, foregrounding Alaskan voices through interdisciplinary collaboration, improvisational practice, and chamber music as a site of cultural dialogue. Their newest program, created with Alaskan singer-songwriters, musicians, and filmmakers, presents a multidisciplinary work in three parts.The first part centers on singer-songwriter Quinn Christopherson, winner of NPR’s 2019 Tiny Desk Contest. Christopherson reimagines his songs for chamber ensemble, including new material from his upcoming album, due out later in 2027.
The second part pairs live music with experimental films by Alaskan filmmaker Michael Walsh. This includes Braking Breath, a 35mm silent color film, for which Wild Shore has commissioned percussionist/composer Matt Evan to reimagine his work Still Live as an accompaniment. It also includes a re-edited mashup of rescued 1970s 16mm educational films from the Anchorage school district, recontextualized into 21st-century motifs.
The final part brings together all of Wild Shore’s artists for the early stages of a larger work-in-progress, combining film, composition, and improvisation. It features a birch-wood violin made by Christopherson’s great-grandfather, Frank Hobson, known as “The Eskimo Violin Maker.”
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The Nave Spenard, 3502 Spenard Rd, Anchorage, AK 99503-3712, United States
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