My sound installation, dis- will be included as part of Society for New Music’s October 14th Concert at Thornden Park.
Saturday, October 14, 2023, 2:00 PM
Thornden Park Amphitheater, Thornden Park Drive, Syracuse
Tickets: Free
SU Humanities Center's Syracuse Symposium, Society for New Music, and the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts welcome composer Augusta Read Thomas for a participatory work of bells and ambient sounds to celebrate community across cultures.
Organized by the Society for New Music and the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts, Resounding Earth inspires a participatory sonic landscape in the park amphitheater, featuring a performance of Pulitzer finalist Augusta Read Thomas's music for percussion quartet and ambient sounds celebrating community across cultures.
Ambient sounds, in this case, refer not only to sounds within the natural, outdoor setting but the fact that the musical score calls for 500 bells or sculpted metals of different sizes and shapes, from different cultures and historical periods.
To make this distinctive to CNY and the park, four regional composers will create mini-soundscapes in mapped locations nearby for visitors to explore before, during, or after Resounding Earth. Attendees are encouraged to bring a bell to "ring in" the performance, helping to change the sonic landscape for themselves and others.
The four movements of Resounding Earth:
1. INVOCATION – Pulse Radiance
2. PRAYER – Star Dust Orbits
3. CEREMONIAL TIME SHAPES
4. CRYSTAL LATTICE
"Everything that we are made of, everything that we know and love, is made from the stars." —Composer Augusta Read Thomas