Drawing Music :: Look & Listen Festival at BRIC

Cellist Michael Nicolas

Today, my friends and I attended day two of the on-going Look & Listen Festival at BRIC Arts Media House in Brooklyn. Here's what the website says about the Festival's mission: "The Look & Listen Festival is an annual event dedicated to presenting new music in art galleries. The Festival seeks to expand and engage audiences of 20th and 21st music by providing a unique opportunity to simultaneously experience a stimulating visual environment for new music and a vibrant aural context for contemporary visual art. "

I can't believe that it's been 4 years since my first Look & Listen event...

It was an absolute pleasure to be there today! I will let the drawings do the talking. You can still catch two more days of this beautiful event on May 1st and May 2nd.

Hush by Phyllis Chen & Robert Dietz, being composed in real-time and looped.

Mario Davidovsky's 1960s composition, performed by cellist Michael Nicolas
with electronic computer loops.

Violinist from the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)

World Premiere of Sebastián Zubieta's piece commissioned by Look & Listen
entitled Coronata di stelle and performed by Adam Kent, Michael Nicolas and Adda Kridler

Composition Chorus Music by So Percussion.

Oscar Bettison’s Apart, performed by So Percussion. Playing tuning forks.

Adam Sliwinski of So Percussion playing a tuning fork for
Oscar Bettison’s Apart.