416 Commissions – Michael Flora and Tara Loeper

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Tara Loeper (performing first)

This piece is a collection of works based on the music, philosophy and visions of the 11th century Catholic mystic, St. Hildegard of Bingen.  It explores the relationship between the universe and the body, ritual and performance, power and love. The performance will include elements of speech, singing, and noise.  It will feature the voices and words of St. Hildegard of Bingen, Tara Loeper, Virginia Woolf, Mina Loy, bell hooks, Nekima Levy-Pounds, Elizabeth Windnagel, Bethany Battafarano, Elizabeth Roddy, Tessa Silbernagel, Mandy Goldberg and more. 30-45 minute composition for female choir and electronics inspired by musical and theological work of Hildegard von Bingen.

Michael Flora (performing second)

Nothing is a new work for sound and movement by composer Michael Flora and Butoh artist Gadu Doushin. As with previous music projects Flora will employ a variety of digital synthesis methods and processing of acoustic sounds to create a piece that explores a play of colors, textures, and overarching shape.  Nothing is not anything; something that does not exist; someone or something of no value or size; nothingness; nonexistence; absence of quantity; void; zero. In the instance of this performance, nothing could refer to an absence of suggested meaning.