What else is there to say? This will be THE BEST THING EVER. Stream will start around 7:20 PM EDT.
Here is the program:
And here is how you can support What is Noise:
https://www.gofundme.com/whatisnoisecd
Monthly Archives: March 2017
What is The BEST THING EVER?
Apparently, everything is #thebestthingever. One of the most ubiquitous hashtags out there, #thebestthingever is a celebration of well, everything, and nothing, all at once.
It is a burrito. A generation. A fleeting joy captured on Instagram a billion times. It is Josh Groban singing Donald Trump tweets.
It is also my next song cycle. Seriously, I know. Composed from the poetry of Laura Theobald’s same title book, THE BEST THING EVER is a post-minimalist pop-expressionist electronically-misted twenty-seven-and-a-half minute work exploring us and our phones. (Are you reading this on your phone?)
This poetry is unusual and groundbreaking because it was written using only the iPhone’s predictive text software–so it has Laura’s voice as expressed through her text message and status update patterns, filtered through her poetic abilities and Siri’s intelligible but slightly-off sentence construction. Our soprano, Jessica Louise Coe, will be singing to/in/with her iPhone throughout the cycle. If you come to the concert on March 30, you will also be welcome to be on your phone (just keep it silent for now, please). If you don’t live nearby you can watch the performance on your phone, streamed through some service yet to be determined.
There is also a preview & lecture event on March 29 from 11:00 to 11:50 am, EST at Kalamazoo College’s Light Fine Arts Building. This too, will be streamed to your devices via Facebook live (direct from my phone).
So make sure you “like” Adam Schumaker (that’s me) on the Facebook. You can do that by clicking my name right there. Yep. That’s it.
The song cycle is scored for a “Pierrot lunaire” ensemble, which will be performed by the new music ensemble What Is Noise–a decentralized group of renegade professors and artists who secretly convene upon a city to disseminate new music propaganda. Or in this case, some Stucky, McLoskey, and THE BEST THING EVER.
So come check it out:
March 30, 2017
7:30 pm
Dalton Theater at Kalamazoo College
