Yarn/Wire Announce 2017-18 Concert Season

Yarn/Wire Announce 2017-18 Concert Season
 

photo credit: Bobby Fisher
 

New York-based percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire announced their 12th concert season, which includes performances and residencies in Norway, California, Belgium, Luxembourg, Massachusetts, South & North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas, Ireland and New York. You may find further concert details below as well as Yarn/Wire’s 2017-18 repertoire that features collaborations and commissions by Rick Burkhardt, Raphaël Cendo, Ann Cleare, Aarone Einbond, Catherine Lamb, Klaus Lang, Michelle Lou, Alvin Lucier, Thomas Meadowcroft, Alex Mincek, Enno Poppe, Jasper Vanpaemel and Anthony Vine. Please reply to this email for any and all press inquiries relating to Yarn/Wire.

 

Cody DeFalco

Clandestine Label Services

 

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“a dazzling variety of fresh sonic experimentation…. [Yarn/Wire] delve into the works with a keen interest in overtones and psychoacoustic effects, turning their process into an entrancing voyage where sounds dance, vibrate, and play with listener perceptions” - Bandcamp Daily

 

"[Yarn/Wire] give a pungent performance, full of drama and unrest." - The Wire

 

"questioning the boundaries of what music might be." - The Guardian

 

"fascinating and exciting, with playing that is precise and full of purpose" - Brooklyn Rail

 

"Yarn/Wire Mesmerizes at Lincoln Center Festival" - New York Times

 

“fascinating collaborations and commissions … sounds like if someone had let Steve Reich loose in a room full of old calliopes. It’s just a wild, very colorful sound.” - WNYC’s New Sounds

“consistently compelling” - The Log Journal

 

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YARN/WIRE 2017-18: 12th Concert Season At A Glance

9/13/17 – Ultima Festival, Oslo, Norway

9/22/17 – EMPAC, Troy NY

10/6/17 – The Kitchen, NYC

10/21/17 – Transit Festival, Leuven, Belgium

11/17-19 – Rainy Days Festival, Luxembourg

12/2/2017 – Yarn/Wire Currents with Blank Forms, Brooklyn NY

1/8/2018 – Monday Evening Concerts, Los Angeles CA

2/1/2018 – Miller Theatre, NYC

2/2-3/2018 – UNC Chapel Hill, North Carolina

3/6/2018 – Miller Theatre Popup (6pm), NYC

3/10/2018 – Columbia Composers, NYC

3/18/2018 – Brandeis University, MA

3/24/2018 – Southern Exposure Festival, University of South Carolina

4/6/2018 – Brown University, RI

4/13/2018 – Dublin, Ireland

4/20/2018 – Iceberg New Music, NY (Tenri Cultural Institute)

5/19/2018 – Manhattan Choral Ensemble, venue TBA NYC

June 2018 – Yarn/Wire Institute at Stony Brook University