MADE IN THE USA

Yarn/Wire was founded in 2005 by four musicians, students of Stony Brook University in New York. The ensemble soon began to develop its repertoire through close collaboration with composers/ici, sound artists and representatives of the noise scene. The works performed at TRANSART by three composition talents living in the US show different sonic approaches to sound and form. In Feedback Studies, Sarah Davachi sculpts a slow and deep soundscape, where resonances and acoustic returns merge between percussion and vibrating pianos. Andrew McIntosh's Little Jimmy is a tribute to the memory of a vanished place: a poetic interweaving of bowed piano, vibraphone and ambient recordings from a fire-ravaged Californian forest. With Tactile Values, Anthony Cheung explores scordaturas, tactile polyrhythms and harmonic flashes, creating an ever-changing sound structure. A programme that narrates the richness of contemporary music, shaped by different geographies, aesthetics and imaginaries.

Program:

Sarah Davachi
Feedback Studies for percussion (2022) – Italian Premiere
Andrew McIntosh
Little Jimmy (2020) – Italian Premiere
Anthony Cheung
Tactile Values (2023) – Italian Premiere

With the friendly support of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation