You could draw thousands of lines on a map of America that preceded the beginnings of Sally Baby’s Silver Dollars; strands that zigzag across the earth from New York to San Francisco to Standing Rock. Yet each line inevitably leads back to one place- New Orleans.
Alash are masters of Tuvan throat singing, a remarkable technique for singing multiple pitches at the same time. Masters of traditional Tuvan instruments as well as the art of throat singing, Alash are deeply committed to traditional Tuvan music and culture. At the same time, they are fans of western music. Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve, the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western elements, creating their own unique style that is fresh and new, yet true to their Tuvan musical heritage.
Come hear Baltimore’s other orchestra-and dive into the wonderful world of the mandolin! The BMO, under directors Joel Michael-Schwartz and Mark Linkins, will play music new and old, in a show sure to captivate and charm.
Magdalena is thrilled to present their newest program, Voyager: From France to the Mediterranean. This narrated concert loosely follows the life of Madeleine Lartessuti, a legendary Renaissance seafarer who frequented France, the Mediterranean, andthe British Isles. Packed with foreign sea shanties, folk ballads, and Renaissance music alike, Voyager presents a unique sonic experience that is not to be missed.
Described by the international press as a “shamanic orchestra of the technological age” and “a living museum of sound” the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies recovers and brings to artistic life hundreds of forgotten indigenous musical instruments.
The Orchestra will present the show “Hidden Sounds of the Americas”, an audiovisual journey through the sound geography from Alaska to Patagonia featuring traditional music and contemporary compositions. Through a scenic and audiovisual display the Orchestra unites ancestral sounds with electronic technologies as well as Native dances and masks of the Americas.
The program travels through the sonic geography of the continent—from Alaska to Patagonia— presenting the ancestral sounds of instruments from Mayan, Aztec, Mochica, Inca, and Amazonian cultures, together with digital motion sensors, real-time spectral transformations and sound programming. The activity will introduce participants to the organological and sonic diversity of the cultures of the Americas, within the intersection between musical heritage, contemporary creation, and musical technologies.
The activity creates a dialogue on the processes of research, composition, avant-garde sound technology and instrument construction developed by the orchestra over more than twenty years of work.
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