MONDAY, MARCH 28
BENT FREQUENCY DUO PROJECT & DUET FOR THEREMIN & LAP STEEL • 8 PM • KOPLEFF RECITAL HALL • Free Admission
MONDAY, MARCH 28
BENT FREQUENCY DUO PROJECT & DUET FOR THEREMIN & LAP STEEL • 8 PM • KOPLEFF RECITAL HALL • Free Admission
Please join us to celebrate the 5 year reunion of the SoundNOW Festival in Atlanta! The new music scene in Atlanta has so much to offer, so be sure to check out the full line up of events between March 27- April 3. The festival features performances by Terminus Ensemble, Perimeter Flutes, Bent Frequency Duo Project, Duet for Theramin and Lap Steel, NeoPhonia New Music Ensemble, Pantera Percussion Trio, Chamber Cartel, Whispers of Night, Artifactual String Unit, Smol Ensemble, and Atlanta Contemporary Ensemble. All information about the festival can be found here: Atlantasoundnowfestival.com
Bent Frequency, ensemble in residence at Georgia State University, is a professional contemporary music ensemble based in Atlanta. Hailed as “one of the brightest new music ensembles on the scene today” by Gramophone magazine, Bent Frequency engages an eclectic mix of the most adventurous and impassioned players from the greater Atlanta area. Founded in 2003, Bent Frequency (BF) brings the avant-garde to life through adventurous and socially conscious programming, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and community engagement. One of BF’s primary goals is championing the work of historically underrepresented composers - music by women, composers of color, and LGBTQIA+. Its programming, educational outreach, and community events aim to be inclusive of the diverse and dynamic community they are a part of. BF does not have a fixed instrumentation. Instead it is a modular group that is flexible enough to present everything from large-scale chamber concerts to smaller, more intimate performances.
We have collaborated with some of the most ground-breaking composers working today and have produced large-scale events such as Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon’s chamber opera Comala at the International Cervantino Festival and Fiestas de Octubre in Mexico, Juan Trigos’ fully staged chamber opera DeCachetitoRaspado, Jennifer Walshe’s Barbie opera XXX_Live_Nude_Girls!!! and have held 3-day festivals celebrating the music of Steve Reich on the occasion of his 70th birthday and a Festival of New Music from Mexico. BF has appeared as ensemble-in-residence at the Tage Aktueller Musik in Nürnberg, Sam Houston State New Music Festival, Charlotte New Music Festival, New Music on the Point in Vermont and at the University of Georgia. In 2013, BF created the Bent Frequency Duo Project (Jan Berry Baker and Stuart Gerber). Together, they have commissioned over 30 new works for saxophone and percussion and have given countless performances across the USA, Mexico, and Europe. They have recently released their debut CD, Diamorpha, on the Centaur Label featuring a number of these new works.
BF has been awarded numerous prestigious and competitive governmental and foundational grants to fund the creation and promotion of New Music. Recent awards include the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE), Barlow Foundation, Georgia Council for the Arts, Copland Foundation, Fulton County Arts Council, Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation (National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew Mellon Foundation), and Culture Ireland to name a few.Bent Frequency has partnered with many ensembles, dance groups, and visual artists in creating unique productions. Recent collaborations include producing Zohn-Muldoon’s Comala with PUSH Physical Theater, a John Cage MUSICIRCUS in celebration of the centenary of Cage’s birth with the Goat Farm Arts Center, Atlanta Poet’s group and visual artist Craig Dongoski, and multiple performances with CORE Performance Company including two, three-night series events entitled On Love and Secret at the Callanwolde Arts Center. Always looking for new ways to present music to reach as wide an audience as possible, Bent Frequency has performed in traditional concert halls, art museums, galleries, bike trails and even on the Atlanta Streetcar!
Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel is Scott Burland, Theremin and Frank Schultz, Lap Steel guitar. "The name of this Atlanta duo implies a proper classical recital, a rigid formality. But Scott Burland (theremin) and Frank Schultz (lap steel) don't do scripted, improvising not so much distinct sounds as evolving eddies of sound, vapors of tones that develop and transform gracefully. Hypnotic pulses and dreamy drones weave together to form a kaleidoscope of sounds and moods, ambient clouds and swooning collages that are as much about texture as they are timbre, like a long-lost soundtrack to a deep-sea documentary." - Columbia Free Times
“This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs,
and the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.”
