Manifold - A Festival of Musical Diversity
Presented by the NYUAD Music Program
Emil Sein & Kiori Kawai: The Gathering
Music, Video and Performing Arts
Past EventAn innovative contemporary concert.
Saxophonist-clarinetist Emil Sein mixes music, dance, film, and interactive technology in this innovative contemporary concert, developed in collaboration with acclaimed performer/choreographer/installation artist Kiori Kawai. In The Gathering, each element explores its own boundary that is bent, blurred, dissolved, and merged into other elements.
The program for the evening:
- Aurel Stroe
- Les EUMENIDES d’a2res ESCHYLE for two saxophones simultaneously
- Robert Rowe
- Shells for soprano saxophone and tap / visuals / dance performance
- Dinu Ghezzo
- Wind Rituals for saxophones / clarinets/ dance performance
- Interactive sound system / visuals: Aaron Sherwood
- Carlos Guedes
- For baritone saxophone
- Steve Reich
- New York Counterpoint for clarinet and tape visuals Kiori Kawai
- Movement in visuals: Kiori Kawai and Kristin Sundberg
- New electronic arrangement Leonid Kuzmenko
- Stefan Niculescu
- Chant-Son for two saxophones simultaneously
- David Lesser
- Ubersetzung for bass clarinet
- Dance / Bettina Schober and Kiori Kawai
- Aaron Sherwood
- Archtype visuals / sound / saxophones
- Dance performance Bettina Schober and Kiori Kawai
This is a past event
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