Vivier, Lanzilotti, Walker, Tenney

92NY
1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10128

Saturday, March 22, 2025
Event starts at 7:30pm

Program
Scott Walker Rubato (It: ‘Stolen Time’)
Leilehua Lanzilotti with eyes the color of time
Vivier Zipangu
James Tenney Saxony

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About
In music, tuning sets the stakes and the boundaries of our world. It is the carbon we build mountains with, the oxygen we breathe in, it is our environment and, within the duration of a piece, it becomes us. Tunings often resemble nature, ratios instead of generalities, cycles mirroring the cosmos, and patterns turning up anywhere and everywhere the way we see for example Fibonacci in nature. It is with that outlook then that we turn to look toward ancient musics and pieces not yet heard to find tuning, central in its crystal mathematics and ecstatic formalities shaping a whole weekend of music making. For this special search we call Darkness Sounding congregating and coalescing for the first time outside Los Angeles at 92NY, this year honoring tuning.

Legendary avant-pop icon Scott Walker’s final piece was a siren storm written for Wild Up. We are honored to bring Rubato (It: ‘Stolen Time’) for trombones, strings, and electronics to NYC, performing it for the first time outside Los Angeles. We pair the songs and lineages of Leilehua Lanzilotti’s Pulitzer Finalist work with eyes the color of time, queer Canadian composer Claud Vivier’s futurist Zipangu, and LA composer James Tenney’s celestial improvised wall of overtones Saxony to NYC for the first time in a long time.