Music in Durham is New
In their first spring showcase concert in 5 years, Durham’s band of composers, pulsoptional, presented Music In Durham Is New, a night of exciting new works composed by the collective’s award-winning composers.
This wonderful event took place on Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM in the beautiful ETC Auditorium on the campus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NCSSM). The concert was being presented as a part of NCSSM’s fine arts series and is free and open to the public.
Some of the ground-breaking new compositions on the program, bringing together electric strings, woodwinds, piano, drums, marimba and live electronics are:
Sidney Boquiren: Doves — joyous grooves, floating peace and the mourning in between.
marc faris: Smile and Nod Knowingly — math rock sensibility, drum ‘n’ bass aesthetic, all in a whirlwind.
Carrie Shull: Bell chimes and drums — candle light tintinnabulation and free improv drum drones.
John Mayrose: TapOut — digital delay lines performed by live players.
Sigur Rós (arr. Todd Hershberger): Í Gær — Icelandic soundscape prog excursion.
Aaron Brooks: Quintet
As a tribute to the city that pulsoptional likes to call home, the concert will be accompanied by visual projections of stunning historic images from the Digital Durham project at Duke University as well as inspired city images by local photographers and visual artists.