Known for her sparse, probing chamber works, Margriet Hoenderdos鈥檚 piece for symphony orchestra opens this second concert from the 大象传媒 SSO, and highlights a voice that鈥檚 been neglected since her death in 2010. 鈥楲ove of life, or of others, is an abject experience,鈥� writes Ian Power. 鈥楾he abject response to human body fluids is viscerally similar, bringing an uncomfortable awareness of the body, and mortality.鈥� In his new work, musicians and listeners are drawn together to 鈥榮hare an unease about what is meaningful and what might be waste.鈥�
Fellow US composer William Dougherty鈥檚 piece explores nostalgia by means of a damaged 1907 wax cylinder recording of Home, Sweet Home, a popular tune in the United States throughout the American Civil War and after. Finally, saxophonist and composer Ingrid Laubrock鈥檚 Drilling is from a series of pieces inspired by dream diaries and composed in a quasi-dreamlike state, as a haunting, slow harmonic progression becomes increasingly corrupted by electronics and detuned piano chords. Ilan Volkov conducts.
