Frequency Festival: a.pe.ri.od.ic

a.pe.ri.od.ic presents a program of works quiet and absurd featuring Laura Steenberge’s Elevator Music, James Klopfleisch’s Read Two Parts, Scott Cazan’s Limit Ordinal, Matt Sargent’s Tide, and Julia Holter’s Song of Slow Songs. Concluding the program we’ll present Opus 2 from Tim Parkinson’s opera Time With People, a work we will perform in full next season.

The evening will include trash, white noise, glissandi, clapping, mimicking, and vocal ‘dums.’

a.pe.ri.od.ic is a Chicago-based performance collective featuring post-Cagean notated, acoustic, experimental music. Founded in 2010, a.pe.ri.od.ic’s repertoire explores the indeterminacy of various musical elements including instrumentation, structure, pitch, and/or duration. Drawn to works of sparseness, contemplation, and quietude, this “daring group” (Chicago Reader) focuses on scores primarily notated with prose. Led by Nomi Epstein, the ensemble has commissioned, premiered, and recorded works by composers such as Michael Pisaro, Eva-Maria Houben, Jurg Frey, James Saunders, and Pauline Oliveros. a.pe.ri.od.ic released its debut album, more or less, featuring the music of Jurg Frey in 2014 under New Focus Recordings.

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