I/O Fest: THE BOX–music by living composers - I/O New Music

I/O FEST ’11

Steven Dennis Bodner and Matthew Gold, directors

After a very successful debut of the I/O Fest last year, the Williams College Department of Music proudly brings it back for a second year. Performances will take place over three days from Thursday, Jan. 6 through Saturday, Jan. 8, at ’62 Center and a site TBD. NO tickets necessary.

The Box – music by living composers

I/O New Music

Beating

Works by Nick Brooke, Chaya Czernowin, David Kechley, György Kurtág, Eric Wubbels

PROGRAM

Nick Brooke                    Double (2007)
David Kechley                solo piano pieces (world premiere)
Eric Wubbels                  Beata Viscera (2008)
György Kurtág                Hommage à R. Sch. (1990)
Chaya Czernowin           The Hour Glass Bleeds Still (1992/99)

I/O New Music, co-directed by Steven Bodner and Matthew Gold, is the house band for the Williams College Music Department’s BOX series and curator of the annual I/O FEST.  Composed primarily of Williams College music faculty and guests, I/O performs cutting-edge new music that explores the wide spectrum of today’s most vital compositional trends. The ensemble is especially interested in music that defies category, crosses musical and conceptual boundaries, and that challenges performers and audiences alike.  With its flexible roster, I/O is able to perform electro-acoustic music, theatrical works, and compositions that re-imagine the capabilities of conventional instruments. I/O believes that music exists in space as well as time, and seeks to present programs that make full use of the physical environment in which it is performed. I/O New Music invites audiences to fully experience music that is not merely contemporary, but that, in advancing the musical language and perhaps altering the way we hear, is essential. THE BOX series was conceived in 2007 by Williams composers David Kechley and Ileana Perez Velazquez to present the music of living composers in setting more intimate and a performance space more flexible than a traditional concert hall. Performers include visiting artists and groups as well as I/O New Music, the BOX house band.