Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Tintinnare, a new work by
Tom Bickley. In this new work composer
Tom Bickley explores bells in various roles: calls to attention, invitations to contemplation, energizing sounds, signifiers of solemnity, bringers of delight, awareness, transcendence and presence. Inspired by the sculptures of Bruce Hasson and a long fascination with bells, Tom invites your participation in this two-hour acoustic and digital multi-channel listening and sounding experience.
On Saturday July 19th,
Tom Bickley will lead an open workshop for the public. At this workshop members of the public will explore ways of sounding various bells. Tom will record the results of these explorations and use them in the performance. Participants in these workshops will discuss an overview of bells as signals and signifiers (particularly as time markers, cues for immediate response [e.g., answering a telephone, or entering a contemplative state], the complexity of overtones that create a bell’s timbre, and options for eliciting sound from the bells.
$10 general; $5 students, seniors
Cost: $10/5