Free Admission
The University of Alabama’s Sonic Frontiers concert series presents its first transcontinental, telematic concert!
Norwegian-French quartet Dans les arbres will perform at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs simultaneously with theDewar/Feeney/Hopson Trio at the University of Alabama, connected via high-speed internet2.
Telematic concerts unite artists over the web in real-time, creating new forms of collaborative art and conjoining multiple communities. This concert is jointly presented by Sonic Frontiers, The University of Colorado Colorado Springs Music Department, and the Peak FreQuency Creative Arts Collective.
Dans les arbres is a collaborative quartet made up of one Frenchman and three Norwegians: Xavier Charles (clarinet, harmonica), Ivar Grydeland(acoustic guitar, prepared banjo, sruti box), Christian Wallumrød (piano), and Ingar Zach (percussion, bass drum). Their music has been called, humorous, exotic, electronic (although they are an entirely acoustic ensemble), mesmerizing, dark, nuanced, dense and open. Their unique yet accessible music is at once peaceful and challenging, gripping and boundless.
The Dewar/Feeney/Hopson Trio is an improvising group made up of University of Alabama professors Andrew Raffo Dewar (soprano saxophone), Tim Feeney (percussion), and Holland Hopson (electronics). The three musicians have extensive international expertise in a range of genres of music, from new music, to electronic music and jazz.
