Sō Percussion
Imaginary
City
February 12 & 13,
2010, 8pm
Commissioned by
DiverseWorks with Myrna Loy Center/ Helena, Flynn Center for the Performing
Arts and National Performance Network DiverseWorks Theater
The New York Times
described Sō Percussion as “brilliant” and Billboard Magazine called them
“Astonishing.” Imaginary City is the newest work by Brooklyn’s Sō
Percussion. The virtuosos of So Percussion create mind-expanding chamber music that is at turns raucous and touching, barbarous and heartfelt. They have collaborated with filmmaker Jenise Treuting to capture the sounds and images of several cities – from Treuting’s home in Tokyo to the vast skies of Helena, MT; to the mountains of Denver, CO; through the heartland
of Cleveland, OH and the New England landscape of Burlington, VT and to the
urban jungle of Houston. to emphasize the uniqueness and commonalities between
the various cities. The performance will center around Sō Percussion’s
utilization of percussion instruments to communicate the extremes of emotion
and musical possibility. Imaginary City takes the experimentation one step further with music based partially on invented instruments, blurring the lines between sound and vision to create an artistic metropolis.
Imaginary City is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation
Fund Project co-commissioned by DiverseWorks, Myrna Loy Center/ Helena, Flynn Center for the
Performing Arts, and the NPN. Major contributors to the NPN are
the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Nathan Cummings
Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information on NPN: www.npnweb.org
www.sopercussion.com
Check out what others are saying about Imaginary City: NYTimes TimeOut NY
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