INTERBEING II
10 . 07 . 23 - DiMenna, Cary Hall
8pm

WITH OPENING SET BY SINONÓ

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TAK presents an intensified exploration of collectivism, virtuosic intimacy, and multimodal performance practices in the newest iteration of their years-long collaboration with composer, Eric Wubbels. 

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interbeing II:
Prelude* // INSTRUMENTS // Mobile* // BREAD // SONGS (Ode to Man)*
// Cartouche //Relation* // ROOT AND VEIN*

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interbeing ii, numbered for each iteration of the long-form work, will consist of eight movements of chamber music, quasi-theatrical ritual, and Cartouches—a series of performed bodily sculptures based on listening and responding to other performers’ innate physical systems of breath and heartbeat. 

Reconfiguring the performance space into an expansive home, TAK will weave the different movements into a roaming multisensorial evening, complete with teas and foods foraged from Wubbels’ home in western Massachusetts. With an attention to interconnectivity, each layer of the work explores the implications of a socially-oriented music, as the ensemble shapeshifts between playing as a giant compound organism with highly virtuosic individual lines that clash and collide, and inhabiting trance-like states of collective sonic ritual and hypnotic reverence. 

* denotes world premiere

“INTERBEING has been a project years in the making that continues to unfurl and surprise us, we’re beyond ecstatic to share the most recent iteration of this transportive work. The evening will consist of eight movements of chamber music, ritual, and theatrical sounding sculptures enacted with our bodies. The aim of interbeing is to create a truly socially-oriented work and explore different articulations of interconnectivity—between composer & performers & audience & each specific place in which the piece is performed. To that end, the performance on October 7th will include a selection of prepared food and beverages crafted by Wubbels and TAK that rely on ingredients foraged over the course of several months by Wubbels in his hometown in Western Massachusetts.” - TAK

The music-making is communal and without hierarchy.

Musical structures arise through the overlapping and interference between individual contributions.

The sound field is in a constant flux. 

We leave behind the limitations of our separate identities, fusing into one social and sonic unit.

tickets are sliding scale $10-$100
no one is turned away for lack of funds; please email contact@takensemble.com for additional discounts

ABOUT ERIC WUBBELS

Eric Wubbels (b.1980) is a composer and performer. Since 2004 he has been pianist and Co-Director of the Wet Ink Ensemble (NYC). A recipient of the 2023 Ernst von Siemens Foundation Composers Prize, his music has been presented by LA Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series, Huddersfield Festival, New York Philharmonic CONTACT, Zurich Tage für Neue Musik, and many others. As a performer he has given U.S. premieres of works by major figures such as Peter Ablinger, Richard Barrett, George Lewis, and Beat Furrer, as well as vital young artists such as Ingrid Laubrock, Clara Ianotta, Darius Jones, Cat Lamb, Charmine Lee, and Anna Webber.

ABOUT SINONÓ

sinonó is a brief submergence, a string of choices, a container for the communion of rigor and failure. This NYC-based trio, featuring Isabel Crespo Pardo (voice), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Henry Fraser (bass), performs graphic scores and poem-songs composed by Crespo. sinonó will release their debut album in February 2024.

ABOUT TAK

Regarded as “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), TAK delivers energetic performances "that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (The WIRE), and “impresses with the organicity of their sound, their dynamism and virtuosity” (New Sounds, WQXR).  

Founded on the principles of curiosity, change, and collaboration, TAK is dedicated to commissioning new works and direct partnership with composers and other artists, and they have premiered hundreds of works to date. The ensemble has released seven albums to critical acclaim and have been in residence at institutions such as Harvard University, Stanford University, Columbia University, Cornell University, New York University, and The Delian Academy for New Music. 

The 22-23 season marked TAK’s 10th anniversary, which celebrated a decade of cultivating creative programming at the highest level. Upcoming projects include new commissions from Jessie Cox, Bryan Jacobs, Ann Cleare, Weston Olencki, Elaine Mitchener, Seth Cluett, and ongoing collaborations with Eric Wubbels and DM R with Joy Guidry. Recent collaborations have included evening-length works by Michelle Lou, Mario Diaz de Leon, Taylor Brook, Brandon Lopez, and Ashkan Behzadi;  theater works with David Bird and Kelsey Tortsveit, TELE-violet theater company, Taylor Brook, and Alec Hall and Joshua Gelb; and concert pieces by Tyshawn Sorey, Bethany Younge, Natacha Diels, Erin Gee, Hannah Kendall, Julien Malaussena, Bara Gisladóttir, Lewis Nielson, Julio Zúñiga, and may other esteemed composers and artists.