SEAMUS Atlanta - Adam Mirza and Bent Frequency present Forest in a City

 April 27th, 8pm at Eyedrum. 515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312

Tickets: $10/$5 students at the door

Join us for the SEAMUS Atlanta Conference (The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States)

Forest in a City is a sound installation and immersive performance using wooden speaker-objects and featuring live performances by members of Atlanta new music ensemble Bent Frequency. The event imagines a new urban soundscape, a heterogenous combination of works and audio artifacts by SEAMUS composers that reflect on the nature of ongoing development within cities like Atlanta (“the city in a forest”). The installation will appear as an indoor “forest” of 8 wooden panels used as speaker-objects spread around the performance space. These panels were made by local Atlanta luthier, DJ Betsill, using wood from an 800-year-old “Sinker Cyprus” log found preserved in a swamp on the Georgia coast. Similar to John Cage’s Musicircus, multiple pieces (acoustic and electronic), will be played simultaneously in the gallery space.  We are inspired by Giorgio Magnanensi’s current practice using wooden panels with transducers (https://giorgiomagnanensi.com/soundgarden-2022), as well as David Tudor’s Rainforest IV and Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet. 

The event will take place at Eyedrum, one of Atlanta’s oldest experimental arts presenters, currently located in a former industrial/railroad building near downtown Atlanta.

Composers presented:

Iddo Aharony

Jeremy Castro Baguyos

Nicholas Cline

Kittie Cooper

Alex Christie

Garrison Gerard

David George Haskell

Holland Hopson

Daniel Karcher

Kerrith Livengood

Giorgio Magnanensi

Scott L. Miller

Adam Mirza

John Moeller

Daniel Smith

Performers:

Jan Berry Baker, saxophone

Stuart Gerber, percussion

This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, and the Amphion Foundation.