Bent Frequency presents We Found Each Other, featuring works by Juraj Kjoš, Dorothy Hindman, Paul Elwood, Alvin Singleton, Yi-Ting Lu, and Helmut Lachenmann.

Eyedrum, 8pm

$15/ $5 students

We Found Each Other invites listeners into an evening of bold, immersive works that transform memory, identity, and tradition into vivid sonic experiences. From the reconstructed multiphonics of Dorothy Hindman’s Study for Untitled VI—where past musical fragments are reborn into new sound worlds—to the poetic turbulence of Paul Elwood’s The Inevitable Descent of Heaven, inspired by Rimbaud’s Illuminations, both pieces offer a compelling encounter with sound as personal reinvention.

Changing Faces by Atlanta’s own Alvin Singleton unfolds as a vivid collage of shifting musical characters, where mystery, rhythmic energy, and unexpected contrasts continuously reshape the listener’s experience. Blending influences from jazz, theater, minimalism, and African American musical traditions, Singleton crafts a sound world that is both strikingly expressive and endlessly surprising.

The program also features Helmut Lachenmann’s mesmerizing Sakura-Variationen, where the beloved Japanese melody appears only as a ghostly echo beneath layers of delicate noise and gesture, Yi-Ting Lu’s Unopened Seashell, a breath-driven exploration of resonance that draws performers and audience into a shared, intimate soundscape, and Juras Kjoš’ We Found Each Other, an “artphibian” piece that merges poetry, music, botany, biology, technology, and performance, using DNA-derived material from the Foxtail Orchid as its creative source and featuring a hybrid physical–digital setup.

Together, these works create a concert experience that is atmospheric, thought-provoking, and unforgettable—an invitation to hear familiar histories transformed into something startlingly new. Join us and step into a world where sound becomes identity rediscovered.

Featuring performers:

Adelaide Federici, violin

Jan Berry Baker saxophone

Erika Tazawa, piano

Stuart Gerber, percussion

Funding for this program is provided by the Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, Fulton County Board of Commissioners, the Amphion Foundation, the Copland Foundation, and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University.