Chrysi Nanou: The Known World-Music for Piano and Mixed Media for and from a Changing Climate

Name: Chrysi Nanou: The Known World-Music for Piano and Mixed Media for and from a Changing Climate
Start: 2024-11-22T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Cir, Mountain View, CA, United States, California 94040

Schedule

Fri Nov 22 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Finn Center, 230 San Antonio Cir, Mountain View, CA, United States, California 94040 | Mountain View, CA

CSMA Faculty Chrysi Nanou will present “The Known World” featuring works for piano and mixed media (electronic sounds, video, recordings) inspired and created with environmental data. The contemporary composers on the program, bring their distinct voices to raise awareness of ongoing environmental changes through sound and music. These pieces together create an instantly compelling palette, one that simultaneously combines current music technologies with ideas, materials, and traditions inspired by the natural world. Electronic sounds mixed with breath, ice crackling, animal cries, hand-made instruments, and sonic objects along with a technologically reimagined piano, create a kind of harmony with contrasting lyrical improvisations and the overhead whine, purr, and rumble of the nearby urban environment.