Hinge Quartet: Ghost in the Machine

Name: Hinge Quartet: Ghost in the Machine
Start: 2024-10-11T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 132 Ipswich St, Boston, MA 02215-3534, United States

Schedule

Fri Oct 11 2024 at 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

132 Ipswich St, Boston, MA 02215-3534, United States | Boston, MA

Friday, October 11th at 8 pm EST ~ 132 Ipswich St, room 106
Program
Keith Kirchoff: Emergence (2022)
Dan VanHassel: Ghost in the Machine (2013/2018)
Kirsten Volness: No Rest for the Wicked (2024) (WORLD PREMIERE)
Donnacha Dennehy: Glamour Sleeper II (2003)
Eda Er: Sometimes People Take Goodbyes Too Lightly (2023)
Ed Martin: Cook (2023)
Admission is FREE!
Hinge pianist Keith Kirchoff's beautiful and evocative “Emergence” opens the program with an artistic response to emerging from the isolation of the pandemic, while guitarist Dan VanHassel's work “Ghost in the Machine” explores humanity's relationship with technology through the use of electronically-triggered percussion instruments directly interacting with the ensemble. Next is the WORLD PREMIERE of the richly varied “No Rest for the Wicked” by Kirsten Volness, which she describes as “an effort to exorcise the demons, to shake them off, to dance them into another dimension.” Following this is Irish composer Donnacha Dennehey's intensely rhythmic and thrilling “Glamour Sleeper II” is heard next in a brand new arrangement for the group. Rounding out the program are two Boston premieres of two contrasting recent Hinge Quartet commissions by Turkish composer and sound artist Eda Er and Wisconsin-based composer Ed Martin. The Er is an introspective rumination on the fleeting nature of human connection, and the Martin a blast of kinetic energy to bring things to a close.
We hope to see you there!
Sincerely, Hinge Quartet