Sunday, May 18 at 2220 Arts + Archives, 5:00pm: Vocal Chamber Music

Pierre Passereau's 16th-century "Il est bel et bon" is known for a section where the singing resembles the clucking of chickens...Through a melodramatic ramping up, Tanner Pfeiffer's et bon bon bon bon bon takes it to an absurd extreme where performers may be more chicken than human...Drew Corey's Again and Again composition process started with a driving 8th-note ostinato and was built from improvising off of an iPhone memo recording of it.

Three Copypastas, mvts 1 and 2, take us into the social networking arena, where a "copypasta" is 'any block of text that gets copied over and over again..." (and we all know that one!). Thus the piece, conceived by Theo Trevisan for SSAATTBB uses means of text repetition while paying homage to and subverting traditional tropes in double-choir writing. Chris Castro takes Paul Blackburn's poem, Brooklyn Narcissus, about a drunken train ride across the Manhattan Bridge while obsessing over the death of a plant and gives the solo soprano a fabulous workout as we contemplate our own dead plants! More works on the program by Elliot Menard, Kevin Zhang, Peter Knell, Arin Shahjahanian, John Hollywood, TJ Sclafani, and Hugh Levick.