Sunday, January 13, 2013
Images from Utopia/Euterpe/Dystopia (Photos: Zachary Stephens)
Composer David Smooke and the Harpisaurus
The artists interview each other about their project
Harpist Jacqueline Pollauf and David Smooke
Composer Ken Ueno and the Hookaphone
Noah Getz and Ken Ueno
Pictures on Silence duo Jacqueline Pollauf and Noah Getz
David Smooke plays the inner mechanism of a toy piano
Jacqueline Pollauf and David Smooke
The ensemble speaks with the audience after their performance
After a week of intense work together on Yellow Barn's campus at the Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont, composers David Smooke and Ken Ueno, along with harpist Jacqueline Pollauf and saxophonist Noah Getz, presented the first iteration of their collaborative composition "Utopia/Euterpe/Dystopia", a new performance piece that includes sounds from new inventions—a 10-foot harp and an extended saxophone—as well as pre-composed works for traditional harp and saxophone.