GUIDED IMPROV: Live at the Frick Collection

Athos Maelstrom realizes score-artworks by 10 composers from around the world, live at the Frick Collection’s Garden Court. This performance is built around audience interruption – composer Brian Ellis's deck of 24 cyanotype cards invites audience members to blend visuals together into a blueprint for Athos.

On-the-spot interpretation and lighthearted, transient socialization mold this evening of performance art into a love letter to human creativity and the whimsical curiosity that fuels it.

Program:

SEESSA –– Sermon 85 (WORLD PREMIERE)

ALIREZA KHODAYARI — Sketch No. 3 (WORLD PREMIERE)

JACQUELYN DESHCHIDN –– La Mort d’Hyacinthe (WORLD PREMIERE)

BRIAN ELLIS –– 24 Cyanotype Score Cards: (observations on the edges of light) (WORLD PREMIERE)

JIMENA MALDONADO –– Two steps back / Two steps forward

MARGIN ZHENG –– magnetic poetry meditation 1.

(intermission)

NAAMIA RIVERA –– You can’t force nature (WORLD PREMIERE)

MARTHA CARGO –– Vox aurore (WORLD PREMIERE)

JAMES HAMILTON LOWRIE –– Something For…

CANDELARIA GÓMEZ –– Composer-Performer (WORLD PREMIERE)

ECHO_O_O –– A Playful Body

SEESSA –– Sermon 85

Featuring:

Athos Maelstrom, cello

Brian Ellis, composer (and instigator)

Guests of the Gallery (anonymous), composers

THE FRICK COLLECTION, Garden Court – 5:30 pm

NEW YORK, NY

*FULL ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW ON BANDCAMP AND SOUNDCLOUD!*

(album cover shot by Anh Nguyen)

(Athos Maelstrom at the Frick Collection, shot by Anh Nguyen)