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Now in its 14th year, ASU’s PRISMS Festival continues its mission of promoting contemporary music to a wider audience. This year’s festival presents several world and Arizona premieres, as well as the winner of our 2024 call for scores and music by ASU faculty and students. The program includes a wide variety of genres and performance practices, ranging from acousmatic works to chamber music, from electronic improvisation to works that incorporate performance art.
All events are free and open to the public.
Music by:
Jacob Adler
Alberto Carretero
Inga Chinilina
Katia Geha
Lauren Sarah Hayes
Jennifer Higdon
Heather Hindman
Jean Howard
Sofía Matus Cancino
Christopher Norby
João Pedro Oliveira
Luis Quintana
Luis Ramirez
Rachel Rinker
Jody Rockmaker
Daniel Bernard Roumain
Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei
Eric Saroian
Alex Temple
Performances by:
Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME)
Kodachrome Saxophone Quartet
Lotus Saxophone Quartet
byte duo
ASU Percussion Ensemble
ASU Brass Ensemble
Herberger String Quartet
Festival Schedule
Saturday, October 5, 2024
3:00–3:30 Guest composer talk: Heather Hindman. W2183:35–4:05 Guest composer talk: Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei. W218
4:10–4:40 Guest composer talk: Inga Chinilina. W218
4:45–5:15 Guest composer talk: Alberto Carretero. W218
5:30–6:30 Roundtable discussion with PRISMS guest composers and ASU composition faculty. W218
6:30–7:15 Reception (with food!) Music Building Lobby
7:30–9:00 Concert 1. Katzin Concert Hall.
Alberto Carretero - Fata Morgana. Kodachrome Sax Quartet
Jody Rockmaker - Such Nonsense, for piano and voice. ACME
Daniel Bernard Roumain - I have nothing to do except love, for voice, violin and piano
Lauren Sarah Hayes - The Accusations That Are Confessions, hybrid analogue/digital live electronics
Sunday, October 6, 2024
1:00–1:45 Microtonal piano workshop with Jacob Adler. Katzin Concert Hall2:00–3:00 Concert 2. Katzin Concert Hall.
Jacob Adler - Piano improvisation inspired by LaMonte Young’s Well-Tuned Piano
Jean Howard - Cycle, for fixed media
Eric Saorian - Lunar Signal, for saxophone quartet. ACME
Sofía Matus Cancino - Microbodies, for fixed media
Luis Quintana - Junkyard Construction, for fixed media
Jeniffer Higdon - Short Stories (excerpt), Lotus Saxophone Quartet.
7:30–9:30 Concert 3. Katzin Concert Hall.
Heather Hindman - Fanfare for an uncommon person, for amplified brass quintet and electronics.
Luis Ramirez - Prompt, for sax duo and electronics. byte duo
Daniel Reza Sabzghabaei - At any rate - II باقی ماندهدانیال رضا سبزقبایی "what remains" for string quartet. Herberger Quartet
Inga Chinilina - Time slips through our fingers like sand, for percussion trio. Contemporary Percussion Ensemble
Christopher Norby - Wacko, for string quartet. Herberger Quartet
Katia Geha - Quartet for a broken world, for percussion quartet. Contemporary Percussion Ensemble
Sunday, November 17, 2024
2:30–4:00 Concert 4. Katzin Concert Hall.
Katia Geha - Quartet for a broken world. ACME
João Pedro Oliveira - Towdah. ACME
Rachel Rinker - Yellow Breeze. ACME
Iván-Manuel Tapia Bruno - Di(a)sociaciones. ACME
Laura Toxværd - Navigation. ACME
Alex Temple - mod wheel go spinny. Égide Duo
Getting here:
Arizona State University Music Building: https://maps.app.goo.gl/tGjRSGrbBgYLSkuJ7
Katzin Hall: https://app.mappedin.com/map/66833b618d6e78000b7f324c?floor=m_86f01ba155d8fd18&location=s_e07ec86ec60c9857