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The 2023 PRISMS Contemporary Music Festival presents: Re-Works. This year's festival features an exciting lineup of composers and performers who are exploring the many ways in which music can re-imagine, re-conceive and re-envision existing music, and the diversity that arises from those sonic conversations.

From the virtuosic Desahogo by Nicaragua’s Yader Ugarte to the cutting-edge sounds of ASU’s composition faculty, from the monumental Sur Incises by France’s Pierre Boulez to new works by emerging composers and electronic music for ambisonic dome, PRISMS explores the ways in which music can be used to express the unique perspectives of different cultures, and how the notion of Re-Work acts as a lens through which to understand these diverse musical traditions.

This year, PRISMS is excited to welcome visiting artists Michelle Gott and Emily Levin.

Ambisonic Dome Concert: Mexican Multichannel Music (MMM)

Friday November 17, 5:00 pm. Stauffer B #123. $5. Buy tickets here.
Click here for the program.  
Click here for more info on the Ambisonic Dome. 

Program curated by F. Tito Rivas, featuring music by Tania Rubio, CNDSD (Malitzin Cortés), Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Edmar Soria, and a world premiere by F. Tito Rivas. 


Sur Incises + ASU Faculty

Saturday November 18, 8:00 pm. Katzin Concert Hall. Free.
Watch the livestream here.
Alex Temple - Mod wheel go spinny, for clarinet duo. Égide Duo. World premiere. 
alejandro t. acierto - upon the horizon, a space of unknowing, for contrabass clarinet and electronics.
Gabriel Bolaños - Bachstro Plutaños Saarigeti, for two harps and electronics. Michelle Gott and Emily Levin. World premiere. 
Daniel Bernard Roumain - The Loss, for 6-string electric violin and electronics. 
Pierre Boulez - Sur Incises. ACME. 



Call for Scores + Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble

Sunday November 19, 12:00 pm. Katzin Concert Hall. Free.
Watch the livestream here.
Noemy Esparza-Isaacson - La Tejedora | Entanglements, for percussion trio, electronics and video. World premiere.
Yader Ugarte - Desahogo. ACME. World premiere. 
Iván-Manuel Tapia Bruno- Di(a)sociaciones. ACME. Arizona premiere. 
Becky Brown- On the Ontology of Sound in Multidimensional Space. ACME. Arizona premiere. 
R Kelvin McCartney Adesso - Tentative Creaturing, for saxophone quartet. World premiere.
Kylar Gardner - swell, for brass quintet. World premiere.
Tommy McPhee - Freezing Tereré, for brass quintet electronics and video. World premiere. 
Julie Zhu (Winner of the 2023 call for scores) - Lawrence St. Kodachrome Sax Quartet. Arizona premiere. 


Ambisonic Dome Concert: Mexican Multichannel Music (MMM)

Sunday November 19, 3:00 pm. Stauffer B #123. $5. Buy tickets here.
Click here for the program.  

Program curated by F. Tito Rivas, featuring music by Tania Rubio, CNDSD (Malitzin Cortés), Manuel Rocha Iturbide, Edmar Soria, and a world premiere by F. Tito Rivas. .


ASU Faculty + Guests

Monday, November 20, 8:00 pm. Katzin Concert Hall. Free.
Watch the livestream here. 
Shelley Washington - MO’INGUS, for solo saxophone. 
Jody Rockmaker - Shared Experiences. ACME. World premiere. 
Jody Rockmaker - Shifty Canons. ACME. World premiere.
Garth Paine - Surface Texture (II movement). World premiere.
Fernanda Navarro - Unnoticed Specacles. ACME. Arizona premiere.
Barry Moon - Stage 3, for clarinet and video. Robert Spring. World premiere.
Spencer Arias - Colorful Clouds

Talks, workshops and lectures: 


Wednesday, November 15. 3:35 - 4:25pm in Music W130 -- Visiting artist Emily Levin presents a workshop on composing for harp. 

Saturday, November 18. 11:00 - 1:00pm in Music W218 -- Open rehearsal of Gabriel Bolaños’ piece with Michelle Gott and Emily Levin, demonstrating electroacoustic techniques. 

Monday, November 20. 3:35 - 4:25pm in Music W130 -- Julie Zhu, winner of the 2023 PRISMS call for scores, will give a visiting lecture and present her work at the ASU composition seminar.