Kurt Isaacson's CONDITION B

In a concert of music by Kurt Isaacson, Jennifer performs Isaacson's 2015 solo cello work, radiant species, alongside condition b performed by Luke Storm (tuba), Matt Barbier (euphonium), and Elise Roy (flute). 

"'the cage, on this occasion, was made to recall the human form.' [from john the posthumous by jason schwartz]

animals have become a central theme in the music that i write: animals that are misshapen, dismembered, sutured together.  these are animals of human creation and degeneration that are without kin; they are learning to walk, learning to speak.

here is a grotesque of five pieces — abscess, abbess, monk, monkfish, lungfish — that possess through-lines to one another, but never to all at once.  they are blunt amalgams of rapid experimentation with little consciousness of their materiality beyond the mutative remnants of each species.  their creation, like their titles, is an extended exquisite corpse game: an always-forward lumbering onward to the next, and connected only by the loosest implications of what came before."

- Kurt Isaacson

Admission: $10/5

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