Current: Music for String Quartet and Electronica

125 Meeting Street,Charleston SC 29401

21 August, 2022

Description

The sounds of our modern world and those of centuries past flow together in this program of electroacoustic music. Steve Reich uses recorded speech to generate melody and rhythm in a string quartet that explores the wildly different journeys taken by train before, during, and after WWII. Mason Bates finds a funky groove that seamlessly blends the warmth of a live string quartet with prerecorded sounds and electronics. Steve Reich — Different Trains Mason Bates — Bagatelles