Come experience the endlessly entrancing solo violin performance of Austin Larkin – textures merge into silence merge into space. The slow shifting harmonies and harmonics create a hypnotically engaging environment where the violin becomes the space it is situated in.
Opening for the night will be a stellar new trio from the Peabody Improvisers Collective, Sophie Rollover – Forrest Wentzel (bass, electronics), Sarah Parker (augmented saxophone), and Michael Begay (guitar, electronics) – making their Red Room debut.
Austin Larkin is a composer primarily working with violin, bells, and sirens. His performance and practice is informed by research into dimensions of vibrating bodies. Larkin’s solo violin performance situates the violin as an instrument to accentuate space, rather than to fill space. Within this space, the violin renders a continuously unfolding structure of interlocking harmonic shapes and temporal patterns. With his custom bell instruments, the experience of ringing is expanded to energize the resonance of architecture and the cochlea. Through these instruments, we hear sound is not separate from space, sound is space.
