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CompFest 2025: In Our Own House ft. Bent Frequency & Alvin Singleton
February 7 @ 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
FreeCompFest 2025 “In Our Own House” looks local to explore building creative arts community within and around Emory. The Festival features Atlanta-based new music ensemble Bent Frequency and composer Alvin Singleton. Each of the works on the Festival program were selected for the different ways they could build community as an experimental art practice. Singleton’s chamber quartet In Our Own House, whose title inspired the Festival theme, opens the first night’s concert. It invites a question: what is “our” house?
This past Fall, Bent Frequency worked with six Emory student composers in an extended residency to create a suite of miniatures. These will be presented on the first night’s concert, which also includes Emory Professor Dwight Andrews’ Three Baldwin Poems (sung by the brilliant Maria Clark, Emory Artist Affiliate in voice) and Paresthesia, a new electronic piece by Emory Assistant Professor Adam Mirza.
Program includes:
Alvin Singleton, In Our Own House for soprano sax, trumpet, snare drum, piano performed by Bent Frequency
Alvin Singleton, Argoru VII for vibraphone performed by Bent Frequency
Dwight Andrews, Three Baldwin Poems for soprano and piano performed by Bent Frequency with Maria Clark (soprano)
Adam Mirza, Paresthesia for stereo fixed audio
Emory Student Composers, Suite for saxophone and percussion performed by Bent Frequency