Photo: Katja Illner
Princeton Sound Kitchen presents
Natalie Dietterich: ‘Composition for Separated Musicians’ for Felix Kindermann’s ‘Choir Piece’
In staging a choir as a moving sculpture, artist Felix Kindermann’s ‘Choir Piece’ questions the disrupted zeitgeist of our society in the tension between individuality and collectivity. Through rearrangement, fragmentation, and techniques of acoustic distortion, the work creates a sense of alienation. ‘Choir Piece’ destabilizes the cohesive appearance and effect of the choir as a familiar cultural asset of collectivity, blurring boundaries that are dissolved by playing with harmony and disharmony.
Princeton graduate student composer Natalie Dietterich’s score ‘Composition for Separated Musicians,’ commissioned specifically for this work, applies Kindermann’s expansive intervention of separation to the coherent structure of the ensemble so that its harmony is preserved. Using Kindermann’s text, Dietterich’s composition allows for a permanent spatial modulation of the separated singers, who remain connected by acoustic set pieces. While the sound of the voices fills the volume of the exhibition space, the themes of separation and connection are translated into choreographic movements that extend throughout the entire architecture.
Composition by
Natalie Dietterich
Work by
Felix Kindermann
Performed by
Vinroy Brown
Gabriel Crouch
Noah Daniel
Kennedy Dixon
Matthew Iati
Pamela Stein Lynde
Tim Manley
Matthew Marinelli
Madeleine Murnick
Priya Naphade
Rupert Peacock
Kathryn Radakovich
Allison Spann
Lisa Stein
Tyler Tejada
Shruti Venkat
Location: The Forum, Lewis Arts Complex, Princeton University
Ticketing: Free admission
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Start Time: 8:00 p.m.
Program
Natalie Dietterich
Composition for Separated Musicians
for
Felix Kindermann’s
Choir Piece
Vinroy Brown, bass; Gabriel Crouch, tenor; Noah Daniel, tenor; Kennedy Dixon, alto; Matthew Iati, tenor; Pamela Stein Lynde, soprano; Tim Manley, bass; Madeleine Murnick, soprano; Priya Naphade, alto; Matthew Marinelli, bass; Rupert Peacock, bass; Kathryn Radakovich, soprano; Allison Spann, soprano; Lisa Stein, alto; Tyler Tejada, tenor; Shruti Venkat, alto.