About This Show

MATA’s penultimate concert reimagines tradition and genre, pointing the way toward new musical taxonomies. Sabina Ahn’s alchemical Breath morphs the body’s energy into light and sound. Nicolai Worsaae’s Upon your body I’m crawling exhausts its performer – the legendary William Schimmel – as it engages with folk and modern conventions in a breathless one-man accordion-harmonica duet. Traditional instruments are transformed with rippling figurations and angular melody in Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets’ duet Re-Pulse, and similarly in Qian Zhou’s serene Qu Shui Ming Yun. Mátyás Wettl’s Unusual, proposes a new avant-indie sound, while Germán Alonso’s Time In & Out, pays homage to jazz icon Eric Dolphy.