Re:Sound 5

ABOUT RE:SOUND

Re:Sound is an annual 4-day new and experimental music festival presented by Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP). Traversing the city, concerts take place in some of Cleveland’s most intimate spaces and bring together pioneering local, regional, and national artists, strengthening the new music community in Cleveland and demonstrating the city’s unique qualities that make it an ideal place for new art to flourish.

SUGAR VENDIL
music by Sugar Vendil
Composer-pianist Sugar Vendil will share a set of new autobiographical solo works: Test Site 5: Seedlings, Black Hole, Ritual, Zoe, Bios. These self-reflective pieces are based on her secret childhood memories, meditations of existence, and explore extended piano techniques with electronics.
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MATTHEW JONES
O Black and Unknown Bards
Tenor Matthew Jones performs works by stylistically contrasting living composers, Dolores White and Buck McDaniel, featuring their settings of renowned and lesser-known African American poets. The set opens with White’s dramatic setting of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s We Wear the Mask (2018), followed by her setting of Cleveland poet, James C. Kilgore’s That Black Reef (2003). In collaboration with percussionist Andrew Pongracz and horn player Van Parker, Jones presents chamber works by New York-based composer Buck McDaniel in world premiere arrangements of Richard Wright’s haiku, Charmed Syllables (2019, Rev. 2020) and lesser-known Harlem Renaissance poet Frank Horne’s On Seeing Two Brown Boys In a Catholic Church (2016, rev. 2020).