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.

LIGAMENT
Stefano Pierini – Canzoni al sol (2016)
Lila Meretzky – All mute things (2019)
Beat Furrer – Lotófagos (2006)
“We were in a desert confronted by our own image, which we did not recognize.”
So begin the lotus eaters in José Ángel Valente’s Homeric poem Lotófagos. The narcotic nature of the plant has stripped them of their memories and they are lost, suspended in a world where they cannot even recognize their own faces. And what of them, then, is left behind? The pieces on this program explore these places within us, the quiet corners that we only access in those rare moments when, by losing ourselves, we find something we didn’t know was there. Stefano Pierini’s Canzoni al sol (a play on the Italian word “sol” which means both “sun” and “G”) is an obsessive expansion and contraction of musical material around the pitch ‘G’ as an endless ouroboros of self-discovery and self-denial. The introspection of Meretzky’s All Mute Things is of a kind that secrets itself away, buried behind silence and the longing that silence can produce. “We were in a desert confronted by our own image, which we did not recognize.”
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DANTE + CHIN DUO
Do not touch me, memory
Do not touch me, memory is an interdisciplinary performance created by the Dante + Chin Duo (voice and flute) and visual artist Alexandra Desipris. Using bone flutes, voices, percussive jewelry, three painted narrative scrolls, staging, and costuming, the artists will bring to life the story of a Neolithic tomb in which humans and sea-eagles have been bound in death for over 5,000 years.
The Isbister Cairn, also known as the Tomb of the Eagles, is a Neolithic tomb on the Orkney Islands that was in use for over 800 years. It is replete with mystery: along with the bones of at least 342 human individuals were found the bones of countless white-tailed sea-eagles, a raptor that nested in the cliffs upon which the tomb was built. The bones of the eagles were found buried in the very foundations of the building, as well as nestled among human bones like talismans.

Do not touch me, memory tells the story of this tomb through visual art and music; as well as telling a larger story of the sacred interconnectedness of humanity and the natural world.
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