soundON Festival of Modern Music: The Stories We Tell
curated by Franklin Cox and Christopher Adler
January 10-13, 2019
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library
1008 Wall St, La Jolla, CA

Curators Franklin Cox and Christopher Adler chart the evocative domain between language and music with an adventurous collection of the newest music that is the signature of the annual soundON Festival. Instrumental music with strong narrative elements ranges from Gleb Kanasevich’s contemplative Solo, to Jason Eckardt’s explosive and virtuosic tour-de-force After Serra, to radical deconstructions in a brand new work by Franklin Cox, commissioned by the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library. From guest composers Sungji Hong and Derek Keller, music tells stories with both sound and visual image. And language itself becomes the subject in works by Erin Gee, where the sound of speech is translated into musical sound, and Lei Liang’s Aural Hypothesis which is based on the gestures of Chinese calligraphy. soundON favorite Stephanie Aston returns to perform a duo by Kate Soper, with NOISE flutist Lisa Cella, in which the musical medium explodes language to its fullest expressive potential. And percussionist Morris Palter will perform selections from Christopher Adler’s recent collection of settings of Russian transrational futurist poetry in visually-evocative scores.

The soundON Festival of Modern Music is underwritten by a generous donation from Garna Muller and is supported by a grant from the Ellen Browning Scripps Foundation
Housing for artists is generously provided by Ann Craig and Garna Muller

NOISE
Colin McAllister, guitar and conductor
Lisa Cella, flute
Franklin Cox, cello
Morris Palter, percussion
Robert Zelickman, clarinet
Christopher Adler, piano

SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS
Batya MacAdam-Somer, violin
Annabelle Terbetski, viola
Stephanie Aston, soprano
Jackie Glazier, clarinet
Eric Starr, trombone
Matt Kline, bass
Mari Kawamura, keyboard
Derek Keller, composer and electronics
Sungji Hong, composer

Thursday, January 10, 7:30 p.m.
Erin Gee, Mouthpiece: Segment of the 4th Letter
Christopher Adler, selections from Zaum Box
Gleb Kanasevich, Solo
Alexina Louie, Cadenzas
Jason Eckardt, After Serra

Saturday, January 12, 12:00 p.m.
soundON Workshop Concert
Program TBA
Featuring young composers and performers from San Diego
Admission is free for the soundON Workshop Concert

Saturday, January 12, 7:30 p.m.
Sungji Hong, Lazare veni foras!
Derek Keller, The End Times are a’Changin’
Franklin Cox, Parable ** world premiere

Sunday, January 13, 2:00 p.m.
Kate Soper, only the words themselves mean what they say
James Erber, New Work for clarinet and cello ** world premiere
Christopher Adler, selections from Zaum Box
Lei Liang, Aural Hypothesis

Festival passes: $70 General Admission / $55 Athnaeum Members, seniors / $15 Students
Single night: $25 General Admission / $20 Athnaeum Members, seniors / $5 Students