Tonight: March 18, 2018 at 8 PM
Automata presents
theWorld Premiere of Daniel Corral’s POLYTOPE
Automata is excited to present the world premiere of Los Angeles-based composer Daniel Corral's Polytope. This premiere will be followed by a west coast tour with performances in Seattle on March 23 and San Francisco on March 25.
Polytope is a multimedia musical performance for microtonal MIDI quartet, fitting somewhere between a string quartet, Kraftwerk, James Turrell, and an Indonesian dhalang (master shadow puppeteer). Performed entirely in darkness, it’s a mesmerizing dance of silhouettes of fingers over colorful glowing buttons, captured on live feed video and projected large and bright as an evolving visual score. Polytope is rhythmically charged in the vein of musical minimalists such as Phillip Glass, Steve Reich, or Arnold Dreyblatt, but harmonically inspired by the microtonal explorations of James Tenney, Erv Wilson, or Harry Partch. Polytope will be performed by Erin Barnes, Cory Beers, Daniel Corral and Andrew Lessman.
About Daniel Corral
Born and raised in Eagle River, Alaska, Daniel Corral’s work defies classification at every turn. His unique voice finds outlet in accordion orchestras, handmade music boxes, post-punk opera, electronic collages, puppetry, site-specific installations, chamber music, and inter-disciplinary collaborations. Corral is musical director for Timur and The Dime Museum, leads experimental accordion orchestra Free Reed Conspiracy, and is composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts.
Daniel Corral Website: http://spinalfrog.com
Daniel Corral on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/spinalfrog
Polytope Facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/152598178788129/