Forest in a City
Presented by SEAMUS, Bent Frequency
And Hosted by Dr. Adam Mirza
Eyedrum Art and Music Gallery
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 8:00 pm
With doors opening 7:45 and pre-concert soundscape
Forest in a City is a sound installation and immersive performance using wooden speaker-objects and featuring live performances by members of Atlanta new music ensemble Bent Frequency. The event imagines a new urban soundscape, a heterogenous combination of works and audio artifacts by SEAMUS composers that reflect on the nature of ongoing development within cities like Atlanta (“the city in a forest”).
The installation appears as an indoor “forest” of 8 wooden panels used as speaker-objects spread around the performance space. These panels were made by local Atlanta luthier, DJ Betsill, using wood from an 800-year-old “Sinker Cyprus” log found preserved in a swamp on the Georgia coast. Similar to John Cage’s Musicircus, multiple pieces (acoustic and electronic), will be played simultaneously in the gallery space. We are inspired by Giorgio Magnanensi’s current practice using wooden panels with transducers (giorgiomagnanensi.com/soundgarden-2022), as well as David Tudor’s Rainforest IV and Janet Cardiff’s The Forty Part Motet.
Special Thanks to Daniel Lickteig for carpentry, technical design, and audio/visual assistance
Concept: Adam Mirza, Jan Berry Baker, and Stuart Gerber
The composers featured are:
David George Haskell
Alex Christie
Daniel Smith
Iddo Aharony
Giorgio Magnanensi
Kerrith Livengood
Jeremy Castro Baguyos
Daniel Karcher
Holland Hopson
Kittie Cooper
Garrison Gerard
Nicholas Cline
Adam Mirza
John Moeller
Scott L. Miller
“This program is supported in part by the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, and the Amphion Foundation.