Eighth Blackbird & Sleeping Giant – Hand Eye – Apr. 30, 2016

Hand Eye

Saturday, April 30, 2016; 8PM
Free pre-show chat at 7:15PM
The Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2^nd Floor)

Hand Eye brings together a musical dream team: multi-Grammy winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird, and superstar composer sextet Sleeping Giant unite for an evening length work fizzing with the alchemy of twelve strong personalities. Hand Eye transports us to a soul-studded jam session (Ted Hearne), the buzzing contagion of an internet meme (Andrew Norman), a high velocity adventure-ride (Robert Honstein), a shimmering yet blinding landscape (Christopher Cerrone), the flickering and pulsing of ink on paper (Timo Andres), and a warm, but tattered beauty (Jacob Cooper).

“Eighth Blackbird play like musicians possessed… they take wing, soaring on an upthrust of precision-tooled virtuosity.” – BBC, London

Program:
Hand Eye (2015)
Christopher Cerrone: South Catalina
Andrew Norman: Mine, Mime, Meme
Robert Honstein: Conduit [touchpulsesend]
Timo Andres: Checkered Shade
Ted Hearne: ByBy Huey
Jacob Cooper: Cast

HAND EYE from Eighth Blackbird on Vimeo.

eighthblackbird.org
sleepinggiantcomposers.com

Hand Eye was commissioned by the Stuart and Maxine Frankel Foundation for the Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival and co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall.

Photo by Saverio Truglia.