What if you could hear the relationship between the built and natural worlds?
From Chicago-based ensemble Beyond This Point, Reclaimed Timber is a sonic portrait of US cities’ unique histories and relationships with their natural environments.
Reclaimed Timber, an original production from Chicago ensemble Beyond This Point, asks just this question. Six percussionists play on six pieces of wood for an entire hour, allowing hypnotic rhythms and undulating waves of sound to crest and fall into each other. The planks of wood came directly from trees in the surrounding area, and each piece reveals more and more complexity – more tones, more timbres, and more history – over the course of Reclaimed Timber.
Beyond This Point is collaborating with local artists to source the wood for this performance of Reclaimed Timber– whether they be charred from fire, felled to make way for development, or desiccated from drought. As these pieces of the natural world are imbued with a “voice” through Reclaimed Timber, they seem to pose more questions than statements:
Who decides the value of the natural world?
What pieces of our history are worth keeping?
How can we use our past to build our future?
Accompanying the sounds of the wood is a reactive lighting installation made from over 5000 LEDs and over 200 paper lantern “houses”. The lights respond in real-time to the strikes on the wood, reflecting the rhythms and waves of sound as flashes and waves of ambient light.
Presented by the Interference Series in collaboration with NAU Percussion Studies, NAU Honors College, and the McAllister CEED (Climate, Education, Engagement, and Design) Program at NAU. Made possible with generous support from John & Lynn Sheik.
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Thank you to Americana Motor Hotel, our lodging partner for visiting artists and performers.
