A Circle.

A Circle is a space of connection across disciplines, practices, and aesthetics. It is a structure for incubation, performance, and documentation for the artists, performers, and scholars convened by singer and collaborative artist, Andrew Munn.

Performance Ready
Berlin Verses, Jacob Greenberg, Adam Rothenberg, Jordan Freeman
Adaptations of Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht's Hollywooder Liederbuch. A political transposition of their reflection on fascism, capitalism, exile, and war into the complex web of complicity, privilege, and oppression at the heart of contemporary ecological and social questions.
voice, piano, and projections.

Michelangelo and the Moderns, Julia Modes
Composed in 1974, Shostakovich set eleven sonnets of Michelangelo to create a song cycle that meditates on art, love, power, legacy, and mortality. In this program of music and discourse, the cycle is framed by an art historical lecture by Julia Modes, tracing the themes of Michelangelo's poems and art as they reappear in the abstract visual art of the American artist Cy Twombly.
voice, piano, art historian, projections

Unname, Ira Hadžić

A voice-gong-being band of improvised non-linear sound creations that escape the definition of words.
gong, voice, time, space

In Development
postWinterreise, Kat Austen, Jacob Greenberg
Schubert's Winterreise and its story of individual loss and transformation becomes a duet with an evolving soundscape of a changed climate and ecology, composed by Kat Austen.
voice, piano, electronics, projections, ice

Anthropocene, Nina C Young
A meditation on the Anthropocene, composed by Nina C. Young on texts by Andrew Munn and Antonio Stoppani. Part ritual, cycle, drama, an intimate reflection on the geologic scale of the human footprint.
voice, electronics, TBD

Season, Conrad Winslow
Season is the working title for a song cycle by the Alaskan composer Conrad Winslow. Winslow set the poem A Certain Kind of Eden by Kay Ryan, for Andrew and Jacob in 2023. A song cycle in cyclical time and growth began.
voice, piano

In Concept
Exile, Alla Gutnikova

Exile is the working title for a song cycle on the poetry of Alla Gutnikova. Imagined as a companion/counter-piece for Shostakovich's Suite on Verses by Michelangelo, the cycle deals with exile, power, political violence and identity.

Rupture, Andile Khumalo
a song cycle on the poetry of Ishion Hutchinson, exploring the legacy of white supremacy's construction of racial hierarchies within colonized populations.
voice and chamber ensemble