Scott L. Miller, Jane Rigler, Tessa Brinckman

DIRT FREQUENCIES

TESSA BRINCKMAN and JANE RIGLER: flutes, electronics, and miscellanea
SCOTT L. MILLER: Kyma and Onde resonator

Dirt Frequencies is a collaboratively composed, concert-length work. It combines electroacoustic music, text, and Deep Listening®, inviting the audience into the sonic environment, responding to their present body, dreams, and imagination.

Based on the growing processes of a garden, this concert is part of an on-going series that develops over time. Sound sources being dispersed will emerge from present sounds as well as those we’ve collected from the earth and all the microbial organisms living in the soil. We consider all the bodies that release and absorb sound—the land, the water, the air, plants, and human-made materials, and our bodies—as sound sources. Water is the tissue that connects us between these processes.

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Interdisciplinary flutist/composer TESSA BRINCKMAN has been praised for her “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone). Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, her work honors synesthesia, dialect, innate meter, and collaboration. Tessa co-directs the bi-coastal duo, Caballito Negro, commissioning ground-breaking work for flute and percussion.

JANE RIGLER, flutist/composer/educator/organizer and Deep Listening® facilitator, explores the complexities of language (of the body, dream, landscape) through the flute, electronics, voice, and movement. A former interdisciplinary music Professor at the University of Colorado, she continues to perform world-wide, organizing sound spas, and arts-wellness events.

Minnesota composer/improviser SCOTT L. MILLER’s music is defined by an experimental aesthetic, collaborative approaches to composition and performance, and the use of electronic sound. In addition to being a Professor of music at St. Cloud State University, he is Director of SEAMUS Records.