On Sunday, December 8, PMA Professor Mendi Obadike and AAP Professor Keith Obadike will have selections from their score Big House/Disclosure performed by Either/Or, a flexible chamber ensemble based in New York City.
Either/Or continues its Fall season with Transpositions: Music by Anthony Braxton & Mendi + Keith Obadike at the recently opened Brooklyn venue Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew. They present an evening of works that situate the players and audience in a charged dialog between notation and improvisation, featuring Anthony Braxton's pivotal Composition No. 98 (1981) for quartet and selections from Mendi + Keith Obadike's graphic score collection Big House/Disclosure (2007).
To start the evening, the quartet will revisit Mendi + Kieth Obadike's Big House/Disclosure, the fecundated collection of graphic scores “...inspired by Nigerian nsibidi writing, European music notation, and architectural drawings” first performed by EO in May 2023. Big House/Disclosure, the inaugural work in the Obadike's ongoing series of multimedia works entitled The Americana Suites, is an intermedia suite commissioned by Northwestern University for the 200th anniversary (1807-2007) of the abolition of the British Slave Trade.
Performers include James Fei (woodwinds), Johnathan Finlayson (trumpets), Richard Carrick (piano), and Chris McIntyre (trombones, euphonium).
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