Thursday October 27

The Nouveau Classical Project: “From the Margins, This, Unmentioned”

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The Nouveau Classical Project will perform composer Bryan Senti’s From the Margins, This, Unmentioned, a multimedia work featuring music, video, poetry and fashion. The original poem that inspired the work will be present throughout the music and recited by the author, Kat Mandeville. Video installations by art collective Satan’s Pearl Horses will accompany the performance. Fashion by Swedish designer Maja Gunn was created for From the Margins and will be worn by the musicians, making the performers themselves a visual component of the story. This sensually provocative multimedia work tells a story of a troubled girl’s personal search for identity and redemption in a complex and oppressive world. Isolation and depression, as well as sexuality, spirituality, social class and rural life, are explored both literally and metaphorically.

From The Margins, This, Unmentioned from Satan’s Pearl Horses on Vimeo. 

The Nouveau Classical Project (NCP) is a music group that merges modern classical music and fashion through interdisciplinary projects. Musicians’ garments are styled by fashion designers, who base their inspiration on the music NCP performs. NCP offers an exciting way to experience classical music that will satisfy cultural omnivores. www.nouveauclassical.org

Bryan Senti – A graduate of the Yale School of Music, Bryan has scored numerous films, as well as composed dance works, rock songs, and body of concert of music. He was Rufus Wainwright’s lead assistant on both his opera, Prima Donna as well as his collaboration with Robert Wilson, Sonnets, a production he also composed original music for. Bryan has been commissioned by Lisa Moore of Bang on a Can, the Norfolk Music Festival and Carnegie Mellon University, among others. Film credits include Lee Isaa Chung’s latest feature Lucky Life, featured in the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. In 2006, Bryan co-founded Found Objects Music Productions with fellow composers Trevor Gureckis and Jay Wadley. www.bryansenti.com

Satan’s Pearl Horses – Since forming at Carnegie Mellon University seven years ago, they have created films, installations, and interactive performances, often reaching beyond the framework of one genre, referencing multiple mediums in the same breadth. www.satanspearlhorses.com

Through experimentation (and plenty of play), SPH has set out to create an ever-evolving body of work through their free-associative and improvisational approach to art. Their continued friendship and artistic ambition underlie the principle of SPH: collaboration and creation.

Maja Gunn is a fashion and costume designer. She has a MFA in Textile & Fashion Design from Konstfack, University College of Art Craft and Design, Stockholm and a Master in Fashion studies, Stockholm University. She has also studied Fashion Design at HKU, Holland. Maja has worked with costumes for several companies and projects, including Swedish Television (SVT), Royal Dramatic Theatre (Stockholm), MacArthur Dance Project (New York) and a varied of independent film and theatre projects. Her experience in fashion ranges from companies like H&M, Marc Jacobs and Diane von Furstenberg to collections under her own line. The collections under her own line draw from strong conceptual ideas often combined with other elements such as text, film and performance. In her works there is consistently an investigation into and elaboration upon the connection between clothes, body and identity. www.majagunn.com

$15 in advance | $20 at the door General Admission