Collaborative concert between Nevermind the Noise and HYPERCUBE. Digital concert premiered February 3, 2021.

HYPERCUBE has built a reputation on high-energy performances with impressive execution. The NYC-based quartet embraces the boundaries of chamber music, featuring cutting-edge works for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion, while spanning electric and acoustic worlds. From championing original works such as Louis Andriessen’s Hout, Philippe Hurel’s Localized Corrosion, and Chaya Czernowin’s Sahaf, to commissioning new works by composers Nicholas Deyoe, Farzia Fallah, Eric Wubbels, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Daniel Tacke, Erin Rogers, Amin Sharifi, Nomi Epstein, Christopher Adler, and Juan Trigos, HYPERCUBE has collaborated with composers such as Sam Pluta and Chris Cerrone, to freshly adapt works for the quartet. HYPERCUBE is Erin Rogers (saxophones), Jay Sorce (classical & electric guitar), Andrea Lodge (piano & accordion), and Chris Graham (percussion).

Hypercube x Nevermind the Noise

Refraction: the fact or phenomenon of light, radio waves, etc. being deflected in passing obliquely through the interface between one medium and another or through a medium of varying density.

The musical DNA of this piece is grounded and constant throughout. The material itself does not change, yet the manner in which it is explored and the transformations it undergoes all encompass the concept of this piece. The initial tone is stretched into a cluster sonority that later informs all aspects of the proceeding material including the rhythmic, noise, and harmonic aspects of the piece. Each section is conceptually a new medium the original material passes through. My hope is that the listener is able to discern the expansive alterations as they occur and recall past events that may have evolved into greater significance, essentially following the material through this journey of refraction.

Refraction (saxophone quartet)

This song, written as a sort of apology letter to an old friend, is one of my first excursions into the singer-songwriter genre. Heavy musical influences include jazz, a style made familiar to me by my father and whose harmonic language I find most expressive, as well as contemporary broadway, whose combination of popular music forms and theatre never cease to touch my heart in a profoundly beautiful manner. 

Recorded live by the composer: April 22, 2018

To an old friend—

Yaz Lancaster: badhead (2020)

written for Hypercube's residency with Nevermind the Noise Collective @ NYU / recorded @ Scholes Street Studio / premiered on 3 February 2021

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I've experienced chronic insomnia for several years. This piece was written following a sleepless night, and attempts to capture the hazy and disorienting but familiar feeling of the middle of the day feeling later than nighttime.

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Hypercube is:
Erin Rogers, saxophones
Jay Sorce, guitars (& banjo!)
Chris Graham, percussion
Andrea Lodge, keys

badhead

"Resonator" accentuates the resonant qualities of Hypercube's instrumentation, accumulating a cloud of droning overtones above a fast and rhythmic quartet. While much of my music consists of long-form unfolding processes, this music is full of abrupt interruptions, inspired by Tony Conrad's essay "A Few Remarks Before I Begin": "Attention needs guideposts for focus. Exploration of alternative attentiveness is a valuable cultural commodity."

HYPERCUBE is:
Chris Graham: percussion
Andrea Lodge: piano
Erin Rogers: saxophone
Jay Sorce: guitar

Resonator (Hypercube)

I think Genre can be used as a technique. That's it. That's the piece.

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performed by Hypercube - http://www.hypercubemusic.org/

Genre is a Technique

shiver // shimmer // shatter
Performed by Hypercube

shiver // shimmer // shatter

Performed by Hypercube Ensemble

A musical catharsis of the times in which 2020 has made us all want to scream.

Two Thousand Times I've Screamed (2020)

Nevermind the Noise is New York University's graduate composer collective, committed to the composition and performance of new, experimental music throughout NYC.

Genre is a Technique

Evan O. Adams

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