Soprano: Amber Evans 

fac ut ardeat| (2018) was commissioned by Amber Evans and the Cortona Collective for New Music. I met Amber over the summer while at the Cortona Sessions for New Music in Italy, and over the course of the festival became friends and collaborators.

The title, fac ut ardeat|, comes not from the Sabat Mater but instead comes from a description of an inscribed fireplace in Rachel Kushner’s book, The Flamethowers, and roughly translates to, “made to burn.” This idea of violent disposability is integral to the work; as each line of text is sung, each gesture is consumed by a series of live delays and disintegrates each line of text to make room for the following events, leaving behind smoldering remains.

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Lisa Atkinson (b.1992) is a Chicago-based composer whose work endeavors to explore interiority through the tactile, visceral nature of live-performance and the emotional context of gesture while examining issues of fragility, memory, timbre, time, and perception.

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ACOUSTIC AND   ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC  COMPOSER .
STUDIED  COMPOSITION WITH  SERGIU  NATRA .
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC  MUSIC  WITH YIZHAK  SADAI .
PIANO  --  WITH  PNINA  SALZMAN  , BART  BERMAN  , AVI  SCHONFELD .
CONTEMPORARY CLASSIC  COMPOSER , ACOUSTIC ,
ELECTRONIC AND  ELECTROACOUSTIC   MUSIC , 
EXPERIMENTAL  MUSIC . SOUND  ARTIST .
IMPROVISATION AND INTUITIVE MUSIC .
PIANIST .
ACCORDION AND  RECORDER  PLAYER .
FOUNDED  AND  CURATED    2  SERIES  OF  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC  MUSIC   IN TEL AVIV  ,  ISRAEL  -- 
 " NIGHT  HAPPENING -  FORUM FOR EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC "    1986  -  2007
" OTHER  ISRAELI  MUSIC "      1985   -  1987
MANY COLLABORATIONS  WITH  POETS , ACTORS , DANCERS ,  PAINTERS ,
 VIDEO ARTISTS , PERFORMANCE  ARTISTS .
MORE THAN  120  PREMIERS  OF  NEW  CONTEMPORARY  CLASSIC MUSIC - 
ACOUSTIC , ELECTROACOUSTIC , MULTI-MEDIA  --  WERE  PRESENTED
IN  HIS  SERIES DURING  23  YEARS OF ACTIVITY .
HIS  MUSIC WAS  PERFORMED  IN  EUROPE , CANADA , USA .
WON  VARIOUS GRANTS AND PRIZES .

fac ut ardeat|

Lisa Atkinson | Composer