Game Night
Synchromy, the L.A. composer collective, teams up with Autoduplicity for an evening of musical games and games that make music. A concert of world premieres that includes everything from pattycake to trivia, and bouncing balls to video games.
The Program
Sean Griffin: Pattycake
Carolyn Chen: Good Work, for 2 people*
Isaac Schankler: The Two-Body Problem*
Tim Parkinson: Time With People, Op. 1
Cassia Streb: Game Time
John White: Drinking and Hooting Machine
*denotes a world premiere
The Artist
Autoduplicity is Jennifer Bewerse and Rachel Beetz, a cellist and flutist dedicated to performing contemporary and avant-garde music. Rachel and Jennifer created Autoduplicity to explore performance beyond sound-making for highly trained instrumentalists, to explore musical ideas and the bodies that inhabit them, and to find what this exploration might illuminate when done as a duo. Their concerts are carefully constructed as musical, ideological, political, or theoretical explorations probing themes of blurred identities and realities, the physicality of sound, the movements of our bodies, and the rhythms of our speech
As a result of their first concert project – an exploration of music for performing bodies – Autoduplicity was invited to the inaugural New Music Gathering to give a presentation on theatricality and perform their feminist interpretation of Vinko Globokar’s ?Corporel. Their Machaut+Rauschen project is a continuous performance juxtaposing experimental arrangements of Guillaume de Machaut’s ballade, “Dame, ne regardez pas” with several of Peter Ablinger’s Instrumente und Rauschen and the world premiere of Ablinger’s WEISS / WEISSLICH 17k: Violoncello und Rauschen for solo cello and electronics, and was described by Peter Ablinger as an “amazing program” and “beautiful combination.” In 2016, Autoduplicity traveled to Iceland where they performed Machaut+Rauschen at Mengi in Reykjavik and gave a lecture for the Performance Department of Iceland Academy of the Arts. REFLECTING, commissioned by the wasteLAnd concert series, explores different kinds of musical reflection. Throughout the program’s pieces, the performers’ bodies touch, imitate, sense, and are mirrored in physical and virtual spaces. Their most recent project, Frames, was created for Dog Star 14 and featured compositions by Catherine Lamb, Carolyn Chen, and Celeste Oram.
Autoduplicity’s projects have additionally been presented at ArtShare (Los Angeles), Boston Court (Pasadena), the Center for New Music (San Francisco), UC Santa Barbara, the MorYork Gallery (Los Angeles) as part of Dog Star Festival 12, and UC San Diego’s Springfest, and have been awarded funding from the University of California, San Diego Dean of Arts and Humanities and Music Department. In 2016, they were artists-in-residence at the Women’s International Study Center, where they worked with Celeste Oram on a new commission.
