Dylan Edrich and Jenna Flohr performing on Naama Tsabar's Work on Felt (Variation 2), 2019 (in the exhibition What Matters: A Proposition in Eight Rooms, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 20, 2023); © Naama Tsabar; photo: Tenari Tuatagaloa
Performance on Naama Tsabar’s Work on Felt (Variation 2 and 11)
Experience the synergy of art, sound, and movement in a performance composed by local musicians Dylan Edrich, Jenna Flohr, and artist Naama Tsabar that engages sculptural works from Tsabar’s ongoing series Work on Felt. Tsabar subverts our expectations of seemingly soft sculptures by inserting carbon fiber and epoxy into felt to create a rigid hybrid material that retains the tension of a piano string tethered to a guitar-tuning peg. These artworks defy the place of felt in instruments as a silencer and become the resonating chamber itself.
For this performance at SFMOMA, Edrich, Flohr, and Tsabar explore the various physical movements and sonic possibilities of activating Work on Felt (Variation 2) and Work on Felt (Variation 11) Black. Witness the power of artistic collaboration as these sculptures are transformed into modified string instruments and brought to life in performances that merge contemporary art and music.
This event is presented in partnership with KADIST San Francisco.
PNEUMA
PNMEUMA
Program Notes:
This immersive AV performance invites us to visit our inner child, providing a unique exploration of human authenticity. This experimental immersive experience draws inspiration from various human characteristics, notably instinctual innocence, insecurity, kindness, and perseverance.
PNEUMA also explores the possibilities for storytelling through visual art, electronic and acoustic soundscapes, and genre-blurring improvisational performance.
Roziht Eve - Singer, Electric Cellist, Composer
Jenna Flohr - Violinist, Sound Artist
Santi Grau - Live Coded Visuals
Live Performance at The Planetarium - Oakland, CA
Friday, Sept 29, 2023
In The Shell
Produced and performed by Jenna Flohr
Recorded by Chanho Han
Mixed by David Tippie
Eco vs. Ego
Lyrics, Production, Album Collage Art by Jenna Flohr
Album photography by Dylan Williams
Silent Sequences
Performed by Telegraph String Quartet
San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 2022
Composed by Jenna Flohr
IRCAM Collaboratory Paris : concert de l’atelier d’improvisation / Concert ManiFeste-2022
IRCAM Collaboratory Paris : concert de l’atelier d’improvisation / Concert ManiFeste-2022
Austrian composer Bernhard Lang invites ten improvisers and DJs to join a group of musicians for a workshop on the history and evolution of improvisation. The focus is on the link between written and improvised music and on attempts to balance the two approaches. Every day, a specific theme: free rock, Coltrane, electronics of the 90s, improvisation with the computers of the 2000s, the aesthetics of loops, improvisation with machines, improvisation with texts, the Series VI Games by Bernhard Lang. These sessions, from solo to quartet, are realized using shared musical strategies. Tonight's concert is the direct result.
Bernhard Lang educational advisor
Dimitrios Polisoidis (viola), Gerald Preinfalk (saxophone), Robert Lepenik (guitar), Dieb13 (Dieter Kovačič, electro improv) instructors and performers
Premieres by workshop students
Johan Blixt, Ana Luisa Diaz de Cossio, Jenna Flohr, Jack Herscowitz, Volodia Lambert, Kalun Leung, Li-Chin Li, Samuel Long, Josefa Silva Ibarra, Esther Wu
Bernhard Lang écriture 6 - Premiere 2022
Production IRCAM-Centre Pompidou. With the support of the Sacem and the ULYSSES network, supported by the European Union’s Creative Europe program. IRCAM and the CENTQUATRE-PARIS are partners for experimental performance projects.
Tele-Dimensional
Jenna Flohr: Violin, Vocals, Composer, Producer
Roziht Edwards: Cellist, Singer, Composer
Jack Herscowitz: Computer Improviser
Elijah Lacin: Cello / Improviser
David Tippie: DJ Set
Rob Middleton: Sound Installation Designer
Caleb Smit: Visuals
Recording Production / Engineering: David Tippie, Chanho Han, Garrett Nothern
Lighting: 009 Night
Cinematography / Editing: Dylan Williams
Executive Producer: Jenna Flohr
Laundromat Daydream
Performed for Recombinant Festival at Gray Area, SF
Octophonic Sound and 10 Video Screens
RAge Quit
- .... . / . -. -..
Thumb Wars
Orange Story
Animation by Sylvia Atwood
Eco vs. Ego is a three-phase exploration of the individual versus the overarching ecosystem. This project was in collaboration with the Climate Music Project by utilizing scientific data and translating the urgency of their data through sound. The impact from all of us individually can be seen on a grand scale when viewing the climate crisis. As sea levels rise, many ecosystems will continue to become displaced, as well as harmed due to these drastically changing conditions. In this work, we explore together three different sections that represent the ecosystem before us, the ecosystem during our current condition, and the outcome of the planet reacting to ocean levels rising. The foundation of this work are water samples taken from River Rapids in Atlanta, GA, as well as samples of the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco, CA. Through this coast to coast sound duality, we are connected by the same source. We have the resources to know how this outcome will end; it is ultimately up to us to decide where to go from here.
Violins - Solanch Sosa, Jenna Flohr
Violas - Paulina Flores, Katherine Brown