a•pe•ri•od•ic (51): Forbes Graham
Season Opener: a•pe•ri•od•ic is thrilled to invite Boston-based composer, musician, sound artist, and visual artist FORBES GRAHAM to Chicago for a portrait concert of his works. Graham will perform an opening solo set and the ensemble will join him to premiere a new piece Graham writes for this concert, along with recent compositions.
Program:
Fobes Graham: solo opening set (trumpet and electronics)
a•pe•ri•od•ic
Forbes Graham: 0000...1111 (2023) world premiere/commission
Forbes Graham: Nine (2023)
Forbes Graham: Endured, Enduring (2023)
$15 / $10 w/ Student ID - Tickets Available at the Door
Artist Bios
Forbes Graham (b. 1977) is a composer, musician, sound artist, and visual artist whose work explores themes of simultaneity, perceptibility, transformation and collage. The piece For Sam Gilliam I, meant to be a tribute to the pioneering painter as well as a meditation on color, was premiered by loadbang in 2022. Earlier that year, [Switch~ Ensemble] premiered Inflection: Beacon Hill/Roxbury, which was commissioned by a LAB Grant from The Boston Foundation. Inflection: Beacon Hill/Roxbury, was written in honor of the migration of the last African American institution to leave Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood, the Charles Street AME Church. The Overlook Quartet performed his string quartet Crossing in 2021 at Mass MoCA amongst Linda Sormin's installation Stream. In 2020, he was selected to work with the JACK Quartet as a part of JACK Studio. The JACK Quartet premiered String Quartet no. 3 that year, which was dedicated to LaToya Ruby Frazier. His work Encounters I for trumpet, electronics, and voices premiered at Roulette in 2019. He performed with Michael Pisaro at (the) co-incidence festival in 2017 and has appeared at other music festivals including High Zero, Vision, and The Thing In The Spring. Graham has appeared on over 40 albums, primarily on trumpet, but also on electronics and vocals. He is a member of Mobius Artists Group, a collective of experimenting artists. He has studied composition with Eric Wubbels, Julia Werntz, and Chaya Czernowin.
a•pe•ri•od•ic is an intersectional, member-run ensemble producing concerts of experimental music that encourage focused listening. The ensemble carefully selects creative work by local and international artists of all genders whose works take diverse approaches to composition. The collaborative creation process among the ensemble members and with the featured composers challenges conventional ideas of power relationships in “classical” music-making: each work is an exploratory process encouraging new technique with both traditional and unconventional instruments and probing the relationship between notated and improvised sound.