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Music from Border Towns
HERE presents Border Towns from Nick Brooke/The Cabinet
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If you traveled to a town, and started asking “what’s listened to here?” — where would you end up? A collision of recordings from the borders, Border Towns melds musical sampling, live singing and theater into a genre all its own. Yodels, anthems, ambient sounds and fringe broadcasts are layered in lockstep with seven performers, who mimic sampled collages of sound effects, pop songs and musical ephemera. With myopic precision and a sprawling map of sound, Border Towns reconstructs musical Americana one town at a time while exploring how locality is conveyed through music.With music and sound as the driving force, this production journeys through the psychological landscape of the U.S., creating a theatrical reflection on recording, location and culture.
Border Towns features performers from The Cabinet: Laura Bohn, Michael Chinworth, Laryssa Husiak, Kamala Sankaram, Laura Stinger, Dax Valdes and Ricardo Vazquez.
In his approach to theater, Nick Brooke blurs the line between recording and live performance. His work Tone Test received its premiere at Lincoln Center Festival in 2004, where it drew media attention for its innovative aesthetic. His works have been performed across the U.S. and in Europe, and featured at the Lincoln Center Festival, Mass MoCA, the Spoleto Festival and the MATA Series.
Border Towns plays September 10 – 18 as follows: Tuesday through Sunday at 9:00 PM. Tickets are $18.00 and can be purchased at www.here.org or by calling (212) 352-3101.