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Iron Giant Free Association @ East Village Arts
October 10, 2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
FreeBirmingham Art Music Alliance and East Village Arts present
Iron Giant Free Association
Thursday, October 10, 2024 at 7:30PM
East Village Arts of Birmingham
7611 1st Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35206
Free Admission
Iron Giant Free Association premieres new music by local composers in boundary-stretching performance.
Iron Giant has worked with members of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance to create a group of flexible compositions that reward creative investment from performers and audiences alike. The details of each piece are changeable, so the sounds differ from performance to performance. This is the first concert of a series of programs, with the following compositions receiving their world premiere.
- Iron Segments – Michael Coleman
- Armature – Monroe Golden / Iron Giant
- as reflected in the glimmer of the black pond – Holland Hopson
- differance – Mark Lackey
- Thus Spoke the Giant – Joseph Landers
- Versicles for Aries – Kyle McGucken
- Improvisation – LaDonna Smith / Iron Giant
This activity is supported by Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Iron Giant Free Association evolved from Iron Giant Percussion, with the quartet of founders — Sam Herman, Brett Huffman, Seth Noble, and Justin Wallace — remaining as core members. Established in 2011 and based in Birmingham (AL), the ensemble has performed alongside artists such as Sō Percussion, Third Coast Percussion, Glenn Kotche of Wilco, and Norman Westberg of Swans. Iron Giant has collaborated with many Alabama music & arts mainstays including the Birmingham Art Music Alliance, Sanspointe Dance Company, John Scalici, and the UAB Percussion Ensemble. Their eclectic vocabulary of chamber music, ambient, noise, and post rock, combined with meditative improvisatory sensibilities makes for a listening experience both cerebral and visceral.
The Birmingham Art Music Alliance (BAMA) is a nonprofit organization with the twofold mission of promoting music by Alabama composers and presenting concerts of recently created art music to communities in Birmingham and beyond. Members include local composers, professional performers, students, and enthusiasts who wish to preserve and maintain the long tradition of music as a living art form.
East Village Arts is a membership based co-operative of artists, musicians, and patrons, who believe that diversity and collective creativity is the strength of a healthy community.
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