Charlotte Mundy and Madison Greenstone
CHARLOTTE MUNDY
performing Morton Feldman, Three Voices (for voice and tape)
MADISON GREENSTONE
Performing exstatic resonancies
sunday, march 22, 2025, at 8pm
First Church in Jamaica Plain (Parish Hall)
6 Eliot Street, Jamaica Plain
Doors: 7:30pm, Music: 8pm
Admission: $15 general / $10 for members and students
(No one turned away for lack of funds)
For information about accessibility call the church at 617-221-3059 or email susanna@nonevent.org.
About the program & artists
Charlotte Mundy is a Toronto-born, Brooklyn-based vocalist, who studied classical voice at the University of Toronto, contemporary performance at the Manhattan School of Music, and is working toward a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at the CUNY Graduate Center. As a founding member of TAK ensemble, “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), Mundy has performed at Lincoln Center and the Library of Congress, premiering works by Tyshawn Sorey, Erin Gee, Eric Wubbels, Brandon Lopez, and Natacha Diels. As a soloist, Mundy’ recently performed in the world premiere of site specific opera Newtown Odyssey by Kurt Rohde and Marie Lorenz; a solo recital at The Americas Society; premieres of concert works by Francisco del Pino, Alyssa Regent and Aida Shirazi, and the debut of a new collaborative multimedia project with Christian Quiñones.
About Three Voices
Three Voices is a 1982 composition by Morton Feldman, written in homage to his friends Philip Guston and Frank O’Hara, and dedicated to the singer Joan La Barbara, who premiered the work. This year is the 100th anniversary of Feldman’s birth.
Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist and improviser based between Brooklyn and Berlin. Their solo practice explores material and spatial expressivities of sustained sound through richly noisy timbral actions. Recently their work explores dreamlike acoustic mirages, spatial interferences of difference tones and beating, and draws inspiration from fiction writer Yoko Tawada's proposition that there is no such thing as a room with a fixed size.
About exstatic resonancies
exstatic resonances are wild acoustic phenomena created by indeterminacies within the clarinet’s timbre. Madison’s practice draws on a deep study of the polyphonic qualities of the clarinet, a traditionally monophonic instrument, and explores sonorities that sound outside of themselves, with highly spatial, sculptural, and disorienting qualities. They embrace difference tones, psychoacoustic phenomena, and all the unruly irreducibilities within the clarinet to create an acoustic identity that fractures its own singularity. With sustained circular breathing, they link a mysticism of repetition with the inherent variance latent therein.
