Meredith Monk (photo by Christine Alicino) and John Hollenbeck (photo by Mercedes Jelinek) will present virtual duet on October 28
Who: Meredith Monk, John Hollenbeck, Brett Littman
What: Virtual performance and Q&A
Where: Noguchi Museum and Zoom
When: Wednesday, October 28, free, 8:00
Why: Multidisciplinary avant-garde artist Meredith Monk and composer and percussionist John Hollenbeck celebrate ten years of collaboration between the Noguchi Museum and Bang on a Can with the special online presentation Duet Behavior 2020. The show, streaming for free October 28 at 8:00, features excerpts in which Monk and Hollenbeck improvise on pieces from throughout Monk’s fifty-plus-year career, reimagining familiar and unfamiliar works. They have been working together since 1998; Hollenbeck has appeared in Monk’s Magic Frequencies, mercy, impermanence, Songs of Ascension, and On Behalf of Nature in addition to recording several of their compositions on his own. New York City native Monk will be playing from upstate New York and Hollenbeck from Montreal, using Zoom for the visuals and Jamulus for the audio, produced by the House Foundation for the Arts. The premiere will be followed by a Zoom Q&A with the two creators and Noguchi Museum director Brett Littman.