Nomads, a new large ensemble work by George Lewis, enjoys its world premiere on May 3 at Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik. Nomads is a flexible-instrumentation, situational-form work that can be performed by any combination of eight or more instruments. In its premiere performance, Nomads features sheng soloist Wu Wei alongside other members of the Trickster Orchestra—an innovative collective drawing in performers from a wide range of genres, including electronic music, many folk traditions, pop, and free improvisation. The Trickster Orchestra “does not merely paste these [genres] together, but strives to develop collective forms of creation for a contemporary musical language of radical diversity on an equal footing.”
This combined diversity and equality form an ideal ethos to interpret Nomads, which “combines written materials with improvisation to represent the unpredictable, yet directed, plausible, and need-based nature of transnational and transcultural migration.” For Lewis, the players of Nomads must negotiate and re-negotiate a sonic consensus that both creates an emergent social reality and enacts the experience of modernity itself, creating a powerful encounter for performer and audience alike.
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