Ars Poetica at UNC - Chapel Hill

Kyle Bartlett: Before (2019)

Yoon-Ji Lee: (new work)

Christian Carey: Spell Weavers (2024)

Douglas Boyce: Ars Poetica (2019)

counter)inducton performs Bartlett’s ‘Before’ at the Corcoran School for the arts in DC, Fall 2019

Douglas Boyce's Ars Poetica is a multimedia work that seeks to reconnect with ancient oral storytelling traditions like griots and jongleurs, combining poetry and musical performance, drawing from modern and medieval devices of Western Art Music, and also from poet Marlanda Dekine's roots in Gullah Geechee culture and West/Central African influences.

Kyle Bartlett's Before imagines an origin of music, and postulates a rapid elevation of complexity,  as the proto-language quickly develops grammar and signification that is resonant with but different from chamber music's primary tongue.  This program features two works composed for c)i, with premieres planned in Spring 2025: 

Christian Carey's Spell Weavers for clarinet and guitar forms part of his Proteus cycle written for counter)induction, exploring sonic possibilities through atmospheric textures including tremolos, trills, harmonics, pizzicato, multiphonics, and rasgueado.

Yoon-Ji Lee's new work showcases the Boston-based composer's unconventional, non-linear approach, interweaving rapidly transforming gestures, textures, and tone colors.

counter)inducton with Marlanda Dekine performing Ars Poetic in Washington DC, Spring 2023.