k'uKu

July 23, 2020

7:00 p.m.

Live Broadcast

Online

Live broadcast

Image via Americas Society video.

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Admission: This event has been moved online and will be webcast on this page. No registration is required to watch.

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k’uKu World Premiere and Conversation (English) <a href="https://youtu.be/qqwQSte5_64">Video of k'uKu World Premiere and Conversation with Audio Description (English)</a>   <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="328" src=" https://www.youtube.com/embed/hp5HtN2MseI " width="500" class="youtube-player"/> k’uKu World Premiere and Conversation (Spanish) <a href="https://youtu.be/hovmIJCoLjM">Video of k'uKu World Premiere and Conversation with Audio Description (Spanish)</a>   <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="328" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2O78v8Dnkz4" width="500" class="youtube-player"/> k’uKu World Premiere <a href="https://youtu.be/GZf3k26_DeY">Video of k'uKu with Audio Description (English)</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/QdGUf7tpQRU">Video of k'uKu with Audio Description (Spanish)</a> Music of the Americas presents the online world premiere of k’uKu, a composition for string quintet, percussion, voice, electronics, and video, with music by Pauchi Sasaki and video by Juan Carlos Yanaura, commissioned by Americas Society. Shot during the COVID confinement in cities across the US and in Lima, the source video material is 3D scans made by the musicians with their phones in their homes and studios. These images become figures and environments that are in constant dialogue. Commissioned by Americas Society, k'uKu ('Unripe Fruit' in Quechua) was originally conceived as a site-specific multimedia performance to take place in New York's Central Park, and became a site-specific place for the virtual space created by Sasaki and Yanaura. The online event will include a conversation between the artists and Music Director Sebastián Zubieta, and also feature Sasaki's earlier work Borealis, giving the audience a broader context to appreciate their collaboration. Performers will include members of the orchestral collective The Knights alongside percussionist Haruka Fujii and Sasaki herself on voice. Audio description in English and Spanish provided by <a href="http://www.artsparktx.org/">Art Spark Texas.</a> Artists <a href="https://www.pauchi.com/">Pauchi Sasaki</a>: composer, voice, and electronics <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/JuanCarlosYanaura">Juan Carlos Yanaura</a>: video artist Haruka Fujii: percussion Emily Daggett Smith: violin* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nanae778">Nanae Iwata</a>: violin* Kyle Armbrust: viola* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jane.c.ohara">Jane Cords-O'Hara</a>: cello* <a href="https://www.facebook.com/coale.logan">Logan Coale</a>: bass* *Musicians from The Knights     About the Artists <a href="https://www.pauchi.com/">Pauchi Sasaki</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pauchi.sasaki/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/pauchi77">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pauchisasaki/">Instagram</a> Described by The Wire as an artist “unafraid of working within different disciplines and stylistic constraints” (2015), Pauchi Sasaki’s interdisciplinary approach integrates musical composition with the design of multimedia performances and the application of new technologies. k'uKu represents a deepening of her artistic practice. The performance explores the early stages of the creative process – this moment when an unripe fruit begins to produce an explosion of colors and flavors.   <a href="https://theknightsnyc.com">The Knights</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheKnightsNYC">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/TheKnightsNYC">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/theknightsnyc/">Instagram</a> The Knights are an orchestral collective, flexible in size and repertory, dedicated to transforming the concert experience.    Juan Carlos Yanaura <a href="https://www.facebook.com/juan.yanaura ">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/JuanCarlosYanaura">YouTube</a> Based in Peru, Juan Carlos Yanaura is a video designer for staged theater, musicals, contemporary dance, music concerts, and many other live events. His works have been seen in major houses in Peru (Ballet Nacional, Teatro Nacional) as well as prestigious festivals throughout the US (Phillip Glass Days and Nights Festival), and Europe (Rolex Arts Weekend in Berlin, Les Créatives Festival in Geneva).

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