I/O Fest at the Clark

I/O New Music presents a “volcano listening experience” based on music by Leilehua Lanzilotti and with collaboration and performance by RAWdance’s Co-Artistic Directors. The work, titled Gray, blends percussion, cello, and dance through a unique, open-ended score, in which the dancers determine the rhythm and pacing of the overall work with their physicality.

Leilehua Lanzilotti is a “leading composer-performer” (The New York Times), whose work is characterized by expansive explorations of timbre. A native Hawaiian composer and sound artist, Lanzilotti’s practice explores radical indigenous contemporaneity, integrating community engagement into the heart of her projects.

I/O New Music, a contemporary music ensemble at Williams College, is directed by Matthew Gold. I/O, which stands for input/output, reflects the group’s ethos of letting lived experience bleed into their music. The ensemble is composed of musicians from the Williams College Department of Music faculty, student body, and local community, with guest artists from across the country.

Image by Andrew Weeks