Antiphon Trio joins Lea Bertucci for a performance at Time & Space Limited in Hudson, New York. From the venue’s website:

LEA BERTUCCI is an experimental musician whose works revolve around electronic and spatial extensions of instrument and voice. In addition to her longstanding practice performing with woodwinds, she has created compositions for strings, brass, percussion and other instruments, often incorporating electronics and multichannel sound. With an ear toward site-responsiveness and acoustics, her work has expanded toward installation and non-linear presentations of her music, often staged in hyper-resonant spaces.

ANTIPHON TRIO is made up of Michael Century (accordion), Chris Fisher-Lochhead (viola), and Zach Layton (17-string electric bass guitar). This unique instrumentation creates rich, resonant acoustic inputs, which are then fed into Pauline Oliveros’s Expanded Instrument System (EIS). The EIS can be considered as an “ecstatic time machine,” a system designed to expand temporal perception where, in Oliveros’s terms, “present/past/future is occurring simultaneously with transformations”. This temporal layering is achieved through multiple delays and processing algorithms, resulting in an evolving, emergent spatio-temporal field, or timescape, that induces discoveries and disciplined practices of deep listening and response.

The concept of “Antiphon” – meaning “sounding in response” and deriving from roots of “concord” or “concordance” perfectly encapsulates the trio’s interaction, not only among ourselves but crucially with the EIS. It is a continuous call-and-response with the deep-seated echoes and future projections of our own sounds. The EIS, with its capacity for up to 40 discrete voices from its delay lines and ambisonic panners that sculpt “spatial progressions,” creates clouds of sound that envelop the listener.