OFFICIAL DBR NEWSLETTER - ONE LOSS PLUS OPENS TONIGHT @ BAM NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL! Tonight marks the world premiere of ONE LOSS PLUS, a work for six-string violin, prepared piano, and video. As a part of the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the work will also feature filmed performances by DJ SPOOKY, TONI BLACKMAN, friends and family from YOUTUBE and MYSPACE, and a very special live performance by one of Haiti's most important popular voices, Emeline Michel (Nov 17 performance only). It's loud, fast, fierce, intimate, and (I think) an honest work, one that asks the question, What is gained when something or someone is lost?
I hope you can attend on either November 14, 16, or 17 and in doing so, become a very important part of what I hope will be an answer to those things lost and gained and those ever present, but ever elusive, feelings of enduring optimism that we should all take to the time to consider and share.
Hoping to see you in person,
-DBR
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[Brooklyn, NY] November 14, 16 & 17: ONE LOSS PLUS at BAM's Next Wave Festival ONE LOSS PLUS
CONCEIVED AND COMPOSED BY DANIEL BERNARD ROUMAIN (DBR)
NOV 14, 16 & 17 AT 7:30PM
BAM HARVEY THEATER | NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL
TICKETS: $20, 25, 35
What is gained when something or someone is lost?
A multimedia work for electronic/acoustic violin, piano, electronics, and video, One Loss Plus portrays and confronts feelings of loss, isolation, and optimism through recorded interviews and narratives of those who have lost and gained from their experiences. Daniel Bernard Roumain's (DBR) meditative and melodious score reflects the re-telling of these personal stories as he traverses the stage and interacts with the video installation by Janet Wong, performing a continuous series of sonatas for solo violin, piano, and electronics. A video installation of pre-recorded musicians and narrators forms a collage of natural and contrived conversations between people who have never met, interwoven with actual posts from websites such as YouTube and MySpace. The result is a rich, intense amalgam of real and imaginary dialogues about our complex times and tangled lives.
One Loss Plus was commissioned by the Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music and also made possible through the generous technical support of the Shea Performing Arts Center at William Paterson University.
Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), violin
Wynne Bennett, piano
Video design by Janet Wong
Lighting design by Matthew Richards
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