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MISSION
Density512 is a chamber orchestra and collective of brave and open musicians who champion contemporary programming. We produce imaginatively curated experiences, amplify the voices of groundbreaking and emerging artists, and cultivate interdisciplinary collaborations.

VISION
Density512 seeks to:

Build greater appreciation and understanding for new art music in Central Texas and the United States

Create a community audience of adventurous arts enthusiasts who become connected to new music

Supply paid work for musicians in Central Texas

Weave contemporary music into the fabric of cultural institutions in Central Texas

Provide an entry for young people into playing and learning new music allowing them the opportunity to become familiar with new music early in their lives

Establish Central Texas as a thriving new music community with a national reputation as a hotspot for large contemporary works

Develop the expectation that representation and equity is an expected feature of cultural institutions and musical programming

Provide a platform for musical visionaries, especially emerging, to create and share their work

STORY
As a collective, we seek to build inclusive community and partnerships through music and storytelling. Our aim is to tell stories from across our community and those that are reflective of the diversity of experiences that are held by our collective members, collaborators, and broader community members.

Since 2017 Density512 has given more than 30 world premieres, served over 8,000 live attendees, and reached over 100,000 people through radio and television performances. Density512 recently premiered the Holocaust Remembrance Opera Eva and the Angel of Death, played at the 2022 SXSW Music Festival, launched classical radio station KMFA 89.5’s Off Beat Series,  co-curated Fast Forward Austin’s 2018 new music festival, and participated in nine performances of Ragnar Kjartannson’s kinetic sculpture S.S. Hangover at The Contemporary Austin with Kjarten Sveinsson of Sigur Rós.

Additional collaborations include projects with the Austin Chamber Music Center, The Contemporary Austin, Blanton Museum of Art, Silent Films Out Loud, Fast Forward Austin, Thinkery, Liminal Sound Series, UMLAUF Sculpture Garden, HUB New Music, American Berserk Theatre, Red Night Fall Productions, Gilbert & Sullivan Austin, Golden Hornet, and the Austin Public Library. 

“...the music of this innovative ensemble was not just something beautiful I listened to, but a spaceship 
that took me on a journey to the outer reaches of the imagination.”   — Alyson, audience member
“… it felt like a community making a symphony rather than a performance in front of an audience… 
[Density512] is changing the way I think about music." — Jeremy, audience member

Austin, United States

Density 512

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2019

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More info at: https://www.density512.org/

Tuesday, February 27th, 12:00pm
Midday Music Series  (Free with Museum Admission)
Blanton Museum of Art (200 E Martin Luther King Jr Blvd)

Thursday, March 1st, doors at 7:30pm, concert at 8:00pm
CRAFT (4704B East Cesar Chavez Street #5, IN THE BACK)
Tickets at http://bit.ly/2Bo4CKO, $15 general, $10 student.

Something Borrowed explores our drive to make new work from old materials. World premieres of "re-composed" (Alma) Mahler, Schoenberg, and more! 

We challenged some of Austin's finest emerging composers to "re-compose" and re-imagine songs for voice and piano by  Alma Mahler to become new works for chamber orchestra. Featuring composers Akshaya Avril Tucker, Adeliia Faizullina, and Seo Yoon Kim, the "re-composed" lieder are paired with Songs of a Wayfarer by Alma's first husband, Gustav Mahler, and orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg. Concert open with Ben Stevenson's version of Bach's "Contrapuntus VII" and closes with Schoenberg's Kammersymphonie No. 1, once described by a famous guy  "hyperactive, acrobatic and not a little aggressive".

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