Name: Friction Quartet
Start: 2023-03-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-03-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grace Cathedral

Artist

Singer

Soprano

Cara Gabrielson

Grace Cathedral

Friction Quartet

Producer

San Francisco

United States

Friction Quartet: Concert Various

Public

Concert

Pending

Developed by Pascal Le Boeuf, Danny Clay, and the Friction Quartet, “Counter Paint: The Art of Fugue” is an interdisciplinary collaborative work that incorporates elements of classical music, collaborative painting, graphic notation, and improvisation to document a community of like minded musicians through the lens of a party game.

By combining concepts from Danny Clay’s “27 Overtures” with Pascal Le Boeuf’s collaborative approach to painting with groups of musicians, Clay and Le Boeuf engaged 34 composers and musicians to co-author a piece by approaching 27 canvases; each canvas includes four colors (Red, Yellow, Green, Blue); and each color represents an instrument in a string quartet (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello). As in a fugue, painters were asked to either visually develop a musical subject based on Beethoven’s Große Fugue as a basis for their contribution, or to expand upon the subject of another painter. As might be expected, additional games and experiments were introduced as the project developed. The resulting paintings were then interpreted graphically by Friction Quartet with directions from Clay and Le Boeuf.

Composed by Pascal Le Boeuf, Danny Clay, Friction Quartet, (Doug Machiz, Otis Harriel, Kevin Rogers, Taija Warbelow) Steven Mackey, Florent Ghys, Anna Pidgorna, Daniel Silliman, Emma O’Halloran, Gemma Peacocke, Matt McBane, So Percussion (Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting, and Eric Cha- Beach), Ninfea P. Cruttwell-Reade, Bora Yoon, Connor Elias Way, Tom Morrison, Natalie Dietterich, Juri Seo, Tamika Gorski, Molly Herron, Jenny Beck, Alyssa Weinberg, Anna Meadors, Chris Douthitt, Elliot Cole, Katelyn Halpern, Mike Mulshine, Kevin Eikenberg, and Annika Socolofsky.

------- Movements -------
I. Red (0:12)
II. Yellow (2:55)
III. Green (5:08)
IV. Blue (7:21)

------- Websites -------

Friction Quartet - www.frictionquartet.com
Pascal Le Boeuf - www.pascalmusic.com
Danny Clay  - www.dclaymusic.com

------- Additional Credits -------

Produced by Pascal Le Boeuf, Danny Clay, and Friction Quartet

Audio Production and Editing: Pascal Le Boeuf, Pascal Music

Recording: Andres Villalta, Princeton University (March 20, 2018)

Mixing and Mastering: Dave Darlington, Bass Hit Studios (May 4, 2018)

Video: Kevin Eikenberg, Four/Ten Media (March 17, 2018)

Commissioned by the Princeton University Livestock Exchange Concert Series

Special thanks to Anais Pérez, Justin Stanley, Pam Lins, Noah Fishman, Spencer Hadley, Alex Laurenzi, Samantha Godoy, and the Department of Music at Princeton University for your kindness and sound advice throughout this project.

Counter Paint: The Art of Fugue

An evening of song featuring soprano, Cara Gabrielson. This program features a composer commissioned by the Friction Commissioning Initiative III and a piece commissioned by Friction Quartet.

The celebrated ensemble will perform in the cathedral’s intimate Chapel of Grace. 

Friction Quartet, whose performances have been called “terribly beautiful” (San Francisco Classical Voice), “stunningly passionate” (Calgary Herald) and “exquisitely skilled” (ZealNYC), exists to modernize the chamber music experience and expand the string quartet repertoire. Friction achieves its mission by commissioning new works, curating imaginative programs, collaborating with artists, and presenting interactive educational outreach. Joshua Kosman (San Francisco Chronicle) declared that Friction Quartet is “an artist who should be discovered” and described their performance as “high-octane music making…a fine blend of rhythmic ferocity and tonal flair.”

English

Friction Quartet by Various, Frá (2023/2023), Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, United States

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