The Lab SF

San francisco, California

December 16, 2023

Yarn/Wire and Nina Dante present their newest collaboration with Ben Vida at the Lab in San Francisco.

Where Ben Vida’s music has previously explored the sound of text at the outer register of electronic composition, here, in collaboration with the Yarn/Wire quartet and the vocalist Nina Dante, the voice and the words it works to inhabit are placed back at the time-scale of a song. There is a familiarity to this music’s combination of restrained melody and heightened atmosphere. It feels, softly, like it’s made by a band: piano, percussion, voice. A composition kept aloft and even by its four stewards through a simultaneity of effort. The pace, across five pieces, hurries and relaxes but never outruns or distends language. You could find a story in the words being sung, if that’s what you need.

PROGRAM:
Ben Vida
The Beat My Head Hit
for ensemble, electronics, and voices

Doors open at 8PM/Music at 8:30PM