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DRIFT/ LOOP (Middletown, CT)


  • Wesleyan University Olin Memorial Library (Campbell Reading Room and Balcony) 252 Church Street Middletown, CT, 06459 United States (map)

A Twenty-Four Hour Performance Installation
November 1–2, 2024 (12 noon to 12 noon)

DRIFT/LOOP is an expansive multi-tiered space for sonic engagement and reflection, involving distributed performance, sound installation, audio streaming and radio transmission, community participation, and group contributed performances and scores.

DRIFT/LOOP is a large-scale participatory environment initiated and commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble and Andrew Cyr, conductor/producer, which has a large form improvisatory score written collaboratively by Paula Matthusen, visual artist Olivia Valentine, poet and media scholar Tung-Hui Hu, and original audio interpretations by Singularity Saxophone Quartet, Metropolis Ensemble, and Matthusen.

For more info: https://metropolisensemble.org/drift-loop

Earlier Event: October 28
Locomotive
Later Event: November 11
Kim/ Leon/ Marantz/ Watson