Brighten up the dark days of winter with our evening concert series! Vesper70 will provide an immersive, cross-genre multisensory experience centered around the piano in the program "Sinter: Emergence at the End of Choice." You'll hear original compositions and familiar tunes blended with video art and sound design, all telling a story of rebirth as we approach the end of one year and the beginning of the next.

Sinter:

1. make (a powdered material) coalesce into a solid or porous mass by heating it (and usually also compressing it) without liquefaction;
2. a hard siliceous or calcareous deposit precipitated from mineral springs.

Interweaving solo acoustic piano, spoken word poetry, video art, sound design, and special “surround sound” audio – with both performer and audience immersed at the center of our event “in the round” – the multi-media journey of Sinter takes us from the ultimately enriching desert of early adulthood, through the tasting of the world, and upward into ascendance born of curiosity, courage, and faith that engages our very human ability to imagine, create, and live with full grace and potential.

Drawing influences from the impressionistic and harmonically daring neo-jazz compositions of Joe Zawinul, Bill Evans, and Ryuichi Sakamoto; the tactile language of Ranier Maria Rilke, E.E. Cummings, and Elizabeth Willis; the inspired, multi-dimensional video work of Wim Wenders and Ridley Scott; and the textured sound lands of Trent Reznor and Brian Eno, Vesper70’s Sinter brings true earth into waiting hands, new air into wanting lungs, and a vision beyond the seen. As art always transcends itself and its maker on its way back to you.

Vesper70 (He/Him/His) is a writer, musician, sound designer, and International Human Rights advocate whose work has appeared both nationally and internationally. A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts’, his live performances and original scores for theater, film, and dance have been featured in Cape Verde, Africa; Ankara, Turkey; The Fringe Festival (San Francisco); Elm Shakespeare’s Richard III; the Build Peace Conference (Chemnitz, Germany); Connecticut Public Television; Wesleyan University; the Charter Oak Cultural Center (Hartford, CT); and the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in NYC. His work often centers around core issues of identity, power, and the choice to live, all evoked through the shared experiential understanding with participating audiences through the very human gift of the arts.

Registration required.

Thanks to the Cheshire Public Library for sponsoring this program!