[NewMusicEvents] 12/15-12/17: Amy X Neuburg's "The Secret Language of Subways"

[Amy X Neuburg]

"The Secret Language of Subways"
A new song cycle by vocalist/composer AMY X NEUBURG

for voice, cello trio, electronic drums, and live electronic looping/processing
Featuring the Cello ChiXtet: ELAINE KRESTON, JESS IVRY, and BETH VANDERVENNET

Friday through Sunday, December 15-17, 2006 -- 8:00 PM
Dance Mission Theater
3316 24th Street (at Mission), San Francisco
Across the street from 24th St. BART

Tickets $15 with advance reservation / $18 at the door
To reserve, call (415) 273-4633
More info at http://www.amyxneuburg.com

Presented in cooperation with Other Minds, under fiscal sponsorship 
of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music.

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Techno-diva Amy X Neuburg, known for her wildly entertaining 
'avant-cabaret' performances, presents a new song cycle for voice, 
cello trio, electronic drums, and live electronic looping and 
processing. Conceived largely while riding on New York subways, these 
12 contrasting songs use urban images and metaphors of war to explore 
love and loss, aspects of deceit, and the artist's struggle between 
personal expression and world concern. Using drum pads, faders and 
pedals, Neuburg processes both her voice and the cellos with effects 
and real-time looping to build up layered harmonies and counterpoints 
live on stage. The cycle will be presented in dramatized concert 
form, and features three diverse and talented Bay Area cellists -- 
Elaine Kreston, Jess Ivry, and Beth Vandervennet. With lighting by 
award-winning designer Elaine Buckholtz.