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Dafne Vicente-Sandoval works at the intersection of bassoon acoustics, spatial resonance and amplification; Charles Curtis explores classical cello performance, precise tuning and sustained sound. Together their work marks out a distinctive perspective on contemporary experimental music. Working collectively with composers Alvin Lucier, Tashi Wada and Éliane Radigue, and individually with Jakob Ullmann, Phill Niblock, Peter Ablinger, La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, and Christian Wolff, Vicente-Sandoval and Curtis present shared concerts of work made for them along with original sound pieces.

For their presentation at The Lab on Saturday April 25, two live performances will frame a listening session of unreleased and rarely-heard recordings from their personal inventory. Vicente-Sandoval will premiere a new version of Tashi Wada's Witness, in which a series of microtonally inflected scales and tetrachords are explored through repetition, variation and improvisation. Vicente-Sandoval's own Minos Circuit Rewired, for microphone feedback, voice and disassembled bassoon, will highlight the evening performance. Curtis will intersperse short performances, possibly including music of Tashi Wada, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff and J. S. Bach, and other works-in-progress. Interspersed throughout the program, material from Vicente-Sandoval & Curtis’s archive will be heard through The Lab’s superb sound system.