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Apmonia Quartet performs microtonally inflected works drawing on visual language, graphic notation, and the improvisation within the contemporary experimental music context. Tony Conrad's Minor (1995), only performed once before, takes an ideosyncratic approach to extended just intonation characteristic of his minimalist works such as the landmark drone album Slapping Pythagoras. Chiyoko Szlavnics's Gradients of Detail (2021), written for Quatour Bozzini, draws on a minimal graphical line-based notation. Morton Feldman's Three Pieces for String Quartet (1956) is an earlier work prefiguring his later patterning after Turkish rugs. Finally, Anthony Braxton's Composition No. 17 (1971) utilizes the composer's unconventual visual notation informed by the radical work of the AACM and other improvisation practices.

Apmonia String Quartet is a freshly formed group featuring Josh Modney and Sabrina Salamone on violins, Julian Seney on viola, and Tyler J. Borden on cello. Based in NYC, the group’s ethos hinges on a rigorous commitment to both interpretation and improvisation in contemporary experimental music. With longstanding individual commitments to a wide array of practices across the spectrum of contemporary music, this group is excited to bring their collective experience to bear in future collaborations and program curation.

The Lab’s chamber music programming is supported by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Amphion Foundation.