InfraSound 2024-2025 Season Announcement
Dear InfraSound friends, family, and followers,
As the weather begins to cool and the days grow shorter, InfraSound is preparing to begin our 5th season together. Reflecting on the past 5 years, I’m filled with joy witnessing how our community has blossomed. Since 2019, we have premiered over 18 new compositions and 37 world premiere arrangements, collaborating with more than 60 musicians, composers, sound engineers, lighting designers, stage directors, and visual artists.
Our residency at the LGBT Center has been particularly rewarding, where we produced six full length shows to full houses. We’re honored to have received recognition and grants from Chamber Music America, New Music USA, Aaron Copland Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Art, Ursula Mamlok Foundation, Figma, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. A significant milestone was our first glowing review in I Care If You Listen highlighting our interdisciplinary collaboration with visual artist Jeremy Martin, sound artist Alex Gray, lighting designer Madeline Whitesell, and our friends at ChamberQUEER.
We’ve performed with fire performers, poets, performance artists, actors, dancers, and more! And of course none of this would be possible without you, our audience. Thank you for these incredible past four seasons, and we look forward to sharing what is in store for you this year and beyond (and trust us when we say it will be ICONIC).
Our 2024-2025 Season will start off on Tuesday, December 3rd at Brooklyn Art Haus as we present “Somewhere Only We Know: Song and Solace.” This concert is an evolution of our annual InfraPop series (that has been becoming one of our most popular series for our musicians and audiences). This concert will take our audience through stories and songs about love, loss, heartbreak, grief, memory, and healing. Featuring our two all-star InfraPop vocalists Marisa Tornello and Luke Paulino, our 9-piece InfraPop! Orchestra, and special guest artist Natti Vogel, Somewhere Only We Know invites our audience to come together to share in our celebration of the life and memory of those we have lost. We’ll be premiering 14 brand new arrangements by InfraSound members of songs by SOPHIE, Sinéad O’Connor, Björk, FKA Twigs, Sam Amidon, Anaïs Mitchell, 4 Non Blondes, Keane, Joanna Newsom, and many more.
In February 2025, InfraSound is excited to release our first ever studio album in collaboration with composer and violinist Darian Donovan Thomas and cmntx records. Titled “Book of Sorrows,” this album was workshopped over a period of several months in Summer/Fall 2023 and recorded at Figure 8 Studios in Brooklyn. Featuring 10 outstanding InfraSound musicians, along with electronics and text crafted by Darian, this album explores the concept of queer sorrow, and allows both musicians and listeners to engage with aspects of queer lives that often go unheard.
And finally, InfraSound will be having a legendary close to our 24/25 season with a world premiere mini-opera by Susan Botti. Titled Iconic, we will be performing this new work alongside other chamber pieces by Mario Diaz de Leon, Katherine Balch, Eva-Maria Houben, and more. You have the chance to catch this performance THREE times from April 25th-27th, 2025 at the iconic venue at St. Malachy’s The Actor’s Chapel. Exploring the theme of the fate of heroes or icons once they are discarded, Susan Botti’s piece delves into the concept of wastefulness through a captivating musical drama.
The narrative revolves around the characters Leander and Medusa, suspended amidst waves frozen in time, burdened with the detritus of human disregard. Their spectral forms emerge from the sea to deliver poignant arias reminiscent of Handel or Purcell, while an ensemble of musicians embodies the voice of Neptune and shapes the immersive sonic landscape. I’ve curated complimentary chamber works also inspired by icons and mythology, creating a variety of aural experiences for our audience, one not to be missed!
InfraSound has a lot to look forward to this coming year and beyond. We are so grateful to our community for your support as we grow, learn, and create. We are reminded that community is at the center of what we do, and why we do it. Finding a safe space for our musicians and audiences to engage with experimental music and art in a variety of ways is our main priority. We look forward to continuing our mission and seeing where this path leads us.
With love,
Yoshi Weinberg
Artistic Director of InfraSound
