Blank Forms
468 Grand Ave. #1D
Brooklyn, NY 11238

$20

Featuring OCCAM XXVI for percussion, followed by the premiere of a new OCCAM River for trumpet and percussion

Nate Wooley and Enrico M. will perform a selection of rarely-performed works by Éliane Radigue. Radigue, one of the pioneers of continuous sound in concert music, retired from electronic music in 2001 and began creating collaborative works with instrumentalists. Since then, she has produced more than seventy works ranging from solos and string quartets to works for orchestra. She began creating “OCCAM Ocean”—the series comprising most of this prolific output—in 2011.

Wooley and M. are each long-standing champions of the French composer’s music. Enrico M., one of the final additions to Radigue’s rotating band of chevaliers—the French word for “knights,” and her word for solo collaborators—is one of the most fervent and in-demand performers of her music, collaborating with Wooley and others on larger pieces in Europe during celebrations of the composer’s ninetieth birthday last year. Wooley has been performing Radigue’s music for a decade, particularly OCCAM X for trumpet and OCCAM RIVER III for trumpet and birbynė with Carol Robinson. Since 2014, he has performed Radigue’s music dozens of times, most recently curating a concert of her music at the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee. He is also the author and editor of a 2021 issue of his journal, Sound American, devoted to the chevaliers and featuring ten interviews with some of Radigue’s closest partners in the making of “OCCAM Ocean.”

Enrico M. will perform the US premiere of the spectrally wild OCCAM XXVI for bowed cymbals, followed by the premiere of a new OCCAM River for percussion and trumpet played by the duo.