As part of Ensemble Dal Niente’s residency at Big Ears, the ensemble will spend two days cycling through a vast and varied repertoire of improvised sets, small operas, chamber works, and performance art pieces inside and outside the Knoxville Museum of Art. Performances will occur every hour between 10am and 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Full Schedule:

SATURDAY, MARCH 28: MUSEUM RESIDENCY 10:20am-5pm

10:20 AM  Georges Aphergis, Recitations (1977-78)
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Soprano

                 Everett Minchu, Gakka for Singing Violist
Wendy Richman, Viola

11:00am Sarah Nemtsov, Zimmer IV (2019)  
Emma Hospelhorn, Mabel Kwan, Michael Lewanski, Ben Melsky, Igor Santos, performers

12:00pm Carola Bauckholt, Hirn and Ei (2010-2011)
Mabel Kwan, Jesse Langen, Ben Melsky, Constance Volk, performers

   Jessie Marino, Witford Brimley and his Robot Dog seize Burger King in a Bloodless Coup
Amanda Deboer Bartlett, Soprano       

1:00pm Katinka Kleijn, Forward Echo (2019)
Ensemble Dal Niente + Ken Vandermark

2:00pm Ken Vandermark, saxophone

3:00pm Luis Fernando Amaya, Tinta Roja, Tinta Negra / Red Ink, Black Ink (2017)
Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Soprano + Jesse Langen, Guitar

4:00pm Anthony Braxton, Ghost Trance Music – Composition Nos. 193 (1996) + 228 (1997)
Ensemble Dal Niente

SUNDAY, MARCH 29: MUSEUM RESIDENCY 11am-5pm

11:00am Igor Santos, Anima (2019)
Ben Melsky, harp and Kyle Flens, percussion

12:00pm Laura Steenberge, Rome is Burning 
Mabel Kwan, objects

1:00pm  Emma Hospelhorn, flute

2:00pm  George Lewis, Artificial Life 2007
Ensemble Dal Niente + Ken Vandermark

3:00pm  Ken Vandermark, saxophone & Jesse Langen, guitar

3:30pm Collaborator Panel: on the making and meaning of The Body of the State

4:00pm  The Body of the State (2017) by Eliza Brown in collaboration with Lara Campbell, Jeneth Hughes, Michelle Jones, Melinda Loveless, Anastazia Schmid, and Brittney Watson
Monodrama in three scenes for soprano, ensemble, and fixed media