All members are invited to join Enda Bates and Elliott Sharp for a post-concert reception and Q&A (RSVP).

Emerging Artists Commission recipient Enda Bates’ hexaphonic guitar is simply a standard electric guitar with a special pickup providing access to each individual string signal. This allows each string to be processed differently and to be routed to a different place in the room. In this new piece, written specifically for ISSUE’s 15-channel hanging speaker system, the guitar will be transformed not just sonically but also spatially, as a localized guitar splits into individual strings, becoming a fragmented sonic cloud that will mimic the flight of birds as it moves around the audience. Irish composer, musician, and producer Enda Bastes is based in Dublin, Ireland, where he recently completed a Ph. D at Trinity College Dublin with Donnacha Dennehy. He is a founder of the Spatial Music Collective, and spatially distributed sound is a key factor in his work.

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