Wednesday February 05, 2025 | | $10-$20
Bashi Rose // Rebecca Lloyd-Jones: Sarah Hennies’ Thought Sectors
Wednesday February 5th, 8pm Doors, 8:30pm Show
Incredible musical night abounds!
Bashi Rose, founder of Konjur Collective is a theatre artist, musician, and filmmaker. He was raised in West Baltimore and nurtured by the Baltimore Arts Community. He has performed and has had work produced in numerous venues including the High Zero Festival of Experimental Improvised Music, Brooklyn Academy of Music, National Saw Dust, The Shrine, San Francisco Black Film Festival, Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest, and the Black Panther Party Film festival to name a few.
Drumming allows Bashi to commune with his ancestors and to experience physical and spiritual liberation when improvising. He hopes his audience also shares that experience in the moment.
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones is a Meanjin (Brisbane) based creative, whose work is centered around feminist experimental and sonic traditions. Holding a Doctorate from UC San Diego, Rebecca serves as the Artistic Director of Synergy Percussion, is a Marimba One Education Artist and is a lecturer at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones presents Sarah Hennies’ evening-length percussion solo, Thought Sectors.
Thought Sectors explores concepts of divided consciousness – the active and receptive brain, with the composition being based on these conditions and their manifestation through sound exploration. The solo consists not only of conventional instruments, such as the vibraphone and bass drum, yet also incorporates items such as a flour sifter, stapler mixing bowl, and large pitcher of water.
From Sarah Hennies:
“Thought Sectors was somehow based on “divided consciousness,” a term coined by psychologist Ernest Hilgard that theorized the human brain is divided into distinct components rather than a single unified consciousness. He assigns two modes of consciousness to the brain – active and receptive – and the piece is based on these conditions, both separately and then simultaneously. I began this piece before the COVID-19 pandemic began in spring 2020 when I took a long break from composing. The amount of time that has passed since I first conceived of the piece coupled with a harrowing few years of early parenthood, a long distance job, and serious mental health issues mean that this piece is a particularly honed example of a mysterious, semi-rational approach to composition I have been exploring since 2018. What is this piece? How did I make artistic decisions? I truly don’t remember and perhaps this is analogous to the vast portions of our brains to which we have no direct access.”
