IN SITU | 2005 - ongoing
SITE Santa Fe Sixth International Biennial

This commissioned performance was be a site-specific composition created in response to the Sixth International Biennial exhibition, Still Points of the Turning World. Utilizing layers of uneven musical cycles, anchor and satellite ensembles and structured musical ‘tours’ of the installation, the composition engaged notions of the audience experience, individual elements of the exhibition as well as the spaces between.

Music by Chris Jonas and Molly Sturges
Text by Melody Sumner Carnahan and John Flax with additional materials by Molly Sturges and Pat McFarlin

Performers:
John Flax, text
Molly Sturges, voice
Alex Neville, voice
Poppy Wilder, voice
Chris Jonas, soprano saxophone
Sam Rhodes, bassoon
Sitara Schauer, violin and viola
Katie Harlow, cello
Paul Brown, acoustic bass
Lindsay Haughton, vibraphone and percussion
Joseph Sabella, marimba and percussion

Audience Instructions:
Due to the delicate nature of this composition, as well as the distances between the ensemble members, we ask you to refrain from speaking and help us to maintain quiet from the time you enter the space and throughout the performance. Feel free to sit and listen, but we encourage you to explore all the various zones of the ensemble and the installation. The performance is approximately 45 minutes in duration, divided into twelve sections. Please no applause until the end of the composition.