Nashville Sound Artist to Offer Sonic Response to Dale Chihuly
Aaron Hoke Doenges to perform "SeaSounds and Other Forms" at Frist on Friday, May 21st
NASHVILLE, TN – On the evening of Friday, May 21st, from six to eight p.m., Nashville sound artist/composer Aaron Hoke Doenges will respond to the glass work of Dale Chihuly, on display at venues around the city, with a sound installation and performance at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts. The performance, entitled "SeaSounds and Other Forms," will feature new pieces composed by Doenges in response to the work of Chihuly.
Doenges first plunged into to the Nashville scene as founder/co-director of SoundCrawl:Nashville in October, 2009 where he premiered his piece "The Suicide of Freddie Mac". Having since established his artist residency at the Downtown Presbyterian Church, he has continued to explore Nashville's sonic and artistic boundaries through installations and performances around the city while gaining regional awareness through competitions, festivals and private commissions. Prior to this, Doenges received his Master of Music in Composition degree from Belmont University.
"As I was thinking about this show," Doenges notes, "I was thinking not only about Chihuly's work, but about what Chihuly's work helps me interpret and experience. As an avid outdoorsman and a lover of nature, his glass work sheds a new, if somewhat refracted, light on the things I already love. Perhaps I can do the same with sound."
SeaSounds comes amidst a citywide collaborative exhibition of Chihuly's work. The Frist will be showing Chihuly's works starting on May 9th. The Nashville Symphony will be performing a staged production of Bartok's "Bluebeards Castle" with Chihuly's work on May 20th through the 22nd. And starting May 25th, the Cheekwood Botanical Gardens will feature installations of Chihuly's work in the natural setting of their rolling Tennessee landscape.
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