DEPARTURE DUO
CHERYL E. LEONARD + WOBBLY

Boston-based DEPARTURE DUO (Nina Guo, soprano and Edward Kass, double bass) probes the experimental side of soprano and double bass with commissioned pieces from Christian Wolff, Erin Gee, and Andrew Watts. In a program that pushes their high-low combination through the Looking Glass, Departure Duo invites listeners to a world where voice and instrument become one sonic body, sound off on a proto-language, and follow gargoyles on a PM walk. Bring open ears to explore the extremities of soprano and double bass with us. 

• For Charles North’s 15 Poems and Liner Notes 2 by Christian Wolff
• Mouthpiece 43 by Erin Gee
• Garden Clocks by Njabulo Phungula
• Linear B by Andrew Watts

CHERYL LEONARD makes field recordings of natural soundscapes, and builds and plays electroacoustic instruments made out of natural materials such as bones, driftwood, shells, seaweed, feathers, and stones.  WOBBLY sees the long histories of feedback and generative music as attempts to better understand what all those animals are singing about.  Recently they’ve been driving to the Marin Headlands to make hydrophone recordings of the Newt Pond that was once an anti-aircraft gun turret, you know the one, but if you haven’t stuck your head underwater to hear the sound of photosynthesizing pond weed, don’t — those newts are poisonous.