Please join us for the world premiere of Prisoner's Cinema, a collaboratively composed and performed work by Sarah Hennies and Tristan Kasten-Krause with double bass, percussion, and a single candle flame. This piece explores the links between sight, hearing, and perception and is partly inspired by “trataka,” a style of yogi purification meditation that involves staring at a single point (such as a candle flame) for extended durations. The audience will be instructed to fix their gaze on the flame of the candle while Hennies and Kasten-Krause perform a work of high sustaining tones. The instruments are closely tuned to one another to produce beating effects and psychoacoustic phenomena such as “three-dimensional” sound, where it feels as though the music is moving through space. Hennies and Kasten-Krause believe in a style of adventurous music that is both challenging and accessible and that offers any potential audience member an experience that may change and broaden their experience of music, sound, the world, and themselves.

Each 30-minute performance will admit 15 audience members. Advance RSVP is required and timeliness is expected.

‍This project was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.