A vivid, multidisciplinary performance by songwriter and improviser Herbie Hopkins. Centered on the imagined figure of a daughter named Alex, the piece draws on a wide array of visual inspirations—from Renaissance paintings and religious hymns to horror film posters and feminist photography. Through song, improvisation, and live movement by dancers Edna Sanchez and Jesse Bagget-Lahav, the performance transforms this eclectic imagery into an intimate and expressive narrative. Blurring boundaries between sound and vision, memory and invention, We Could Call Her Alex is a poetic exploration of identity, imagination, and the emotional power of storytelling.

y brodyr peryglus are a duo of sonic manipulators with a long history. The brothers in peril are Tim Beckham (electronic guitar) and Simon Sanders (percussive electrickery). They will be performing their “Water Music” compositions. Bound together by molecules of hydrogen and oxygen, “Water Music” explores the depths of the ocean, ice giants on the move, ebb and flow as a constraint, and rhythms and cycles that propel our perception. Expect an experience that is both subtle and extreme. Immersed in a tapestry of moving waters, the instrumentation is both familiar and strange, conjuring moisture out of the very air.

A delicate and evocative exploration of memory, and the people and moments that form the tapestries of our present. Weaving together composed songs and improvisation, it explores themes of joy, tenderness, grief, nostalgia and transience.

Namvula performs with acclaimed musicians Liran Donin (bass), Giuliano Modarelli (guitar), Chris Williams (sax & flutes), and Mamadou Sarr (percussion). The piece is a work in development, funded by Sound and Music: In Motion.

Now, more than ever, in this fractured world, Chasing Shadows is born of a desire to offer a widening of heart-space and a little more human inter-connectedness.