Ian Power “Brace” Record Release Concert

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
169 Bowery NYC
7:00 pm

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Please join us for the record release concert of Ian Power’s “Brace.” Following an opener by electronic musician Victoria Cheah, as well as a 15min absurdist performance film by Powers about mummies with fellow composer Clint McCallum, “It Allowed Them To Produce A Single Sound,” the Bergamot Quartet will perform string quartet “Brace Each Other Dive.”

According to Power: “The piece’s building blocks are simple timbre, time, and pitch instructions, but it houses an environment that is rich and always shifting; a friend said the recording “sounds like Beethoven’s Third!” We laughed a lot while learning it; we had to reckon with each others’ individual senses of time; and we made personal choices, like when to embrace consonance or dissonance, how to embrace discomfort, and choreography, and, obviously, how to learn a piece where the score is entirely text and each player chooses their own part.”