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Arkora’s Transarcadia blends new commissions, songs from our past decade of work, and reforged traditional songs with immersive sound and visual design inspired by imaginary utopian futures of our aftertimes. Dreamscapes, abstracted botania, kaleidoscopic memories, field-recordings of disappearing ecologies…all blend together as a backdrop for a program of works from past projects (Transfigured Light, Rainshadow’s Edge, The Sign of Jonas, Cloud Chamber) and future ones (Eurydice Fragments).
Looking back across the past decade, the zeitgeists of revolution, rebirth, and turmoil have all been manifest, causing rumination on what lies ahead. As artists, we’ve long been responsible for imagining creative ways forward long before actual means to achieve them exist. With this in mind, can we see a path where confusion begins to give way to shapes of hope and clarity? At once bright and tinged with shadows, the garden of Transarcadia is a place where Arkora and its audiences can acknowledge and share both collective pain and positive visioning of a better world.
With Transarcadia, Arkora takes a step further in refining its polyphonic sound and instrumentation, distilling a larger chamber consort down to 7-8 performers: three dedicated vocalists (soprano, alto, tenor), and a band of electric/steel guitar, violin, piano/keyboards/analogue synthesizers, bass/cello, and percussion, all doubling on secondary vocals. The ensemble and audiovisual design have been devised with straight-forward technical requirements in mind (a full spec sheet is available on request).
Contact:
Benton Roark, artistic director/bandleader
(604) 704-1459
Jane Long, manager/soprano
janemarielong@gmail.com
(360) 333-8976
www.arkoramusic.com