Qubit takes their collaboration with the French soloist, Séverine Ballon on the road--or rather to the air. We're meeting up in California for repeat performances of our recent New York premieres.

“Electric Chair Music”, the working title for Brian Ferneyhough’s landmark Time and Motion Study II for singing cellist and electronics, was written in 1973-76. Already nearly forty years old, where is the medium of violoncello and electronics now? How is a younger generation of composers responding to this most traditional of instruments when confronting it with alien worlds of electronic sound?

The program includes works by Aaron Einbond, Alec Hall, Bryan Jacobs, Franck Bedrossian, Eoin Callery and Rama Gottfried.