You can use your Friends of Reethaus pass to attend Khandroma, or you can purchase individual tickets through the link above.
Reethaus presents an original composition by harpist Eve Matin and William Russell of MONOM, taking the harp beyond its usual domains to produce an immersive liquid environment that glissandoes from the eerie to the celestial. Weaving Rain showcases technical innovations in each of their practices, mixing the streams of Matin’s harp experiments with Russell’s own in spatial sound and electronic composition.
Matin is a classically trained harpist of Persian and Peruvian heritage. In recent years, Matin has devoted herself to wide-ranging musical research in order to expand the technical and expressive possibilities of the harp. Drawing from diverse traditions, from jazz to Persian traditional singing and dance, Matin draws the harp out beyond the concept of an instrument that is plucked, adding tapping, bending and strumming to its sensous repertoire, among many other maneuvers. Her playing is informed by an interest in percussive cultures around the world, including Spanish flamenco, the Carnatic rhythms of southern India, and the Peruvian cajón, itself a carrier of African drumming patterns. Through her practice, Matin moves to situate the harp in resonance with other natural elements of landscape.
At MONOM, Russell created a spatial and digital environment that responded to Matin’s harp, inviting her to “play the space” with him. As the recording environment reacted to the harp with various sounds of water, it simultaneously informed Matin’s playing. The result of this dialogue was then further developed through a compositional process in which the frequencies of the harp were disaggregated, each assigned to its own movement through the space of Reethaus. With Weaving Rain, Slowness invites listeners into this meditative experimental watershed.