Bluenight: Jane Rigler

The Blueproject Foundation, in collaboration with the Phonos project, is pleased to invite you to the presentation of Jane Rigler, our proposal for this month’s Bluenight.

Flutist, composer and improviser, Jane Rigler will perform two pieces at the Sala Project: Convexed Origins and Sonic Meditations. In the first one the artist brings together different ideas such as the convexed shape of the Earth, the non-linear time, and her origins, from her ancestors. Through them, the piece recognizes a continuum line in time that connects all elements, among them the artist’s instrument or voice, from a very far away past until the present, projecting into the future.

The second part of the program will be comprised by some “sonic meditations”, in which the audience is invited to participate following some simple guidelines. Departing from the well known practice of deep listening, devised by the American composer Pauline Oliveros, which states that anyone is able to perform this kind of listening, Rigler proposes a moment in which one can take part focusing their attention in the action of listening, creating a collective sonic experience.

Jane Rigler is a flutist, composer, improviser and Certified Deep Listening© practitioner. She has been granted numerous awards for her compositions that center on community building, stretching the boundaries of musical performance and audience interaction. Jane received the Japan United States Friendship Commission Fellowship and has been in residencies in Hambidge, UCROSS, Harvestworks and Civitella Ranieri (thanks to the Composers Now Foundation). As an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, she teaches contemporary music history, computer music, chamber music, improvisation, and co-teaches a Digital Humanity course.