Astra Choir: Poetic Intelligence

POETRY INTO MULTIPLE VOICES

Premiering two vocal-poetic cycles for choir and solo voices:

David Howell (Dan Christie) INTO THE NIGHT BEFORE THE SUN. 10 Songs of Travel (2022);  Andrée Greenwell (Rilke, Ross Gibson, Felicity Plunkett) THREE PIECES FOR CHOIR (2021)

with choral poetics of Keith Humble (Wen Ting-Yung), Elisabeth Lutyens (W. H. Auden), Peggy Glanville-Hicks (Wallace Stevens), Carl Vine (Thomas Campion)

Astra invites you to experience two concerts that explore how music thinks. Automated Intelligence and Poetic Intelligence offer contrasting reflections on what musical intelligence can be.

These concerts traverse music generated through rule-based systems, algorithmic processes, and machine learning—and music shaped by the inner workings of language and metaphor, and in turn shaping these with the choral voice.