New Cartographies

On October 23rd and 26th, counter)induction presents compelling contemporary chamber music exploring the full spectrum of human experience through sound. The program opens with Alvin Singleton’s deeply moving “Jasper Drag” for piano, cello, and violin—a profound meditation on collective memory inscribed to James Byrd, Jr., while Suzanne Sorkin’s “Swept” features darting clarinet lines alongside cello. The evening continues with Eric Moes “Amicable Couplings,” a 2025 composition that playfully references organ and harpsichord coupling mechanisms through unusual registral doublings, followed by Douglas Boyce’s “the vastness hitherto spoken of is as great in one direction as in another” for piano trio, drawing its title and affect from William James’s his discussion of “extensity” as an “entirely peculiar kind of feeling.” The program concludes with Kyle Bartlett’s “Dream Journal”—a haunting work for cello and piano that translates the composer’s dreams into music, capturing the fragmented logic of sleep where rational thought dissolves into surreal poetry. With twenty years of “fiery ensemble virtuosity” (The New York Times) and winner of ASCAP/Chamber Music America’s Award for Adventurous Programming, counter)induction continues delivering world-class performances of compelling contemporary music.