I CARE IF YOU LISTEN: Video Premiere: Aizuri Quartet Performs Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution
I CARE IF YOU LISTEN: Video Premiere: Aizuri Quartet Performs Gabriella Smith’s Carrot Revolution
BY AMANDA COOK
“Today’s video premiere (Four/Ten Media) features the Aizuri Quartet performing Gabriella Smith‘s Carrot Revolution from their upcoming album Blueprinting.
Blueprinting is the debut album from the Aizuri Quartet, featuring five works born out of a close collaboration between the quartet and composers Lembit Beecher, Yevgeniy Sharlat, Caroline Shaw, Gabriella Smith, and Paul Wiancko.
Inspired by the unique ‘ensembles’ of paintings, metal objects, furniture, and pottery at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Gabriella Smith describes Carrot Revolution as ‘a patchwork of my wildly contrasting influences and full of strange and unexpected juxtapositions and intersecting planes of sound, inspired by the way Barnes’ ensembles show old works in new contexts and draw connections between things we don’t think of as being related.’”