Uploaded March 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Out/With/In: music performances on Governors Island was a day-long experience where the psychological disorientation of the pandemic is applied to instrumental and environmental sound, deliriously blurring the lines between audience and performer, concert and installation, sound and space. A sonic happening that situates social distancing at the heart of the musical experience as opposed to a necessary condition of being together publicly, Out/With/In does more than just take music outdoors, it brings the outdoors into music itself. It featured music works by Marina Rosenfeld, Alec Hall, Sarah Hennies, and David Bird
and Performances by:
Alex Alfaro, Caitlin Cawley, Ellery Trafford, Marina Kifferstein, Kalun Leung, KatieRose McLaughlin, Lester St. Louis, Jess Tsang, and more
The performances were located throughout Governors Island on Oct 31st, 2020 (Rain Date: Nov. 1)
This video is an excerpt from "Yardwork" by Alec Hall.
Alec Hall’s “Yardwork” fuses concert instruments—trombone and percussion—with classic landscaping tools: lawnmowers and hedge trimmers and leaf blowers. The result is a compelling and comic interaction between abstract instrumental forces and mechanistic landscaping ones. A slow-moving ballet of a kind emerges as the yard workers move their machines in composed geometrical patterns, moving inward toward the center of the Parade Ground and back out again, as the performers respond to the subtle changes and rhythms of the motors and blades in motion.
Out/With/In: music performances on Governors Island was a day-long experience where the psychological disorientation of the pandemic is applied to instrumental and environmental sound, deliriously blurring the lines between audience and performer, concert and installation, sound and space. A sonic happening that situates social distancing at the heart of the musical experience as opposed to a necessary condition of being together publicly, Out/With/In does more than just take music outdoors, it brings the outdoors into music itself. It featured music works by Marina Rosenfeld, Alec Hall, Sarah Hennies, and David Bird
and Performances by:
Alex Alfaro, Caitlin Cawley, Ellery Trafford, Marina Kifferstein, Kalun Leung, KatieRose McLaughlin, Lester St. Louis, Jess Tsang, and more
The performances were located throughout Governors Island on Oct 31st, 2020 (Rain Date: Nov. 1)
This video is an excerpt from "Yardwork" by Alec Hall.
Alec Hall’s “Yardwork” fuses concert instruments—trombone and percussion—with classic landscaping tools: lawnmowers and hedge trimmers and leaf blowers. The result is a compelling and comic interaction between abstract instrumental forces and mechanistic landscaping ones. A slow-moving ballet of a kind emerges as the yard workers move their machines in composed geometrical patterns, moving inward toward the center of the Parade Ground and back out again, as the performers respond to the subtle changes and rhythms of the motors and blades in motion.
