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March 4, 2008
Daniel Bernard Roumain’s One Loss Plus at William Paterson University on March 26
Daniel Bernard Roumain’s One Loss Plus, a multimedia work for electronic/acoustic violin, piano, electronics and video, will be performed at William Paterson University’s Shea Center for Performing Arts at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 on the campus in Wayne, N.J. Admission is free.
One Loss Plus was first performed at William Paterson University in August 2007 before it premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival, which commissioned the project.
One Loss Plus portrays and confronts feelings of loss, isolation, and optimism through recorded interviews and narratives of those who have lost and gained from their experiences.
Roumain’s meditative and melodious score reflects the re-telling of these personal stories as he traverses the stage and interacts with the video installation by Janet Wong, performing a continuous series of sonatas for solo violin, piano, and electronics. A video installation of pre-recorded musicians and narrators forms a collage of natural and contrived conversations between people who have never met, interwoven with actual posts from websites such as YouTube and MySpace. The result is a rich, intense amalgam of real and imaginary dialogues about our complex and tangled lives.
The event is part of William Paterson’s Shea Center Presents Vistas Series, designed to serve the University’s students and faculty, as well as the surrounding multicultural community. Funding for the Vistas Series at William Paterson University has been made possible, in part, by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State.
For more information, call the Shea Center Box Office at 973-720-2371.
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