Banjo, Cello, and Percussion
(Concert Version)
from ASAP/Emend
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(2025)
Instrumentation:
Banjo, Cello, and Percussion
Duration:
ca 8:30" (sections 1-11)
with i bow: ca 11" - 13"
Performer(s):
Blake Slaughter (bnj.)
Namisa Sun (vc.)
Arnor Chu (perc.)
Emre Şener (cond.)
*premiere performances as part of The Juilliard School's 2025 Choreographers and Composers
Emend (2025), scored for banjo, cello, and percussion, is a contemporary chamber performance-art work that channels the abstractness of repair, vulnerability, boldness,
and transformation. Through explorations of texture, form, rhythm, and gesture,
the work creates a story of growth, representing a person's ability to
accept and learn from experience -- to be human.
Originally part of the collaborative music-and-dance work ASAP/Emend
(with choreographer LaMonte Sadler), Emend has evolved
into an independent concert piece.