Strange Machines<\/a><\/i> imagines three quirky musical automata. In Alberti Machine<\/i> we encounter a steam-punk music box, its buttons, levers and dials adjusting a familiar accompanimental pattern until the machine breaks. Bach meets Rube in Goldberg Machine<\/i>, a contraption that careens between variations in a musical chain reaction. Mannheim Machine<\/i> is a clich\u00e9-bot, an unhinged device that furiously spits out distorted musical tropes from the dawn of the symphony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Strange Machines, a new work for the Balourdet Quartet, will be premiered in the group’s 2022\u20132023 season, including a performance at Wigmore Hall. The work is commissioned with support from a Chamber Music America Commissioning Grant Strange Machines imagines three quirky musical automata. In Alberti Machine we encounter a steam-punk music box, its buttons, levers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5581,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>S<\/span>trange Machines<\/i>, a new work for the Balourdet Quartet<\/a>, will be premiered in the group’s 2022\u20132023 season, including a performance at Wigmore Hall. The work is commissioned with support from a Chamber Music America<\/a> Commissioning Grant<\/p>\n