“WHAT IF I WANT TO DIRECTLY HELP ~NOIS CREATE NEW ART?”

Sunthrower - Darian Donovan Thomas

Half of mediaqueer and the violinist of Moses Sumney/Arooj Aftab, we have worked with Darian when he made his amazing remix of our Emma O’Halloran Night Music Single. Now we have asked him to write some of his own music for us. Sunthrower will premiere in December at our Wired show and will feature the quartet accompanied by an electronic track.

I Tell You Me - Annika Socolofsky

Annika Socolofsky is a composer and avant folk vocalist who explores corners and colors of the voice frequently deemed to be "untrained" and not "classical." Described as “unbearably moving” (Gramophone) and “just the right balance between edgy precision and freewheeling exuberance” (The Guardian), her music erupts from the embodied power of the human voice and is communicated through mediums ranging from orchestral and operatic works to unaccompanied folk ballads and unapologetically joyous Dolly Parton covers. Annika writes extensively for her own voice, including composing a growing repertoire of “feminist rager-lullabies” titled Don’t say a word, which serves to confront centuries of damaging lessons taught to young children by retelling old lullaby texts for a new, queer era. Her research focuses on contemporary vocal music, using the music of Dolly Parton to create a pedagogical approach to composition that is inclusive of a wide range of vocal qualities, genres, and colors. She is Assistant Professor of Composition at the University of Colorado Boulder, and is the recipient of the 2021 Gaudeamus Award. She holds her PhD in Composition from Princeton University.

Where it’s been: I Tell You Me was recognized by the Chicago Tribune as “grotesquely gorgeous… among the most captivating compositions heard the whole festival [Ear Taxi 2021]” and was included in their “Chicago's Top 10 for classical music, opera and jazz that defined 2021”.

In our 2021-22 season we performed this work with Annika and our friend Andrea Edith-Moore in Illinois, North Carolina, and Colorado. We also made a studio recording of the work with Annika to be released next season!

WATCH the highly anticipated (by our moms) TRAILER

Where it’s going: We will be performing this with vocalist Amy Petrongelli this upcoming year in Texas and also highlighting the work in our brand-new series Refraction.

What we need: This project is one of our most ambitious to date, and we need your help to see it through. By supporting this project, you are helping to pay talented vocal artists to sing with us as well as administrative expenses related to the performance of the work, such as venue rental fees and travel expenses.

Where it’s going: In November 2022, we will be recording the studio version of birthday party for an upcoming Vines EP, in addition to presenting it in NYC in January 2023.

“It’s a vibe” as our Gen Z friends would say

birthday party - Vines

We have had the joy of collaborating with our talented friend and composer Cassie Wieland as we prepare to record and release her hauntingly beautiful work for ~Nois, gossamer. In the meantime, she has created a whole new project that we’re thrilled to be a part of. Under her new identity “Vines”, Cassie explores the saxophone quartet as an accompaniment to her vocals, with vocoders, synths, and electronics creating an ethereal and pop-infused series of songs that is unlike anything you’ve ever heard ~Nois play.

Where it’s been: ~Nois first premiered birthday party at Evanston SPACE with Cassie in February of 2022. A New York premiere of the work at Roulette Intermedium was scheduled for May of 2022, but has been delayed due to COVID-19.

Kinds of ~Nois

Coming Soon!