Fugitive Sound Experience III
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6 – 7:30 PM
Plains Art Museum

Fugitive Sound Experience continues its resonant inquiry into the politics of listening, presence, and liberation through sound. In this third installment, musicians Eduard Teregulov (cello), Albina Khaliapova (piano), and Victor Avila Luvsangeden (violin) perform a bold and emotionally textured program featuring works by contemporary (living) composers from historically underrepresented communities.

Featuring compositions by Crystal Birdsong, Allison Loggins-Hull, Nyokabi Kariũki, Brian Raphael Nabors, and H. Leslie Adams, the evening spans meditative textures, rhythmic urgency, and lyrical resilience. This program enters into dialogue with Alfred Conteh’s Malik and Marquis, a portrait of two young boys whose presence within the gallery asks us to consider how Black life is imagined, represented, and preserved within structures that resist its thriving.

Inspired by Hartman’s evocation of the fugitive, Fugitive Sound Experience invites us to stay in motion, to listen without needing resolution, and to witness different ways of composing life. Join us for an evening where performance becomes presence and sound becomes shelter and possibility.

Performance list:

• A Certain Times of Day by Crystal Birdsong 10”
i. Bright and Early
ii. Snooze Button
iii. Variations on Running Late
iv. Losing Track of Time
v. Rush Hour

• Stolen for solo cello by Allison Loggins-Hull 6”

• Arabuko by Nyokabi Kariũki 6”

• The Traveler’s Dilemma by Nyokabi Kariũki 3”

• Rhapsody No. 2 by Jessie Montgomery 6”

• Sonata by Brian Raphael Nabors “9
III. Leggiero

• Aria for cello and piano by H. Leslie Adams 5”

Generous support for this project provided by Art Bridges.

Fugitive Sound Experience III

An evening promising meditative textures, rhythmic urgency, and lyrical resilience.