Both Tampa Bay Times and Creative Loafing are recommending tonight’s program by Elizabeth A. Baker, Intersect, which premiers in the Side Door at 7:30.
Baker will be joined by local pianist John O’Leary, Tampa Bay native turned Oakland-based composer/improvisor Nathan Corder, Oakland-based saxophonist Tom Weeks, and Toronto-based saxophonist Robert Hess for an evening of spontaneous compositions, graphic scores, and interactive visual media.
Elizabeth A. Baker
Intersect is a collaborative evening which explores the connectivity of individual voices and the product diverse voices as a unit. The program which was developed with as much emphasis on social justice and the responsibility of curators to present opportunities for underrepresented artists’ work to be integrated.
Intersect is about connections and dialogue, all the graphic scores for the evening are by trans, femme, nonbinary, queer, and black individuals, covering a host of topics but chiefly exploring science and energy through the medium of sound. Intersect is also about a meeting of diverse geographic styles and philosophical ideas.
Tickets for tonight’s musical event range from $15 to $30. For tickets and more information you can follow this link.
The Tampa Bay Times included Baker’s Intersect as one of the top picks for the weekend. Here’s what Jay Cridlin of the Times said:
Saying Elizabeth A. Baker plays toy pianos is like saying the Hubble telescope takes photos.
The St. Petersburg experimental composer, author and co-founder of the Florida International Toy Piano Festival creates deep and evocative compositions from an array of instruments — toy pianos among them — that feel particularly engrossing in a live setting. She has performed, and her work has been performed, as far away as Europe. But her latest program, Intersect, will bring performers from around the world to her. The performance will feature sounds, words and visuals from artists of color and in the LGBTQ community creating “connections and dialogue” about the world we live in.
“It is work that I have presented across North America, but haven’t had the chance to present here at home,” she said in an email. “Hopefully, in coming to this performance, my hometown understands a little bit more about what I’m doing on the outside of our borders, why people are commending me for pushing boundaries in my field, and the uniqueness of the whole experience will be a source of communal pride.”
To see more from the TB Times follow this link.
And Ray Roa, of Creative Loafing, offered a full story on Baker that includes this nugget:
Thursday’s presentation of “Intersect” — a collaborative evening which explores the connectivity of individual voices and the product of diverse voices as a unit — will be the last local performance from self-described “New Renaissance Artist” Elizabeth A. Baker. The show finds Tampa Bay expat and composer Nathan Corder flying in from the west coast to help out. All the graphic scores are by trans, femme, nonbinary, queer, and black individuals who’ll cover a host of topics but chiefly explore science and energy through the medium of sound.
To read Ray’s full story follow this link.
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