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artist, musician, scholar || free 🇵🇸 , f*ck 🧊 || Model Home at @_smoca Sep 25 - Feb 7
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“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off—then, I account it high time to get to the sea as soon as I can.” (Moby Dick; Or, The Whale) So much to say about two weeks in Maine! Thanks to the @colbycah hosting me as a Fellow for the Summer Institute for Environmental Humanities. So exciting to be surrounding by such brilliant people thinking big thoughts about the places and their ecologies we call and continue to make home. Followed it with a week of other coastal adventures. Brought 10 books and only read Moby Dick (whoops) because I spent too much time swimming and smiling with new and old friends (Pls don’t tell my advisors)!!
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#tbt time! We thought we'd take a moment to look back through May and June and share a few favorite memories from PARTY 2026 and our concerts at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesen. 📸 Party pictures (1-16) by Mike McKenzie (@mmckenziephotography), Taliesin pictures (17-20) by Elizabeth Maske (@weekends.with.wright). Party photos from @hairpin_arts: (1) Professor Bad Trip is in the house; (2) Musicians and listeners catch up before the show; (3) Magic show!; (4) Winston Choi shows off his keyboard skills; (5) Board and staff manning our merch table; (6) Mabel Kwan and co. premiering Santiago Diez-Fischer's new piece; (7-10) Audience and musicians enjoy the sights and sounds of PARTY; (11) Greg Beyer, ready for his next entrance; (12) Niente family and friends; (13) New music power couple Pianist Winston Choi and violinist Minghwan Xu Choi (looking mighty cute, we must say!); (14) Harpist and executive director Ben Melsky; (15) Chris Wild, Ammie Brod, and Jesse Langen mid-performance; (16) The end of the night. Taliesen photos from @taliesinwi: (17) Clarinetist alejandro t. acierto en route to his set; (18) Flutist Emma Hospelhorn and violinist Caitlin Edwards before the show (😍); (19) Alejandro looking pleased with his surroundings; Nientes performing for an appreciative audience at the end of our Taliesin Promenade concert.
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#modulation #ashkansepahvand #🧪 #prepandemic #quantumentanglement @vanderbilt.art @juliastoschekfoundation @roome1027 @agora_collective @kaptcha_fail
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Taliesin w/Dal Niente photo dump! Got to improvise in FLW's residence, sleep in Tan Y Dir, perform in Hillside Theater. If you are ever near Spring Green WI, highly recommend <3
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Soundcheck for today's concert in the Hillside Theater @taliesinwi. Join us at 1:30 for music by @igorseiti, Misato Mochizuki, Romitelli, and more! https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/events
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Join Dal Niente this weekend for a very special pair of shows at frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin. Find out more about these site-specific performances at Wright's Wisconsin residence and register to attend at the link in our profile. Performers: Emma Hospelhorn, Flute Caitlin Edwards, Violin Alejandro Acierto, Clarinet Jesse Langen, Guitar Register here: https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/events More information: https://www.dalniente.com/taliesin
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Now available for download! “The Reader (Volume 1)”, 626 pages, PDF, 250 MB. 📕 Link in bio The Reader (Volume 1) is a furtive collection of beloved teaching texts and the result of an invitation to thirty-three contributors (twenty-seven artist/educators and six critical art theorist/educators) to share with me a reading or text that they consider significant to their teaching and practice. Gathered in conjunction with the 2025-2026 exhibition “Stephanie Syjuco: Present Tense (Roll Call)” at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), the submissions were printed on letter-sized paper and pinned up directly onto the oversized wall installation for the duration of the ten month exhibition. Fluttering in the breeze, the printed pages curl, rustle, and add a sense of aliveness to the work, ultimately gathering together a chorus of voices reflecting larger bodies of knowledge. As I share in the exhibition text it is “a love letter to teaching and learning during fraught times.” As educators we regularly read and collect books and PDFs — often downloaded from the internet as furtively uploaded files, or generously shared by like-minded colleagues. We annotate into the pages, scribble, photocopy, scan, duplicate, print, and create lo-res variations of the originals for our own personal and teaching purposes. We excerpt the content, turning them into lesson plans shared with students, thus creating a cyclical distribution of inquiry and learning. We also write, and in a few cases the submissions are original self-authored texts. *The Reader* is an homage to the myriad forms of hidden work: the artist/educator as community and public intellectual, a creative synthesizer of ideas in connection with others. Full list of contributors in slides 🔥. “Present Tense (Roll Call)” is still on view at @bampfa until June 28, 2026! Stay tuned for future volumes to amplify ideas and knowledge in a time of silencing and disinvestment in education🔥 Ugh, can’t tag more than 20 people, will add in comments soon…
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Next week, Dal Niente heads to Wisconsin for a pair of unique shows at Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin. Wright’s home, studio, and garden sanctuary embodies Wright’s ideas of organic architecture. Ensemble members Alejandro Acierto, Caitlin Edwards, Emma Hospelhorn, and Jesse Langen present two location-specific performances that respond directly to Wright’s ideas of compression, expansion, and space. 🎶 On Saturday evening, guests are invited to move through various spaces within Wright’s main residence where members of Dal Niente will offer site-specific instrumental improvisations – spontaneous musical dialogues that respond directly to each room’s acoustics, design, and atmosphere. 🎶 Then, join us for a special Sunday afternoon concert in the historic Hillside Theater at Taliesin. Featuring works by Igor Santos, Misato Mochizuki, Fausto Romitelli, and more, this performance offers an opportunity to experience the ensemble’s distinctive and boundary-pushing musical voice within one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most acoustically and architecturally compelling spaces. More information and tickets at the link in our profile. Performers: Emma Hospelhorn, Flute Caitlin Edwards, Violin Alejandro Acierto, Clarinet Jesse Langen, Guitar Register here: https://www.taliesinpreservation.org/events More information: https://www.dalniente.com/taliesin
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last few days to catch "open grounds for wholly indeterminate futures" by alejandro t. acierto. show closes May 22. come see it at fried fruit art space before it's gone! photos by @jamestfarley
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A huge THANK YOU to everybody who came out to Party 2026 this past weekend, and to all of you who have supported Dal Niente for the last twenty years. It's been a wild ride, and we're so glad we get to share it with you 💛 Here's to the next twenty!
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As we wrap up our 20th concert season, we're also entering our end-of-year fundraising season. Donations to our Something from Nothing campaign help us to equitably pay our artists, cover production and recording costs, create commissioning opportunities for composers, and support critical infrastructure such as staffing and rehearsal space. Donations are being matched up to $5000, so donate now to double your impact. The future of the art form is what we make it. Let’s make it great. https://www.dalniente.com/support
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As we gear up for our twentieth anniversary PARTY on May 16, we thought we'd take a look back at the very first time we decided to party down. On May 12, 2012, we took over the @hairpinartscenter for an evening of wildly eclectic music, food and drink, and physical and metaphorical space for audience members to create their own listening experience. Fourteen years later, we'll be back in the place where it all started, a little grayer, a little older and (questionably 😂) wiser, but still bringing you some of the best music we know. Join us for an evening of premieres, musical flashbacks, and everything in between. May 16, 2026: Let's PARTY! Tickets at the link in our profile. https://app.arts-people.com/?show=318542
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