Echoes of Joni por Attica Ensamble, Online, December 11, 1pm CDT

Posted December 07, 2021

My name is Jan Foote, I'm a composer of experimental classical music and I'm doing a PhD at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

I recently wrote a new piece called Echoes of Joni, which is a 40-minute work of experimental music composed for Attica Ensamble, a Mexican ensemble of amplified classical music.

The piece that doesn't sound much like Joni's music, but her songs permeate the entire piece, albeit in a rather hidden way. I was particularly inspired by the albums, Hejira, Hissing of the Summer Lawns and Don Juan's Reckless Daughter.

I took the idea of travel as a concept from Hejira as well, but instead of telling stories of travel, I tried to compose a continually changing landscape of ambient sound.

Echoes of Joni will be premiered online as part of the Fonoteca Nacional's 'Contigo en la distancia' series on the 11th December at 13:00 Central time. It will be shown on their youtube and facebook channels. More information here.