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Soundings: Travis Laplante

February 20, 2020

$30 – $35

This Soundings season’s musician in residence is saxophonist, composer, qigong practitioner and Renaissance Man Travis Laplante, who divides his time between Brooklyn and southern Vermont.

Laplante is an astonishing technician, extending possibilities of the tenor saxophone into new territories that encompass the avant-garde, contemporary jazz and classical, world music, and beyond, swirled into a transformative artistic experience. His mastery of circular breathing, multiphonics and harmonics is virtuosic, and he’s likely to produce dizzying torrents of sound—it’s music as primal therapy, musician as shaman. His six-day residency will involve concerts in Nasher Hall, as well as in the galleries and sculpture garden. As a Pied Piper of improv and the moment, Laplante performances could lead audiences anywhere. “There’s nothing that Travis does that is not rooted in a kind of emotional psychology,” Seth Knopp maintains. “With all his techniques, it’s almost as if he wails beyond what’s humanly, physically possible, but he represents the emotion behind the wail. If he could go on wailing forever he would. It’s incredibly powerful.”

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Details

Date:
February 20, 2020
Cost:
$30 – $35
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Website:
https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/programs-events/event/id/1637#!/

Organizer

Nasher Sculpture Center
Phone:
2142425100
Email:
publicrelations@nashersculpturecenter.org
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Other

Artists
Travis Laplante
Artwork Medium
Sound
Event Type
Performance

Venue

Nasher Sculpture Center
2001 Flora Street
Dallas, TX 75201 United States
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