Crandell Theatre
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – Nsenene / Grasshopper Republic
Crandell TheatreDATE: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 8:30 pm ____________________________________ Film with Live Score / Music Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe weaves together voice and modular synthesis for Nsenene, a live interpretation of the score to the film Grasshopper Republic. Filmed over three years in Uganda and directed by Daniel McCabe, this documentary follows a team of grasshopper […]
Ben LaMar Gay – Cold Was the Ground
Crandell TheatreDATE: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 8:30 pm _______________________________________ Music Ben LaMar Gay is a composer and cornetist who moves sound, color, and space through folkloric filters to produce electro-acoustic collages. A Chicago native, Ben’s true technique is giving life to an idea while exploring and expanding on the term ‘Americana.’ With his band, the Ben […]
Natural Information Society – Perseverance Flow
Crandell TheatreDATE: Thursday, February 19, 2026 8:30 pm ____________________________________ Natural Information Society (NIS) is a band led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams. The group’s music is grounded in Abrams’ hypnotic and interwoven writing. Performing with Lisa Alvarado’s free hanging paintings as mobile sets, NIS creates environments at once meditative and propulsive, which navigate forms that […]
Music by Peni Candra Rini with Andy McGraw / Director Garin Nugroho – Setan Jawa
Crandell TheatreDATE: Friday, February 20, 2026 8:30 pm ___________________________________ Film with Live Score / Music Setio, a young poor man, falls in love with Asih, a beautiful aristocrat, but the woman’s family rejects his marriage proposal. Despairing, he makes a deal with the devil so he can spend the rest of his life with the woman […]
David Lang & Bill Morrison / Ensemble Contemporaneous – darker
Crandell TheatreDATE: Saturday, February 21, 2026 8:30 pm ______________________________________ Film with Live Score / Music Live film score performed by Ensemble Contemporaneous David Lang and Bill Morrison have collaborated for nearly 25 years and darker is their tenth collaboration. Lang and Morrison drew inspiration from a minimal score to create a film that, like the music, […]
