Mind on Fire presents two super-big, semi-theatrical, musical works by two of Baltimore’s foremost creative minds: David Diongue and Ruby Fulton.

This show will mark the premiere of Diongue’s “I peered to the other side” for a mixed octet and two dancers. It’s music and image about communication, translation, and the transition through the veil of perception.

Fulton’s “Blood of a Poet” accompanies the Jean Cocteau film of the same name. Following the surreal tableau’s of the moving image, Fulton’s music explores warped images of sex, death, violence, art, and snowball fights.

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Mind on Fire presents a night of strings, dance, and arcane-electronic theater.

EN ROUTE is a string trio made up of Erin Snedecor, Kimia Hesabi, and Ami Nasseri. They're be performing new art music by Missy Mazzoli, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Carlos Bandera

ORLANDO JOHNSON and PETER REDGRAVE are two movement artist of the highest, cosmic vintage who will be dancing to the strings.

Lorenzo Baeza as THE WHRD will open the evening with a mystery amalgam of theater, electronic sound, and song. You will not want to miss the opening of the portal.

Come out spend a contemplative Monday evening with us.

Comptoir will be hosting Mind on Fire out back next to the bar. They’ll be serving easy times and nice bevs. You’ll be serving easy conversations and nice ears.

We’ll be serving a wallpapered evening of Cat Lamb’s experimentally ambient “Line Shadow” cut by frenetic solo virtuosities from a quintet of winds and voices, and we’ll be playing the roles of lost sheep in Fred Rzewski’s “Moutons de Panurge.”

featuring - - - ->
Jenny Tscheulin
James Young
Ty Page
Britt Pertsas
Sarah Manley
Allison Clendaniel

Come out, friends. Enjoy the evening, and think about time with us.

The start of a new series from Mind on Fire!

The Chamber Series, led by Sarah Manley and Sam Burt will be featuring a panoply of new esoteric, notated musics from the contemporary planes of complex sound art. Often paired with Baltimore-based visual artists. Start your evening with us and this brief, vivid engagement.

Featuring music by Cat Lamb, Michael Gordon, and Sam Burt

Projections by Nick Geppert

2640 Space (2640 St. Paul Street)

8:00pm show

$10 - $30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED

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"The future of classical music lies in the hands of this full chamber orchestra ensemble, evolving the genre through unconventional compositions." (Baltimore Magazine)

Mind on Fire will present Kate Soper's "Voices from the Killing Jar." Named for the container used by entomologists to carefully kill butterflies, Soper's 2012 masterwork is a song cycle depicting a series of female protagonists caught in “hopeless situations, inescapable fates, impossible fantasies, and other unlucky circumstances.” Using electronics, space, parody, noise, and intense filigree - it is the most virtuosic and technically demanding work we have performed to date.

Rahne Alexander "is thoughtful, fierce, and one hell of a storyteller.” (Hey, Jen Cooper)

Rahne is an artist, musician, writer, award-winning essayist, activist, and front-woman to Santa Librada, a punk band focused on "feminism, transgender rights, love, sex, and the surveillance state." Creator of everything, Alexander will be presenting a provactive set focused on her video art - an index of comedy, routine, parody, and context that often calls our perception of the world into question.

Bobbi Rush "creates evocative arts that speaks to a level of intimacy that is often overlooked in the motions and meticulous schedules of the day." (Week in Pop)

Rush traces the fringe of art pop, RnB, and active poetry. Meditating often on love and bodies in love, her music comes in vulnerable waves - electronic layers of her voice accompanying a solitary, resonant beat. Her work is sparse, sharp, and piercing - a full call for connections to form and flourish.

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Mind on Fire teams up with In the Stacks to present an evening of light, sound, spectralism, and astronomy. Celebrated for "bringing classical music into the 21st Century" (Baltimore Magazine), the widely celebrated In the Stacks concert series has made the historic and beautiful George Peabody Library its home. Paired with spatial masterworks of the 17th century, our featured composer will be Cat Lamb. Lamb’s music, vivid and celestial, has appeared as part of the BBC Proms in 2017, the Ojai New Music Festival, and at Carnegie Hall. Mind on Fire will be performing her ‘Parallaxis Forma,’ music regarding how starlight bends around the earth. In addition, artists Jason Charney and Kevin Blackistone will emphasize the latent magic of the library’s architecture with a light installation and projections.

Admission is FREE with a suggested donation of $10

ARRIVAL INSTRUCTIONS: Doors open at 6 PM, people typically begin lining up around 5:30. There will live pre-show music for folks waiting in the library around 5:45. These events tend to sell out; arriving early is advised.

Mind on Fire sings!

Presenting the music of Meredith Monk, Laura Steenberge, Eve de Castro-Robinson, and a premiere by James Young, we are performing our first ever choral concert. Castro-Robinson's "Chaos of Delight III" turns the choir into birds of the gardens of paradise, trilling and clicking. Steenberge's "Lucretius, my Lucretius" sets the titular philosopher poet in modern context. Monk's "Earth Seen from Above" considers the cosmic unity of all people from the clarifying perspective of space.

Prodigious saxophonist and Horse Lord, Andrew Bernstein, following the release of his album, An Exploded View of Time will play an electrifying solo set. "His playing is ecstatic and discursive, tracing out minimal melodic lines that are at once athletic feats and delightfully free." (Colin Joyce, VICE)

Karagoz Theater Company, a Turkish theater group practicing a style of 500 year old Anatolian shadow puppet theater. They have garnered great acclaim over short time frame, performing the La Mama Puppet Festival, the Great Plains Puppet Train, the National Puppet Festival, and at Baltimore’s own Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Founder Ayhan Hulagu will be presenting “The Magic Tree,” the first piece of Karagoz Theater presented on Broadway.

Admission is FREE thanks to Free Fall Baltimore
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Mind on Fire Program

Chaos of Delight III — Eve de Castro-Robinson

Lucretius, my Lucretius — Laura Steenberge

Six Dog Poems — James Young*

Earth Seen from Above — Meredith Monk

*denotes World Premiere

Mind on Fire Choir
Bonnie Lander
Katelyn Aungst
Kerry Holahan
Allison Clendaniel
Shauna Kreidler Michels
Jaime Leidwinger
Taylor Boykins
Joshua Bornfield
Cameron Falby
Jake Budenz
James Young
Jason Charney

*Free Fall Baltimore is presented by BGE, and is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization.*

May 9 @ 7pm

Walters Art Museum (600 N Charles St)

Mind on Fire presents and evening of meta-opera. We’ll perform ‘KHAAREJ’ by Sahar Te, a work for drum kit and singer ruminating on poetry and meanings lost in translation - featuring a text in farsi meant for a non-native speaker. James Young’s ‘Caliburn’ also appears on the program. For five low winds and soprano, it is a cantata on heat, yelling, transformation, and God.

May 3 @ 8pm

Church on the Square (1025 S Potomac St)

Mind on Fire will be accompanying master choreographer Danah Bella as part of the Music on the Square performance series. In an evening of spectral harmonies and open structures we will explore the intersection of physical movements and sonic fogs - that is - dancing to tunes. Featuring the music of Cat Lamb, Anthony Green, and Moondog.

April 11 @ 8pm

2640 Space (2640 St Paul St)

OUR NEXT MAINSTAGE SHOW

Mind on Fire is playing a living set of musical kinetics. Composer Chris Dietz’s ‘Contretemps’ features the orchestra divided against itself. Sky Macklay’s ‘Microvariations’ is a codex of rainbow-colored landings in two tuning systems. And we’ll be debuting a brand new work by local sound hero Jamal Moore.

ALSO

Soul Cannon, violet off the release of their eponymous album, will present their special brand of ultra-filigree, futurist hip-hop. 

AND

Comic Jessica Murphy Garrett will place words in specific orders and timings to create joy and delight. You may yourself find both of these feelings on April 11.