Fear No Music

“Eine Brise” (“A Breeze”) by Mauricio Kagel’s concert Monday June 14: What a success!!!!

LISTEN to Andrea Murray’s coverage of the event below:

FNM – bike music

Big thanks to Stephanie @ Pedalpalooza and the volunteers that helped carry the 5-octave marimba plus all the stands and whatnot to the top of Mt. Tabor on their bikes, !!!! Jeff Payne @ FNM for organizing the event, and Paloma Griffin @ FNM for all the social media networking.

For those asking about the program that FNM performed after Kagel’s piece, here it is:

“Riff” from Vermillion Suite for Unaccompanied Cello by Peter Schickele.

Tomas Svoboda: Elusive Echoes-originally for violin and xylophone, performed by Inés Voglar, violin and Joël Belgique, viola

Osvaldo Golijov: Mariel- for cello and marimba, performed by Nancy Ives, cello, and Joel Bluestone, marimba

Grace Trang (8 years-old student from the Young Composer Project): Royal Banquet- for violin and cello, performed by Inés Voglar, violin and Nancy Ives, cello

Fear No Music presented the first Portland performance of “Eine Brise” (“a breeze”) by composer-trickster Mauricio Kagel last night at the top of Mt. Tabor. Scored for 111 bicyclists riding in a tight, controlled formation, and playing bells, whistling, humming and making tongue-clucks, the performance was part of Pedalpalooza 2010. We were lucky to have no rain, although cold, we were able to perform for the audience and cyclists that participated in Kagel’s piece. We can now say that we fear no weather, since we have performed at 106 degrees  and 57 degrees Fahrenheit.

Nothing to fear but no music

Since 1992 fEARnoMUSIC has earned a reputation for pushing the boundaries and challenging ourselves with exciting programs and collaborations.

“It would be hard to top a concert by a group that lives up to its name – Fear No Music… one of the most unusual programs of the year.” —The Oregonian

fEARnoMUSIC has consistently pushed the limits of chamber music, performing works that have united them with a taiko ensemble, the zheng, the didgeridoo, the shakuhachi, the theremin, electronics, and multi-media videos. The group has worked to foster new audiences by regularly joining with local artists and collaborating with different genres.

In the summer of 2009 FNM was the only classical music group that performed at the PDX Pop Now 2009 Festival, and was received with great enthusiasm:

“Fear No Music just played the rockinest set that’s ever included a waterphone, I’d wager.” —pdxpop.

Also, we had our Pioneer Place debut as Oregon 150 partners at the HAPPY HOUR.

Fearless new website

As you can see, we now have a brand new website by HELSINQI, with a new look to match our print programs, and a host of new features. Enjoy — and thanks for visiting us!