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SWARMIUS
Music Sample: Intelligent Designs [Excerpt]
Music Sample: Labyrinth of Leaves, Scanned at Flutter Speed for Ultra-Violet Nectar Glow [Excerpt]


SWARMIUS comprises SAXIMUS (aka Todd Rewoldt), FIDDLUS (aka Felix Olschofka), Dancer/Choreographer SAMMY D. (aka Joe Alter), and Electro-Acoustic Composer/Laptop Performer Jozefius Vaatierz Rattus (aka Joseph Waters). The quartet is committed to expanding the avant-garde classical literature to encompass a New Relevance. The New Relevance demands works that are non-elitist, rigorous, and multi-level: works that are simultaneously accessible and challenging. To this end, SWARMIUS combines traditional virtuosity with a search for new timbres, performance practices, and 21st century cross-cultural aesthetic reflection. It challenges timeworn, outmoded norms for the uses of classical music, the means by which it is presented, and the venues in which it is experienced. SWARMIUS unites performers, composer, and choreographer, focuses them on a common goal, and puts them onstage together. SWARMIUS is in residence at the School of Music and Dance at San Diego State University, home for 17 years of the maverick genius Harry Partch Ensemble. SWARMIUS strives to emulate Partch's uncompromising aesthetic values.




















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