VIDEO: Daniel Wohl's New Release 'Corpus'

Brooklyn-based electroacoustic composer/performer Daniel Wohl, praised as one of his generation's "imaginative and skillful creators" (The New York Times), has premiered the video for the track "Corpus" on music site I Care If You Listen. A wistful blend of sparse, poignant vocals (Julia Holter) with melancholic strings, percussion, piano and bass clarinet, the track is from Wohl's forthcoming debut album Corps Exquis (out digitally June 4 and physically June 25on New Amsterdam Records). The album also features performances by acclaimed new music ensemble TRANSIT, Aaron Roche, and So Percussion in addition to Holter.

Wohl will celebrate the album's release with a full-length multimedia performance of Corps Exquis at Brooklyn's Roulette featuring TRANSIT (with Wohl on electronics) as well as video pieces inspired by each track that were created by some of today's most accomplished visual artists: Antoine Catala, Alexis Gambis, Satan's Pearl Horses, Andrew Steinmetz & Teddy Stern, Brina Thurston, and Yui Kugimiya.

The concert will also feature a set by violist Nadia Sirota, who will perform selections from her recent solo album, Baroque (New Amsterdam Records). Missy Mazzoli will join Sirota for a rendition of Mazzoli's composition "Tooth and Nail." This performance marks the first time since the release of Baroque that these two will share a stage.

Corps Exquis live:

Daniel Wohl and TRANSIT perform Corps Exquis

feat. a set by Nadia Sirota w/ Missy Mazzoli

Tuesday, June 4th 8PM

Presented by Ear Heart Music and featuring video from seven separate visual artists at Roulette (509 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, NY)

Tickets: $15 ($10 members/students/seniors)

Event link: http://roulette.org/events/ear-heart-music-transit-new-music-corps-exquis/

Acclaimed as one of the young artists "shaping our contemporary music scene and defining what it means to be a composer in the 21st century" (NPR) and heralded for his ability to "blur the line between electronic and acoustic instrumentation and seemingly melt both elements into a greater organic whole" (WNYC), Paris-born Wohl creates a remarkable hybrid of music that is part-mechanical and part-organic on the aptly titled album Corps Exquis - a French term that translates in English as "Exquisite Body." Instead of exploring the gap between his classical composition background and his collaborations within the ever-evolving electronic music scene (recently with Laurel Halo and Julia Holter at the Ecstatic Music Festival), Wohl strives to close it. The result is an utterly dynamic and emotionally-charged work in which the acoustic and electronic sounds seamlessly intertwine to the point of becoming one.

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