Original Gravity Concert Series Celebrates Mass Beer Week with Paula Matthusen

On Thursday, May 4, Original Gravity ENTRANCES you with its season finale, featuring the stellar music of Paula Matthusen paired with the beer of Idle Hands Craft Ales!
Paula Matthusen's unique compositional style amplifies and expounds on the secret sounds that encompass our every day lives-transforming the mundane into the fantastical and entrancing. Brett Bauer, master brewer at Idle Hands Craft Ales, has listened to Paula's works and is fashioning a one-night only adventurous brett-fermented Belgian to pair with Paula's soundscapes. This quixotic brew will only be available the night of the concert.

In the brewer's words: "In the spirit of taking classic instruments and using them for dissonance and experimentation as I've heard throughout attending the Original Gravity Concert Series, we have decided to take some of our simple and clean Heide wort and fermented it using a combination of Belgian ale strains with brettanomyces bruxellensis. What was originally destined to become our clean and light hells lager has been transformed into a funky, fruity and spicy brett Belgian pale ale."

Heralded as Boston's Best Buzzworthy Concert Series 2016 by the Improper Bostonian, Original Gravity is a sell-out concert series that harmonizes live modern music by regional composers with the artistry of local craft breweries.

We will be joined by the best new music artists in New England to bring this music to life:

• Terri Hron, recorder
• Trevor Babb, guitar, banjo
• Mike Avitabile, flute
• Amy Advocat, clarinet

Tickets to Original Gravity's ENTRANCEMENT are $15, on sale now. Student and senior tickets available for $10 with valid ID.

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About Original Gravity

Curated by local pianist and composer Keith Kirchoff, Original Gravity Concert Series takes modern classical music out of the concert hall and presents it in an informal, fun environment: a brewery. Committed to the music of New England composers, the Original Gravity crew collaborates with the host brewers to design a beer specifically in tune with the artist's work, creating a blended synchronicity of sound and zymurgy.
Keith Kirchoff (Artistic Director) is a pianist, composer, and Vice President of the Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). Specializing in works which combine interactive electronics with solo piano, his Electro-Acoustic Piano tour has been presented in six countries. Keith is also an accomplished homebrewer and beer connoisseur, having travelled extensively in the United States and abroad in search of the perfect pint.

Paula Matthusen (Featured Composer) writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound installations. In addition to writing for a variety of different ensembles, she also collaborates with choreographers and theater companies. She has written for diverse instrumentations, such as "run-on sentence of the pavement" for piano, ping-pong balls, and electronics, which Alex Ross of The New Yorker noted as being "entrancing". Her work often considers discrepancies in musical space-real, imagined, and remembered.

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