A PLACE TO BE AND A PLACE TO DREAM

A Long-Awaited Return: Church Street United Methodist Church

Big Ears is thrilled to be returning to the beautiful Church Street United Methodist Church, presenting a rich and immersive 3-day experience of music and light, in partnership with lighting, sound, and space platform, Reflections. 

Reflections

Founded by Bob Maynard and Brandon Shotwell

Reflections unites sound, light, and sacred architecture to recreate uniquely visceral experiences.  During their 3-day residency at Big Ears, they’ll create site-specific lighting during the day, courtesy of visualist Eric Epstein. As the sun sets, the experience will shift deeper into the sublime, featuring the visionary performances of legends like Steve Roach and William Basinski as well as a new generation of sonic explorers like Arushi Jain and Flore Laurentienne.

During Big Ears weekend, Church Street UMC will be a place to be and a space to dream.

Steve Roach

Drawing from a vast, unique and deeply personal authenticity, Steve Roach’s albums are fueled by the momentum of a lifetime dedicated to the soundcurrent. Roach is an artist operating at the pinnacle of his career, driven by a passion and unbroken focus that lives within the soul-stirring depth of his music. 

Flore Laurentienne

Flore Laurentienne is an open window to the technicolor soundscapes of Mathieu David Gagnon – the Canadian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who shapes vast orchestral sound to interpret the rugged wilderness and waters of his native Québec.

Arushi Jain

Modular synthesizer in hand, Arushi Jain creates compositions inspired by Hindustani classical ragas, re-imagined with the tools and technologies she learned as a synthesist and technologist in the Bay Area.

William Basinski

While artists ditched tape for synths in the ’70s and ’80s, William Basinski was building an archive of transmissions in a New York loft, combining looped melodic fragments with shortwave static and city sounds seeping through the windows.