About this event
Constellation hosts the Chicago premiere of a [time] patterned, taken from harpist Lara Somogyi's second full-length work: a contemporary harp album constructing sonic environments, exploring how time is felt, shaped, and experienced through sound. Built from harp, pedal textures and electronics, virtuosic arpeggios, stacked tape machines, ambient processing, contemporary extended harp techniques, graphic scored symphonic language, string orchestra, and field recordings, the album constructs time not as a linear experience—but as an emotional landscape. Through the process of writing, Somogyi found that time is not something she perceives linearly, but sensorially — through patterns, texture, resonance, and subtle shifts in feeling. In this way, the album centers on an idea that soon emerged: music decorates time. Rooted in a classical and symphonic sensibility, the work expands through a contemporary lens, as Lara continues to stretch the traditional forms and shift how harp is heard. A central pillar of the record was to parallel innovative time-based processes into light, exploring how these approaches can shift the way time is perceived through sound.
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Constellation
3111 N Western Ave · Chicago · IL