Quartet Cordis to perform progressive chamber music
The group will perform its unique style of progressive, post-rock chamber music, which involves a fusion of traditional and custom-made ethnic instruments, resulting in a gritty yet cerebral punk/rock aesthetic. In addition to its signature timbre of the electric cimbalom, Cordis further crafts its sound by weaving one-of-a-kind creations such as electric mbiras, modified typewriters, pitched wind tubes, 19th-century talking machines and the world's longest-playing cylinder-driven music box into the mix. The four-man band features Richard Grimes, electric cimbalomist and founder/composer; Andrew Beall, multi-percussionist; Jeremy Harman, electro-acoustic cellist; and Dan Padgett, pianist/keyboardist.
The group has performed in many venues from theaters to festivals to concerts. Grimes is the primary composer for Cordis, but the band plays works by noted modernist composers Philip Glass, Chick Corea and Igor Stravinsky.
"We all come from an indie and punk background, but the fact is music as we know it has been shifting and evolving since the advent of the tempered scale," said Beall. "What Cordis represents is a step in that ongoing process. To that end, "Seams" offers further crystallizing of our vision of what this new stream of chamber music can be."
In addition to concerts, Cordis offers master classes in music at colleges and universities and outreach programs for thousands of children throughout North America.
For more information, contact Amy Tully, associate dean of the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts, at atully@coastal.edu or 843-349-2352. For tickets, call the Wheelwright Box Office at 843-349-ARTS (2787) or visit coastal.edu/culturalarts. Box office hours are Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The box office Wheelwright is located at 108 Spadoni Park Circle on the Conway campus.