After Nothing Comes
based on the book by Aidan Koch
2021 | 52 minutes
for three voices, sax quartet, viola, cello, and bass
Program Note
“Aidan Koch makes comics about moods and moments, marks and symbols. They are drawn in a diaphanous, haptic style that suggests dreams and memories. In washes of ink, pencil smudges, white paint, and traces of drawings removed, Koch creates resonate tone poems on paper.
’After Nothing Comes’ collects six significant, out-of-print zines by Koch that track the development of her poetic approach to the form.”
After Nothing Comes (digital premiere)
May 6, 2021
Music by Dan Langa
Text and Images by Aidan Koch
Soprano Voice - Mim Crellin
Alto Voice - Sabeth Pérez
Tenor Voice - Daniel Castellanos
Soprano & Alto Saxophone - Sunhyun Yoo
Tenor Saxophone - Stratøs
Tenor Saxophone - Blake Opper
Viola - Maxim Estevez-Curtis
Cello - Sam Johnson
Double Bass - Lindsay Rosenberg
Dolan Studio Engineers – Julian Cornell and Cale Bonderman
Mix - Dan Langa
This recording of “After Nothing Comes” was made possible with support from the Amherst College Edward Poole Lay Fellowship and NYU Steinhardt Student Research and Creative Project Grant.
