Dear AIR Listeners and Clocktower Gallery Goers, 

AIR is proud to present The Starry Garter: A Certain Point Within A Sphere, a radio theater performance by audio artist and composer Sabisha Friedberg, on April 1, 2011 at 6 pm live at the Clocktower Gallery. The event is free and open to the public. 

Composed as part of an Audio Art Clocktower Residency, The Starry Garter is a sonic poem for radio that combines elements of sound art, radio theater, film, and music to examine themes of transmutation, spirituality, and redemption.

Based on the Hermetic tale Etidorhpa, or the end of the earth: the strange history of a mysterious being and the account of a remarkable journey, Friedberg's work reinvents traditional radio theater by emphasizing the text’s sonic elements with atomized dialog, an electro-acoustic process, interludes of acoustic cello, piano, and chorus, and vintage foley work. Friedberg’s performance of The Starry Garter in the Clocktower Gallery will also be broadcast live on AIR’s radio station, ARTonAIR.org.

Performing with Friedberg are counter tenor Anthony Costanzo, baritone Evan Hughes, soprano Nina Berman, pianist/composer Gregory Spears, cellist Meaghan Burke, foley artist Ted Robison, and radio actors Richard Kohn, Gus Weinstein, David Cohen, and Toby Wherry.

Visit us at ARTonAIR.org, write us at info@artonair.org, or like us on Facebook for more information. 

The Clocktower Gallery is located in a City-owned building at 108 Leonard Street between Broadway and Lafayette so please remember to bring you ID card to pass through security. Enter through the grey door under the scaffolding and take the elevator to the 12th Floor. Take a left, enter through the red staircase B door, and walk up to the 13th Floor. The AIR offices and studios are down the corridor.

Yours, 

The AIR Team