Roomful of Teeth with Allison Loggins-Hull

Originally founded in 2009, two-time Grammy Award-winning vocal supergroup Roomful of Teeth relentlessly pushes the boundaries of the human voice. They have rapidly established themselves as leaders and innovators in the field of contemporary music making, incorporating an array of disparate singing techniques, unique vocalizations, multimedia engagement and collaboration with the field’s most daring creators.

Their Schubert Club Mix program will include a new work by Allison Loggins-Hull, entilted FRICTION. This debut collaboration weaves a striking tapestry of songs, composed by Loggins-Hull, delving into the intricate dance between the forces that shape us. Those forces—our influences, inheritances, relationships—like friction itself, generate both light and heat, and have the capacity to reveal our greatest strengths and most closely held flaws.

The songs of FRICTION are deeply personal and unapologetically vulnerable. With texts drawn as messages to and from the composer’s past and future selves, the music is entrancing in its marriage of intimate chamber singing and modern music production. Here, the lines between acoustic and electronic blur and bend, to capture through music the entanglement of joy and anxiety that every person experiences.