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RAM DANCES
Random Access Music
Tokyo to New York

Martha Grahm Studios
Nov. 14, 2025 at 8pm
Nov. 15, 2025 at 8pm
Martha Graham Studio Theater
55 Bethune St, 11th floor, New York, NY 10014

Tickets: $25 Adults / $10 Students
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Random Access Music and Tokyo to New York bring innovation, movement, and sound together in RAM Dances, a two-night event at the Martha Graham Studio Theater on November 14 and 15, 2025.

This program celebrates the exchange between music and dance, featuring acclaimed dancer and choreographer Henning Rübsam in dynamic new collaborations with the composers and performers of RAM.

Rübsam and composer Beata Moon, who have collaborated since 1992, present the world premiere of “ASSEMBLY,” in which Rübsam will be joined onstage by longtime dance partner Violetta Klimczewska. Hélène Taddei Lawson and Rübsam choreograph and dance the world premiere of “STARDUST” to music by Masatora Goya.

The evening brings together a critically acclaimed lineup of musicians:

Lish Lindsey (flutes), Thomas Piercy (clarinet and hichiriki), Sabina Torosjan (violin), Molly Aronson (cello), and Marina Iwao (piano). ​​

​ The concert presents three world premieres commissioned by Random Access Music and Thomas Piercy—new works by Beata Moon, Frances White, and Andrea Casarrubios—together with recent compositions by Masatora Goya and Roger Stubblefield.

As part of the “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” project, audiences will also hear the premieres of 15 one-minute duos for hichiriki and low flutes.

Compposers included in this set of 15 are: Nantenaina Andriamorasata, Vahan Luder Artinian, David Bohn, Ross James Carey, Monica Chew, Philip Czapłowski, Douglas DaSilva, Paolo Geminiani, Simon Hutchinson, Sakiko Kosaka, Matt A. Mason, Gene Pritsker, Allen Schulz, Jane Wang, and Dalen Wuest.

These miniature works, performed by Thomas Piercy (hichiriki) and Lish Lindsey (flutes), explore the delicate interplay between East and West—melding the sounds of the ancient Japanese instrument with the sound of the modern Western instrument.

Vox Novus is please to announce
composers selected for
FIFTEEN MINUTES OF FAME
Featuring Dániel Váczi and the Glissotar

Vox Novus is thrilled to announce the selected composers for Fifteen Minutes of Fame featuring Dániel Váczi and his remarkable invention, the Glissotar—a member of the revolutionary Glissonic family of instruments.

Dániel Váczi is one of Hungary’s most exciting and versatile musical innovators: a composer, saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, theorist, and inventor. As creator of both new musical systems and instrument designs, Váczi explores the intersection of science, sound, and philosophy. His “reticular” system connects pitch with temporal position—a musical spacetime—while his Glissonic instruments replace traditional tone holes with a magnetic ribbon that allows for continuous glissando and microtonal precision across a full pitch continuum.

This Fifteen Minutes of Fame collection invites fifteen composers from around the world to respond to the expressive potential of the Glissotar, a glissonic tárogató (a Hungarian single-reed instrument akin to a wooden soprano saxophone). Each one-minute piece showcases the instrument’s fluid pitch motion, extended techniques, and unique timbral world—pushing the limits of wind performance and composition alike.

Selected Composers

From jazz-inflected etudes and nature-inspired studies to microtonal textures and playful experiments in sound, these fifteen new works celebrate the spirit of invention embodied by Dániel Váczi and the Glissotar.

For more about Dániel Váczi and the Glissonic project, visit https://danielvaczi.hu/