Open Concerts and Musical Performances
Great Engines Hall - Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
2450 Beacon St.
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
November 8, 2024, 8pm
As part of Villa Albertine’s new Power(s) of Water festival,
join us on November 8 at 8pm for an exceptional series of
concerts by Romeo Poirier and Kristina Warren.
Taking place in the Great Engines Hall of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum,
the performances will offer an exploration of soundscapes where nostalgia
meets experimentation, while encouraging attentive collective listening. The
audience will be invited to engage deeply with the music, enjoying sonic innovation and meticulous orchestration.
Villa Albertine, Non-Event, the Goethe-Institut Boston and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum, are thrilled to present a pair of site-responsive solo performances by French and Belgian artist Roméo Poirier and American artist Kristina Warren.
Roméo Poirier is a French electronic musician, who creates highly-textured, hybrid digital analog sound collages. He has released albums on the London-based record label Kit Records (Plage Arrière), the mancunian label Sferic (Hotel Nota) and Jan Jelinek’s Berlin-based imprint Faitiche (Living Room), transforming the layering of different times into a free-flowing pulse that sounds both nostalgic and mysteriously ahistorical.
Kristina Warren is a sound artist, composer, performer, and instrument
builder-based on Wampanoag and Narragansett land also known as
Providence, Rhode Island. Both in solo projects and in collaborative work
including curating, Warren believes that collective listening is a precious
and political act. Warren uses self-designed and received audio tools to create
performances, installations, and recorded works, whose recent “ASMR drone”
style uses quieter volumes and careful orchestrations to help audiences perceive
their own listening.
Free with RSVP.
In partnership with
Consulat général de France à Boston
The Consulate general of France in Boston is the consular representation of the French Republic in New-England (Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont). It includes consular, cultural and scientific services.
Goethe-Institut Boston
Non-Event
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum
The Waterworks Museum interprets the unique stories of one of the country’s first metropolitan water systems through exhibitions and educational programs on engineering, architecture, social history, public health, and Safe Water Access.
Veolia
Institut français
The Institut français is responsible for France’s international cultural program. Supervised by both the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs and by the Ministry of Culture, it promotes French culture abroad through cultural exchange initiatives. Operating in a space where the arts, intellectual exchange, cultural and social innovation, and linguistic partnerships interact and intersect, it is also responsible for promoting the French language and the sharing of works, artists, and ideas all over the world. The Institut français is one of Villa Albertine’s main French partners.
Franco-German Cultural Fund