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Sospeso’s objective is simply to bring concert music written since 1960 to new and diverse audiences in live performance: in part, through collaborations with poets, painters, filmmakers, dancers, and other artists. Sospeso aims for a rich interpretation of contemporary music by presenting it in the widest possible cultural context.
Sospeso’s commitment to interdisciplinary projects has found its expression in collaborations involving filmmakers such as
Hal Hartley, Werner
Herzog, and Nicholas Roeg; poets such as
John Ashbery and Michel
Deguy; museums such as the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art; and other institutions, like the IRCAM, the world’s foremost electronic music studio and research facility.
The name sospeso itself is Italian for suspended: the suspension, or questioning, of cultural categories, of the place of music and its relationship to other media.
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