Featuring William Brittelle, Erika Dohi, and Timo Vollbrecht
TICKETS – $12 General Admission / $8 for BMCM+AC members + Students w/ID
Join us for an evening performance at BMCM+AC featuring William Brittelle, Erika Dohi, and Timo Vollbrecht. Their performance will expand the universe of Eternal September, an alternate reality project spanning experimental music, video art, installation, and more.
ETERNAL SEPTEMBER is an alternate reality consisting of an ever-expanding network of audio, video, imagery and hypertext. The project was launched in 2021 by Grammy-winning™ composer/producer William Brittelle and is brought to life through artistic residencies, recorded music, ritual capture events, and site-specific installations. Upon completion, all ETERNAL SEPTEMBER content is extensively documented by its own wiki, a system discrete entirely from the IRL internet, and made available to the general public.
ETERNAL SEPTEMBER collaborators, either as individuals or in groups, create content as alternate reality versions of themselves, or “morphs” – a process reflective of the early utopian days of the internet. Morphing allows ETERNAL SEPTEMBER collaborators to freely explore repressed artistic impulses without IRL implications. Thus far, over 50 musicians, visual artists, and creative technologists have contributed to the project, including Immanuel Wilkins, Shahzad Ismaily, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo (Sammus), Morgan Guerin, Holland Andrews, Isaac Gale and members of Broken Social Scene, Wye Oak, Son Lux, and Poliça.
ETERNAL SEPTEMBER ensemble partners include Metropolis and Roomful of Teeth. The project is incubated at the Brown Arts Institute of Brown University. Additional supporting organizations include the Walker Art Museum, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, MIT, the Cincinnati Symphony, the Great Northern Festival, Liquid Music, MASS MoCA, Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, and PS21 Arts Center.
DISCLAIMER:
Eternal September is an ongoing experimental art project that explores the boundaries between reality and fiction through speculative institutionally-based research, media collage, and narrative world-building. The materials presented—whether text, audio, video, or visual—may blend historical fact, fictional invention, and artistic reinterpretation. Unless otherwise stated, all content is intended for non-commercial, transformative, educational, or satirical purposes. Mentions of real people, brands, or entities may appear in fictional or stylized contexts. These appearances are used artistically and are not intended to imply endorsement, affiliation, or factual accuracy. All original works created by contributors to Eternal September are shared under open culture principles, and we respect all applicable copyright laws.
Erika Dohi is a multi-faceted artist with an eclectic musical background. The Osaka-born and New York-based pianist, composer, and vocalist was described as “virtuosic” by The New York Times and a “barrier-defying artist” by Mix Magazine. Moving fluidly between highly polished classical repertoire, electro-acoustic experimentation, and bold improvisation, she has developed a distinctive, unidiomatic approach that sets her apart within New York’s contemporary avant-garde landscape. Her second solo album, Myth of Tomorrow (Switch Hit Records & Figureight), is a sonic meditation on catastrophe, resilience, and rebirth. Her debut solo album, I, Castorpollux (2021), was released on 37d03d. As a performer, Dohi has appeared at the Hollywood Bowl with Metropolis Ensemble opening for Bon Iver, Central Park SummerStage, Big Ears Festival, Vision Festival, Harlem Stage, SFJAZZ as part of ECM’s 50th Anniversary, and more. She is a pianist in International Contemporary Ensemble, Wadada Leo Smith’s Kikuyu Ensemble and a member of the six-piano ensemble Grand Band. Dohi is co-founder of the BLUEPRINTS Piano Series and festival In Visible Roads in collaboration with Metropolis Ensemble, and co-founder of the flute and piano duo RighteousGIRLS. As a composer, she has participated in the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at Mass MoCA and the Atlantic Center for the Arts with composer Judd Greenstein. She has been commissioned by Metropolis Ensemble, Switch~ Ensemble, Grand Band, and the independent entertainment company A24 for the Song Reader box set project for the film Everything Everywhere All at Once. She is a recipient of New Music USA’s 2022 Creator Development Grant and the 2023 Figure 8 and Forgotten Futures Artist Residency Programs.
Timo Vollbrecht is a “luminously fine” saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, celebrated for his “velvety tone and sinuous phrasing” (All About Jazz). Rooted in jazz, his music blends improvisation with elements of minimalism, electro-acoustic sound worlds, post-rock, new music, and instrumental songwriting. Originally from Germany, he studied at the Berlin Jazz Institute before a Fulbright grant brought him to New York in 2010, marking the start of his ongoing tenure in the US. After completing his Ph.D. at NYU in 2020 with a dissertation on seminal ECM Records producer Manfred Eicher, Dr. Vollbrecht became the Director of Jazz Studies at Brown University, where he leads the Brown Jazz Band. With his band Fly Magic, he has toured over 30 countries, and he has released an extensive catalog of albums. They feature his unique compositional approach – “a bold tightrope walk between the chamber-like elegance of small-group jazz and the kinetic breadth of larger ensemble dynamics” (UK Vibe). He collaborates closely with vocalist Theo Bleckmann in the Tether Trio and has worked with Ben Monder, Ralph Alessi, Kinan Azmeh, Ulysses Owens Jr., Miho Hazama, and Grammy-Award winning producer William Brittelle. Vollbrecht performs on world stages such as the Cairo Jazz Festival, Panama Jazz Festival, Perth Jazz Festival, Winter Jazz Fest, the Bimhuis in Amsterdam, BMC Budapest, and Porgy and Bess in Vienna. “Known for his relentless creativity and boundary-defying artistry, saxophonist Timo Vollbrecht has built a reputation as a true phenomenon in the jazz world” (Occhi Magazine).
William Brittelle (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based GRAMMY-winning producer, GRAMMY-nominated composer and a creator of hyper-text and multimedia. An avid collaborator, Brittelle has worked with a number of artists across multiple disciplines, including Roomful of Teeth, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Bryce Dessner (The National), Son Lux, Oneohtrix Point Never, A Far Cry, Lower Dens, Duran Duran, and more. His most recent full-length LP entitled Spiritual America featuring Wye Oak, the Metropolis Ensemble, and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, was released by Nonesuch/New Amsterdam in 2019. Brittelle’s work has been presented at venues across the world, including the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall in Los Angeles, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, BAM and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Kennedy Center, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Da Camera in Houston, Seattle’s Town Hall, the Kahserne in Switzerland, the Freemantle Arts Center in Perth, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Increasingly active as a producer, upcoming and recent projects include albums with Ted Hearne/The Crossing/Bakudi Scream, Alex Temple/Julia Holter/Spektral Quartet, Metropolis Ensemble/Wye Oak, Jodie Landau, the string ensemble Owls, Aditya Prakash, Molly Joyce, Kaoru Watanabe and Erika Dohi. Roomful of Teeth’s 2023 album Rough Magic garnered Brittelle a GRAMMY award as producer (BEST SMALL ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE) and a nomination as composer (BEST CONTEMPORARY CLASSICAL COMPOSITION).
Along with composers Judd Greenstein and Sarah Kirkland Snider, Brittelle is the co-founder and co-artistic director of New Amsterdam Records, a GRAMMY-winning non-profit pro-artist record label and artist service organization with a catalog of over 120 releases. He also serves as house producer for Figureight Recordings, a renowned Brooklyn-based studio owned and founded by Shahzad Ismaily. Brittelle has been the recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, American Music Center, American Composers Forum, the Jerome Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NYSCA, and ASCAP. He formerly served on the faculty of The New School in New York City, developing and teaching courses in Genre-fluid Music and the Ethos of Punk, and has guest lectured at Juilliard, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Duke University, Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin, University of Maryland, Oberlin, USC, and the Cork Academy of Music. Brittelle has been in artistic residence with the Brown Arts Institute since 2022 as part of the Prizma Arts and Reserch Residency, teaching courses and working with students and faculty to develop the world of Eternal September.