Blind Glass explores an eclectic musical landscape, combining spoken word, improvisation and performance art within a multi-dimensional aesthetic world. Our goal is to re-imagine traditional performance in the following ways:

*Improvisation – As improvisation begins in the language with which one is most familiar, we seek to explore the improvisational elements within the musical languages of our ensemble musicians.

*Sensations – According to Kandinsky, “music is the ultimate teacher;” we seek to produce performances that evoke both visual and theatrical elements. We are fascinated by how sound activates and interacts with the visual world.

*Poetry – We aim to explore how language and its natural rhythms influence musical sound. We are inspired by the poetic forms that come out of the Dadaist movement, and seek to move past the constraints of linguistic syntax.

*Storytelling – Storytelling is the center of our vision–both from a musical and from an aesthetic standpoint. Our repertoire captures and intertwines a wide array of themes, such as the awe of the natural world and the whimsy of childhood. We vacillate between spoken word, sung text, wordless melodies, and traditional instrumental forms – juxtaposing order and chaos. We hope our audiences will come away from our performances reconsidering what music, language, and art can mean.

The name “Blind Glass” comes from the book Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein.