WOODEN CATHEDRAL
Wooden Cathedral, written by Matt Sargent, is a concert for solo bass, immersive recorded bass environment, and real-time electronics. It draws its material from Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame along with dimensions of the Notre Dame Cathedral, to create canons and polyphony turning the bass into its own acoustic cathedral.
Emmett Jackson is a Chicago-based double bassist specializing in contemporary music. He has performed with renowned ensembles such as Ensemble Modern, the Grossman Ensemble, Ensemble dal Niente, and the Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra. Emmett holds a Bachelor’s from Lawrence University, a Master’s from Northwestern University, and a Master’s in Contemporary Music from the International Ensemble Modern Academy in Frankfurt. His teachers include Mark Urness, Andrew Raciti, and Paul Cannon.
Matt Sargent is a composer, guitarist, and recording engineer based in New York, where he is an assistant professor of music at Bard College. A versatile artist with an international reputation for his prolific musical life on the concert stage and in the recording studio, Sargent’s music has been described as “remarkable from all angles.” (Colin Clarke, Fanfare Magazine)
