Endlings, Yarn/Wire

Program Notes

Endlings (Raven Chacon, John Dieterich, and Yarn/Wire)
False Division (2025)

While we have collaborated with other musicians and artists in the past (see our work with Marshall Trammell, Jason Doell, and Vancouver New Music), this collaboration with Yarn/Wire marks our first foray into translating our mysterious impenetrable recorded language into a live performance vehicle that can accommodate the contributions of other musicians. Formed in 2010, Endlings’ work has evolved through the embrace of anti-permanence, anti-authorship, anti-logic, and anti-technique, finding the hidden chaos-magic when simple materials performed by real people are stressed beyond their breaking points. This is improvisation as liberation but also as process—a window into the unknown which is always open to evaluation, re-evaluation, and re-calibration. This collaboration with Yarn/Wire is a long time coming and we’re grateful for their willingness to explore these areas with us.