That hobby is now her career: she is signed to a major label and won the BRIT Rising Star Award in 2022. But her songs could still credibly be called bedroom pop, in the sense that they’re often set within that room. Four years ago, the New York Philharmonic announced Project 19, “the aim of which was to commission 19 new works by women composers.” This Friday… it will come closer to that goal with the debut of Mary Kouyoumdjian’s “ANDOUNI (Homeless).” Peter Eotvos’s “Ligetidyll” will open the program, followed by Michel van der Aa’s “Mask ” and Hannah Kendall’s “shouting forever into the receiver,” which considers the reverberations of enslavement and the plantation economy still felt today in the African diaspora.
With Kendall’s inventive approach to orchestration… expect walkie-talkies and windup music boxes. The evening will conclude with “ANDOUNI,” which Kouyoumdjian worked on with the photojournalist Scout Tufankjian. They have created a music documentary that looks at the plight and resilience of the ethnic Armenians who were forcibly removed from a region of Azerbaijan in September.
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Looking for something to do in New York? Hear Laura Benanti’s funny stories and show tunes, see the Japanese director Hiroshi Shimizu’s films or take in photos of ethnic Armenians in Azerbaijan set to music.
Holly Humberstone, a young British singer whose songs marry the stickiness of pop with the bracing, chatty intimacy of voice notes passed between friends, made her earliest music in GarageBand on her home computer. That hobby is now her career: She is signed to a major label and won the BRIT Rising Star Award in 2022. But her songs could still credibly be called bedroom pop, in the sense that they’re often set within that room. “The Walls Are Way Too Thin,” from 2021, captures the agony of nursing feelings for a roommate. On “Cocoon,” from last year, Humberstone’s narrator is cloistered at home during a depressive episode, while on “Paint My Bedroom Black,” a fresh coat of paint becomes a metaphor for personal liberation.
“Paint My Bedroom Black” is also the title of Humberstone’s debut album, which was released in October. This weekend, the singer’s tour supporting the record — her first outing as a headliner in the United States — will come to Brooklyn Steel.
Four years ago, the NewYork Philharmonic announced Project 19, the aim of which was to commission 19 new works by women composers. This Friday, it will come closer to that goal with the debut of Mary Kouyoumdjian’s “ANDOUNI (Homeless).”
Peter Eotvos’s “Ligetidyll” will open the program, followed by Michel van der Aa’s “Mask ” and Hannah Kendall’s “shouting forever into the receiver,” which considers the reverberations of enslavement and the plantation economy still felt today in the African diaspora. With Kendall’s inventive approach to orchestration, expect walkie-talkies and windup music boxes.
The evening will conclude with “ANDOUNI,” which Kouyoumdjian worked on with the photojournalist Scout Tufankjian. They have created a music documentary that looks at the plight and resilience of the ethnic Armenians who were forcibly removed from a region of Azerbaijan in September. Kouyoumdjian and Tufankjian traveled there to record the sights and sounds and ensure that the people’s history is not erased.
