BHED Recital: Slumber party at the hub
It’s past your BHED time! Fear not, vocalist/electronic sound artist Britt Hewitt and flutist/ performance artist Emily Duncan will tell you stories. BHED creates, commissions, and performs genre-defying music that merges contemporary music, theater, technology, and participatory ritual. BHED launched in 2025 through a collaboration with composer Randall Woolf, premiering three reimagined semi-staged works for voice, flute, and electronics at The Cell in New York City. Their projects prioritize experimentation, play, and imaginative frameworks. PULL, a cycle of miniature pieces written for each of the 78 cards in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, was designed for audiences of one, resulting in an original piece of music designed individually for each tarot querents. PULL premiered at Target Margin Theater in 2025 as part of the Degenerate Labs. The duo also performed Kate Soper’s “Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say” at The Blanc’s Pulsing Sound Series. BHED is currently developing an evening-length staged work based on the 1922 manual Etiquette by Emily Post. The piece interrogates the daily mundane theatrics of manners and ritual by recontextualizing them through a surreal performance lens. Hewitt and Duncan cultivate a virtuosic, playful, and unpredictable aesthetic infused with humor, experimental sound, and a dreamscape/slumber party motif.
Program to include:
Works by Daniel Felsenfeld, Lisa Bielawa, Kate (Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say), Randall Woolf/Britt Hewitt, and original works.
PARKING & ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION
Parking: All parking is FREE on nights and weekends in City of Troy.
FREE parking is also available at the State Street Parking Garage located at the corner of State Street and River Street, a short 4-minute walk from the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.
GPS Address: 189 River St, Troy, NY 12180
Accessibility: Large-print programs and assistive listening devices available upon request, find an usher or staff member for more information.