This event is FREE!

FiveOne Experimental Orchestra is a Cleveland-based music collective of nine composers and performers with a ‘no-boundaries’ approach to music. Our vision is to create a diverse stream of fresh, new-perspective musical works and to bring an intriguing meld of genres, styles, and artistic disciplines to usual and unusual spaces. Toward that end, we often position players around or within the audience, blend art music with rock, digital sounds or world music, and collaborate with other artists to produce innovative multimedia performances.

We differentiate our orchestra from other new music ensembles by abandoning an academic setting in favor of unusual, artful locations that may be more freely viewed and appreciated by the community. We offer early-career professional musicians the opportunity to play challenging, new pieces that directly involve them in the creative process, resulting in an integrated musical landscape more in-step with the energy of modern live music performers.

The world of pop music is an ever-growing one, now so large, imaginative, and sophisticated that it shares many things in common with the finely crafted art music long relegated to academia. We believe there is a large market of young, free thinking individuals who could find a great bond with the intricacies and abstraction of recent classical music if properly exposed on their terms, in their venues.

As an orchestra, we performed out first concert in May of 2008. The following year, we formed a 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. Since that time, FiveOne has continued to expand, holding more concerts each year and fostering a larger group of musicians. The Experimental Orchestra has reached out to many other artistic disciplines through a variety of collaborations, including sculptors, filmmakers, dancers, and visual artists.

The heart of FiveOne’s mission is to challenge both traditional and non-traditional concert-goers to participate with open mind, eyes, ears, and hearts in a truly unique musical experience. We compose with both power chords and counterpoint. Our violins sing like Paganini’s, yet sometimes they create electric guitar sounds. Our audiences are as diverse as our music, yet our music speaks to each listener on a personal level. FiveOne is about using the arts to communicate, to foster community, and create cosmos in a world of chaos.

Set List for BOP STOP:
Michael Bratt - Atari Punk (World Premiere)
Jeremy Allen - NO SIGNAL (World Premiere)
John HC Thompson - The Boll Weevil Band
David Crowell - Like a Machine (commissioned by 51XO)
Michael Laurello - Tell hope everything you hear
Ted Hearne - Furtive Movements

http://www.fiveonemusic.org/