Wild Forms of Hush
Performing on an unusual combination of instruments (tar, viola d'amore, no-input mixer, serge modular synthesizer), four musicians declare themselves ungovernable and endeavor to forget the safe currents mapped by language and symbol. They invite you into a strange vessel -- at once futuristic and archaic -- to find out whether there are great tranquil eyes in the middle of nameless storms. // Vier muzikanten, die een ongebruikelijke combinatie van instrumenten bespelen (tar, viola d'amore, no-input mixer, serge modulaire synthesizer), verklaren zich oncontroleerbaar en proberen de veilige stromen van taal en symbolen te vergeten. Ze nodigen je uit aan boord van een vreemd schip – tegelijk futuristisch en archaïsch – om te ontdekken of er grote, kalme ogen schuilgaan te midden van naamloze stormen.
Gaudeamus Festival: Moving Furniture Album releases
Featuring Tunsā II by Sina M Fard and Conor Abbott Brown, which was written collaboratively using the Voltage Control modular synthesizer at the Institute of Sonology in response to compositions by Luctor Ponse.
Hereditary: Screening + Live Score
Hereditary: Screening + Live Score (World Premiere)
(2018, d. Ari Aster, c. Colin Stetson)
Wordless Music Orchestra
Robert Ames, conductor
Colin Stetson, saxophones
October 23, 2026
Live orchestrations of the film score by Conor Abbott Brown in collaboration with Colin Stetson.
Klyl Shifroni: new bass clarinet work
Conor is performing a new work written by Klyl Shifroni for bass clarinet and 8-channel fixed media.
Winston-Salem Symphony: How to Relax with Origami
Michelle Merrill Conductor
“Conor Abbott Brown’s quirky How to Relax with Origami folds numerous, varied miniatures into a brief opening work. Winston-Salem composer Dan Locklair pairs poetry by Maya Angelou—narrated here by NC poet laureate Jaki Shelton Green— with a large orchestra and chorus. Copland’s enormous Symphony No. 3 celebrates the contributions of everyday, hard-working people and its familiar melody (“Fanfare for the Common Man”) makes for a stunning conclusion to the season.”
https://www.wssymphony.org/event/coplands-fanfare/2026-05-30/
Winston-Salem Symphony: How to Relax with Origami
Michelle Merrill Conductor
“Conor Abbott Brown’s quirky How to Relax with Origami folds numerous, varied miniatures into a brief opening work. Winston-Salem composer Dan Locklair pairs poetry by Maya Angelou—narrated here by NC poet laureate Jaki Shelton Green— with a large orchestra and chorus. Copland’s enormous Symphony No. 3 celebrates the contributions of everyday, hard-working people and its familiar melody (“Fanfare for the Common Man”) makes for a stunning conclusion to the season.”
https://www.wssymphony.org/event/coplands-fanfare/2026-05-30/
Wave Field Synthesis Festival
Premiere of composition for wave field synthesis system Game of Life.
(Specific concert placement within the two-day festival to be announced.)
Sonology Discussion Concert
Tunsā I | fixed media
(2026) – 10’
Sina M Fard and Conor Abbott Brown
We developed Tunsā I collaboratively in the Sonology Voltage Control Studio by dwelling with, responding to, and then splintering our responses to a recording of Mahmoud Darwish reading his poem "تُنْسى، كأنك لم تكن" (“You’ll Be Forgotten, As If You Never Were”). Our process was informed by the following passage from the poem:
فالمفرداتُ
تسُوسُني وأسُوسُها. أنا شكلها
وهي التجلِّي الحُرُّ.
Vocabulary
governs me and I govern it. I am its shape
and it is the free transfiguration.
Translation by Fady Joudah
We counter-transfigured the crystalline contour of the poem's vocabulary into unpronounceable, primordial shapes. The piece teeters: in one direction, a sinking fear of having arrived too late into a tragic narrative to change it, and in the other, a hope that future generations will be privileged to forget the vocabularies of exile and dehumanization.
Boulder Symphony - selections from Hereditary
Selections of Conor Abbott Brown’s orchestration of the Hereditary film score for live orchestra will be performed.
Sigur Rós with Wordless Music Orchestra
Conor Abbott Brown contracted the all-star cast of musicians who will make up the Wordless Music Orchestra for this concert.
21st Century Consort - Above and Beyond
Washington D.C., USA
Including Conor Abbott Brown’s Constellation for solo flute and delay pedal.
