Inner Limits, Yvette Janine Jackson – “Tower Thoughts” Carillon New Music Festival

Описание: Inner Limits (2024)
Yvette Janine Jackson (b. 1973)
World premiere
Rowan Shih, carillon

Inner Limits is a meditation on the internal and external forces that shape our individual and collective identities. We are called together for reflection and led to examine the intersecting boundaries — personal, existential, psychological, and moral — that guide us as we navigate our lives and outward expression in the public gaze.

—Yvette Janine Jackson

Inner Limits was commissioned for this festival by Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. This is its world premiere performance.

The Tower Thoughts Carillon New Music Festival presented 44 pieces from the 21st century, including 6 new commissions by Rockefeller Chapel and 11 world premieres in total. Three guest artists from around the world, together with University of Chicago carillonists, performed five concerts over the course of a weekend, May 9-11, 2025. Additionally, the tower was given a voice, the live voice of a human, broadcast out the bell chambers via four large speakers. With this voice, between every piece, the tower shared a snippet of its life, a glimpse of what it’s seen, heard, felt, and thought about since 1928, a brief, fleeting tower thought. This festival, devised by Alex Johnson, the 7th University Carillonist of the University of Chicago, is the second Carillon New Music Festival in Chicago History. The first was Ripple Effects, produced in 2018, devised by Joey Brink, the 6th University Carillonist.

Recording by C W Media.