The Innocents

"The Innocents" three-day residency schedule

Read the full story on the residency here.

Tuesday, 2/14

Saxophone Masterclass featuring Dr. Jan Baker, professor at Georgia State University and co-director of Atlanta-based contemporary music ensemble Bent Frequency

5pm - 6:30pm, Edge Hall, HHSOM

Wednesday, 2/15

Percussion Masterclass featuring guest artists Professor Allen Otte, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, and Dr. John Lane, Sam Houston State University (TX)

9am - 10:30am

Percussion Suite, 1st floor HHSOM

ICE Conversation

12pm - 12:45pm 

Lamar Dodd Building Room S160

Join us for this conversation featuring Atlanta-based contemporary chamber ensemble Bent Frequency and guest artists Professor Allen Otte and Dr. John Lane as they discuss the collaborative and cross-disciplinary aspects of their performance project The Innocents, inspired by the photo exhibit of The Innocence Project by photographer Taryn Simon, which examines the issue of wrongful conviction in the American penal system. Simon traveled across the US photographing and interviewing individuals who had been wrongly convicted and served time for crimes they did not commit. The individuals photographed were exonerated through DNA evidence.  Their performance of The Innocents takes place in the Dodd Atrium (first floor of Lamar Dodd Building) the following evening, 2/16, at 6pm.  Sponsored by a Willson Center Public Impact Grant. 

Eurythmics Class with Wind Symphony featuring guest artist Professor Allen Otte

2:30pm - 4:25pm, Orchestra Rehearsal Room 

**This class is not open to the public or other HHSOM students as there is no room for more participants.  

Presentation: "Collaboration and Community: Cultivating a Performative Voice”

7:00pm - 8:30pm, Dancz Center, HHSOM

Join us for this conversation featuring Atlanta-based contemporary chamber ensemble Bent Frequency and guest artists Professor Allen Otte and Dr. John Lane as they discuss how their work as contemporary musicians has broadened into culturally and socially relevant interdisciplinary performance projects that inspire artistic development and purpose beyond the playing of their instruments. 

Thursday, 2/16

School of Law Panel Discussion: Social Justice and Music: The Innocence.

Join us for this distinguished panel discussion, moderated by law professor Russell Gabriel, that features Interim Director of the Georgia Innocence Project, Clare Gilbert, Georgia Innocence Project’s first exoneree, Clarence Harrison, Northeast Georgia Regional Capital Defender Ryan Swingle and guest artists Professor Allen Otte and Dr. John Lane. This panel will discuss aspects of the death penalty, the process of exoneration and how social justice can inspire art and music.

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Hatton Lovejoy Courtroom, third floor

University of Georgia School of Law

225 Herty Dr

Culminating Performance: The Innocents featuring Atlanta-based contemporary chamber ensemble Bent Frequency and guest artists Professor Allen Otte and Dr. John Lane

6pm: Dodd Atrium (located on first floor), Lamar Dodd Building

The first half of the concert features "The Innocents" work. Through the use of non-traditional instruments, such as found or street percussion (rocks, pots, pans, trash cans, etc...), and the use of electronics, the music and text illustrate some of the strong and complex emotions brought about by Simon's original exhibit.  The second half features Bent Frequency performing "Coming Together" (1971) and "Attica (1972), by the American composer Frederic Rzewski. The text is taken from letters written by Samuel Melville, an activist and inmate killed in the prison riot at Attica State Prison in 1971. Melville’s words outline the inhumane living conditions at Attica, which lead directly to the 4-day riot that left 39 people dead.

For more details on the residency, email Connie Frigo at cfrigo@uga.edu.