Composer Peter Ablinger and Chicago-based new music group Fonema Consort will delve together into an array of meanings of the human voice that preoccupy both parties – a clash of artistic worlds having in common the challenge of performative and perceptual notions in music. The sexagenarian composer – one whose creative output intersects the modernist and conceptual, performative and technological – will create a new piece for the ensemble, drawing from previous reflections on the meaning of song.