A sweeping assemblage of video designed by Peter Nigrini, choreography by Karole Armitage, environments designed by Riccardo Hernandez, and amplified, distorted and acoustic cello in tandem with spoken and sung texts by Erin Cressida Wilson and Henri Michaux. ELSEWHERE is an urgent dialogue between two female heroines communicating from opposite poles in time, ancient and modern, catastrophic and calm, both at the brink of apocalypse and nonexistence.


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The term ‘Canyengue,’ pronounced “Can-jen-geh,” refers to the early style of tango – raw, provocative, sensual – that developed on the streets of the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the 20s and 30s. Says Beiser, “Much like Swing in American music, Tango has evolved from a simple form of dance into a sophisticated and complex genre of music.” That tranformation is exemplified in this program, which centers on the work of Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionized the genre with his brilliant, classically-inspired compositions.

Ziegler was a member of Piazzolla’s New Tango Quintet for ten years, and instrumental in refining the sound that elevated tango music from dance clubs to the concert hall. Ziegler carries that legacy forward in his own compelling music, which has propelled him to international prominence. Beiser, born in Israel to an Argentinian father and a French mother, grew up listening to tango; in 1999 she payed tribute to Piazzolla with her acclaimed recording Oblivión, with pianist Anthony de Mare.

“I grew up in an Argentinean Kibbutz in Israel,” says Beiser. “My father, a music lover and avid record collector, had a vast library of tango music, from street tangos to the more sophisticated Nuevo Tangos of Carlos Gardel and Astor Piazzolla. This music was my connection to my father’s family and history in Argentina. Though we were in Israel, we would spend long weekends drinking Maté, grilling Asado [Argentinian barbecue], listening to Tango, and listening to my father’s stories about Gauchos and riding horses in the Pampas. I love the immediacy, rawness, and earthiness of this music as well as its sensuality and melancholy.”Along with Piazzolla classics like Libertango and Adíos Nonino, Beiser and Ziegler perform some lesser-known works, including the propulsive and virtuosic Escualo, the stately Milonga Sin Palabras, and the Bach-inspired Fuga y Mysterio, all newly arranged by Ziegler for cello and piano. They also play a selection of Ziegler’s compositions, including his evocative Milonga del Adios and his jazz-infused Places. In addition, Beiser takes the solo spotlight with a signature piece, Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel.

ABOUT PABLO ZIEGLER

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Latin GRAMMY winning pianist Pablo Ziegler artfully blends classic tango rhythms with jazz improvisations, adding a new voice to the tango lexicon. Howard Reich of The Chicago Tribune writes, “There’s no question that Ziegler takes the tango to levels of sophistication and refinement probably undreamed of by Piazzolla”, and Eric Salzman of Stereo Review, writing of Ziegler’s CD, Tango Romance, affirmed that the CD “solidifies his (Ziegler’s) claim to be the outstanding representative of the nuevo tango in his generation.” In addition to this critical acclaim, Ziegler’s 2005 release Bajo Cero won the 2005 Latin Grammy Award for Best Tango album of the year and in 2008, his album Buenos Aires Report made the final list of nominees for the same honor.

In 1978, Mr. Ziegler was invited to join Astor Piazzolla’s New Tango Quintet, and for over the next ten years, he performed with this group throughout Europe, Japan and North America, at the Montreal Jazz Festival, Nice Jazz Festival, Sapporo Jazz Festival, Central Park SummerStage, and the Istanbul Festival, among many others.

Pablo Ziegler formed his own Quartet for New Tango in 1990 and has been touring extensively throughout the world with his trio, quartet and quintet. Performances in recent seasons have included Carnegie Hall (as part of the JVC Jazz Festival with guest artists Paquito D’Rivera, Joe Lovano and Gary Burton), the Savannah Music Festival, Blue Note, UCLA, the University of Texas-Austin, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in Maryland, the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, the Ravinia Festival, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas with pianist Christopher O’Riley in the duo Los Tangueros, the New World Symphony in Miami, New York’s Knitting Factory with Emanuel Ax, the Cape May Music Festival in New Jersey, and the San Francisco Jazz Festival among many others.

Ziegler’s quintet has also been performing annually at the Jazz Standard in NYC since 2002 in the Tango Meets Jazz series produced by Pat Philips, with guest artists including Paquito D’Rivera, Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Randy Brecker, and Kenny Garrett. Important international engagements have included the Umbria Jazz Festival, The Lapataia Jazz Festival in Punta del Este (Uruguay), and the Verbier Festival (Switzerland), as well as performances throughout Europe. He has done 16 European tours to date.

A new program, Beyond Tango, was created by Pablo Ziegler for the Miami International Piano Festival in 2009. The evening includes works for two pianos progressing up to a large chamber ensemble playing compositions of Pablo Ziegler with some of his own arrangements of the Piazzolla 2-piano pieces which he had recorded with Emanuel Ax for Sony Classical, produced by Ettore Stratta. This program was performed at the Mondavi Center in April 2011.
His trio continues to tour extensively throughout the US and abroad including reent performances at the Lied Center in Nebraska, Arts! San Antonio, the Belleayre Music Festival in upstate New York, and Icicle Creek in Washington state. His Quintet also performed recently at the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston, TX with special guest, Claudia Acuña.

ABOUT ASTOR PIAZZOLLA

The year 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of Astor Piazzolla’s passing. In many ways, he is a forerunner to the current generation of composers who are working to fuse popular and classical styles and techniques. Born in 1921 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, he grew up in New York City. He started lessons on the bandoneon (Argentinian accordion) at the age of eight; a few years later, he began piano studies with Bela Wilda, a protégé of Rachmaninoff, who introduced him to Bach’s music. He returned to his native country in 1936, and at seventeen, launched his professional career by playing in tango orchestras. Three years later, he began composition lessons with Alberto Ginastera. His efforts to introduce the harmonic complexities of classical music into the tango were met with some hostility, as were concert works incorporating the bandoneon, then considered a street instrument.

In the early 1950s, he set aside the tango to compose concert works, going to Paris in 1954 to study with Nadia Boulanger. With her encouragement, he returned to the tango, and upon his return to Argentina, expanded the genre in ever-more creative and adventurous directions, experimenting with harmony, form, and instrumentation. By the time he passed in 1992, he had composed film soundtracks, chamber and orchestral scores, and popular hits. His collaborations included projects with Gary Burton, Kronos Quartet, Gerry Mulligan, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Lalo Schifrin.

FEBRUARY 1 AT LE POISSON ROUGE

Arrangements and originals by Ziegler, a 10-year veteran of Piazzolla’s band

On Wednesday, February 1 at Le Poisson Rouge, I’ll be performing with Latin Grammy-winning pianist/composer Pablo Ziegler in Canyengue, the Soul of Tango, a program of rare and well-known compositions by Astor Piazzolla and original works by Ziegler.

The show begins at 7:30 pm, with doors at 6:30; tickets are available through Le Poisson Rouge.

The term ‘Canyengue,’ pronounced “Can-jen-geh,” refers to the early style of tango – raw, provocative, sensual – that developed on the streets of the poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the 20s and 30s. Much like Swing in American music, Tango has evolved from a simple form of dance into a sophisticated and complex genre of music. That tranformation is exemplified in this program, which centers on the work of Astor Piazzolla, who revolutionized the genre with his brilliant, classically-inspired compositions.

Along with Piazzolla classics like Libertango and Adíos Nonino, we will perform some lesser-known works, including the propulsive and virtuosic Escualo, the stately Milonga Sin Palabras, and the Bach-inspired Fuga y Mysterio, all newly arranged by Ziegler for our duo. We will also play a selection of Ziegler’s compositions, including his evocative Milonga del Adios and his jazz-infused Places. In addition, I will take the solo spotlight with a signature piece, Osvaldo Golijov’s Mariel.

Hope to see you there!!

Love,
Maya

For ‘Provenance,’ I commissioned works by composers from Armenia, Kurdish Iran, Israel, and the US. The title means ‘origins,’ referring to both my personal history and the intertwining cultural traditions that course through these pieces. On some pieces, my cello is heard on its own or with live electronic sound; on others, I am accompanied by Lebanese-American master oud player Bassam Saba, as well as American percussionists Matt Kilmer and Shane Shanahan.

‘Provenance’ is inspired by the Golden Age of Medieval Spain, when Muslims, Christians and Jews thrived together, giving rise to a centuries-long flowering of commerce, culture, art and architecture. Likewise, I grew up in an Israeli kibbutz at the foothills of the Galilee Mountains, co-existing in harmony with neighboring Muslim and Christian Arab villages.

‘Provenance’ draws from that experience, celebrating the glory of a multi-religious, multicultural civilization and the hope of lasting peace. It includes music by Kayhan Kalhor, Djivan Gasparian, Tamar Muskal, and Douglas J Cuomo, culminating in a multi-cello version of Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir.

Tickets are available to the general public starting at $20 via www.uclalive.org, Ticketmaster or the UCLA Central Ticket office at 310-821-2101.

I hope to see you there!

love, maya

P.S. Here is a feature hot from the press of the Huffington Post…

Maya Beiser, cello
Michael Harrison, piano

Just Ancient Loops brings together virtuoso cellist Maya Beiser and the extraordinary composer and pianist Michael Harrison.  Harrison’s music is perfect for our times: it’s architectural and precise, yet exhilarating and beautiful. It draws on music from ancient Greece and the Renaissance, Indian ragas and minimalism.  Complementing Harrison’s compositions is music by two composers he reveres: Arvo Part and J.S. Bach.

The program takes its name from the center piece of this concert: Just Ancient Loops, a 25 minute musical odyssey that unveils every aspect of the cello – from its most glorious and mysterious harmonics to the earthy rhythmic pizzicatos. The cello becomes an “Uber instrument” – laying down the drones, building rhythmical grooves on top of each other, singing melismatic melodies, and reaching up to the stratosphere as the music evolves and builds into a massive, exhilarating climax.

Juxtaposed with Just Ancient loops is the Suite for Solo Cello in G Major by J.S. Bach. The cello is tuned in “just Intonation,” which requires some adjustments to the original Bach score. The result is a unique and fresh approach to the interpretation of this well-known masterpiece.

Bach/Gounod’s famed Ave Maria, receives its own surprising interpretation as Harrison accompanies Maya’s cello on a specially tuned piano, along with two Raga-preludes inspired by Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. The inclusion of Arvo Part’s Fratres and Spiegel Im Spiegel in the program, exemplify Part’s own exploration of timbre and reverberation and the intrinsic spirituality of his music.

When possible, the concert closes with the breathtaking Hijaz, a piece commissioned by 2011 MacArthur “Genius Grant” recipient, conductor Francisco Nunez for female or professional children’s choir, solo cello, piano and tabla, which Harrison composed for Maya and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City.

You can read more about composer Michael Harrison on his website.

Notes on Just Ancient Loops by Maya

There are those rare moments in an artist’s life when you realize that you are part of something that is greater than yourself, your collaborators, your listeners – when everything falls into place and music just lives and breathes on its own: raw, naked, real. It takes over. It becomes a force of nature. Such was the moment when I listened to the first mix of “Just Ancient Loops” – a 25 minute musical odyssey that unveils every aspect of the cello – from its most glorious and mysterious harmonics to the earthy rhythmic pizzicatos. The “just intonation” tuning used in the work reveals how music exists in nature. In the process of working on this project I read several books diving into its harmonic principles. For me however, it was a simple revelation: I have always heard music in just intonation. The sound of the cello shimmers and bounces through space when it’s tuned correctly. You start hearing all the nuances, the shades of light that the natural harmonics create. It’s as if you are turning all the artificial lights off and just letting the rays of sunlight into your space.

In “Just Ancient Loops” the cello becomes this “Uber instrument” laying down the drones, building rhythmical grooves on top of each other, singing melismatic melodies, and reaching up to the stratosphere as the music evolves and builds into a massive, exhilarating climax.

Program Notes:

Concert program notes
Just Ancient Loops notes by Maya Beiser
Just Ancient Loops notes by Michael Harrison
Hijaz notes by Michael Harrison
*Downloads courtesy of Serious Music Media
 
 
 
 

A few weeks ago I sat down for an interview with Peter Cummings at the Sirius XM studios here in New York. Peter hosts an interview series called Linked on the Sirius Classical Pops station (XM 75 & Sirius 75). We spoke about the inspiration for my latest album Provenance and the creative process behind my next big projects. Tune in this weekend to hear the interview and music from my recent albums as well as music that inspires me (Bach, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Piazzolla…). Tune in to Sirius XM so you don’t miss it!

Air Times on channel 75:

Saturday, October 22nd at 9AM

Sunday, October 23rd at 8PM

Monday, October 24th at 11PM

In other exciting news…

For those of you on the West Coast- my next performance is at Royce Hall at UCLA Live November 11, 2011! I will perform a double bill with percussionist extraordinaire Evelyn Glennie. Together we will also premier an untitled piece by award-winning New York composer David Lang.  Get tickets here and read the press release here!

In September I traveled to Stavanger, Norway to perform with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Steven Sloan. I had a great time performing Tan Dun’s Crouching Tiger Concerto with Steven and the orchestra. Here is an excerpt from the review of our performance.

“[...]music critics have called her a ‘cello goddess’, and it is clear that she has what it takes in terms of technique, musicality, and stage presence to awaken an audience’s enthusiasm. [Maya Beiser] received a standing ovation for her performance [of Tan Dun's 'Crouching Tiger Conerto'], which she respnded to with a beautiful Armenian melody, her lower strings becoming out-stretched drones.”

-Stavanger Aftenblad, September 10, 2011

I am looking forward to more projects with this fantastic orchestra!

Love,

maya

Click here to view the video on YouTube.

At the beginning of March I had the privilege of appearing at the prestigious TED conference in Long Beach, California, which brings leading artists and thinkers together to exchange “ideas worth spreading.” Other presenters included Bill Gates, Bobby McFerrin, Julie Taymor, Morgan Spurlock, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, and Roger Ebert. It was a remarkable experience in every respect, truly energizing.

My presentation consisted of two pieces for multi-tracked cello and video: Steve Reich’s Cello Counterpoint with video by Bill Morrison and David Lang’s World to Come with video by Irit Batsry. While the performance was streamed live to TED attendees around the world, it is now available online and you can view it above or at the TED website here. I hope you’ll take a few moments to watch.

Of course, video is great, but live performance is even better. If you’re in New York this weekend, come down to the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan for the mighty Bang on a Can Marathon. It goes on Sunday, June 19, from 11 in the morning to 11 at night, featuring dozens of outstanding performers and ensembles in the newest music. I’m scheduled to perform at 4 pm with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City, playing Michael Harrison’s Hijaz for youth chorus with just-intonation piano, cello, and percussion. I just recorded Hijaz for a disc devoted to Michael’s lush and captivating music, due early next year on Cantaloupe Records. In the meantime, see you on the 19th!

Seems that  the New York Times music critic, Alan Kozinn had a good time as well

Here is a quote from his review of the concert:

“Given the program’s conceptual breadth — it was something like Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, condensed to just under two hours — you could almost have missed the sheer virtuosity of Ms. Beiser’s focused, richly nuanced playing. In her case, that involves more than finger power and interpretive suppleness. Except for two pieces (“Kol Nidre” and Ms. Gubaidulina’s involved, harmonically dense “In Croce”), for which she was joined by the deft new-music accordionist Guy Klucevsek, Ms. Beiser’s accompanist was an interactive program on her laptop, which included recorded cello and vocal tracks.

In Mr. Tavener’s “Lament to Phaedra,” the program allowed her to control the entrances of backing drones, giving her greater rhythmic freedom than if she were merely playing to a recording. Elsewhere — in Mr. Talbot’s “Motion Detector,” for example — she seemed to be creating the backdrop live, using a pedal to record and play loops of cello figuration, and building them into a dense texture. Strangely — or perhaps not — there was no sense of incongruity between Ms. Beiser’s high-tech performance and the evocations of antiquity in the music and iconography.”

Read the whole review here:

“East Meets Farther East When the Aural Mirrors the Visual”

Yana Paskova for The New York Times

I am dedicating the next month to two exciting new recording projects. Stay tuned for more details in the coming days!

Yours Truly,

Maya

December 4, 2006
BY HEDY WEISS Theater Critic

For a long time, what sprang to mind when you conjured the notion of classical music fused with multimedia spectacle was the 1942 Disney film, “Fantasia.” But thanks to projects involving such contemporary composers as Philip Glass, Steve Reich and a slew of others, “new music” in the classical realm increasingly arrives paired with remarkably sophisticated experiments — projects that don’t so much illustrate the music as complement and expand upon it.

Maya Beiser, the Israeli-born, New York-based cellist who made her official Chicago debut this weekend at the Museum of Contemporary Art Theatre, is exceptionally at home with such a blending of disciplines. Not only does her warm, golden sound permeate even the most searing and challenging passages of the music she plays, but she appears to have the ease of a hip-hop turntable spin-meister when it comes to interacting with technology, so the music consistently remains the most crucial message.

In fact, the title of her current program, “Almost Human,” could not be more appropriate. For despite Beiser’s lavish use of video, sampled and live voices, and electronic multitracks, she never loses touch with the all-important human element of live music. And the many composers who have created pieces for her seem to have understood very well that it is this human voice — whether spoken, sung or played on the cello — that remains the most expressive engine for this musician. Beiser performs alone, yet she never seems alone onstage. For not only does she willingly cede the spotlight to the eye-catching video images that often surround her, but she is accompanied sonically by an array of voices. She also chats with the audience from time to time to introduce some pieces.

Dressed in mock-goth (her long reddish locks accenting a conductor’s coat worn with black velvet leggings, a punky deconstructed blouse, and high-heeled boots), Beiser began her program with Michael Gordon’s mournful “Light Is Calling,” accompanied by Bill Morrison’s haunting sepia-toned footage of an old piece of film that has undergone chemical decay, allowing only brief bits of the story to be revealed.

“Khse Buon,” a work by Cambodian composer Chinary Ung written in the wake of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime, was infused with both a low moaning sound and a driving sense of anxiety that Beiser captured to fine dramatic effect. Chinese composer Tan Dun’s “Feige/Antiphonal Song” was a captivating duet between Beiser and a young female singer of China’s minority Miao population who is seen on tape in gently manipulated form. The girl’s song is rooted in an across-the-miles conversation she is having with a potential mate far from her village.

British composer Joby Talbot also took a cue from Asian music with his “Motion Detector,” a work that draws on a Taiwanese Buddhist harvest ritual. And Beiser tapped the work’s rich theatricality — from its low humming sounds to its thrilling percussive crescendo section. The program’s first half closed with “Cello Counterpoint,” a work written for Beiser by Steve Reich and performed here in celebration of the composer’s 70th birthday year. The counterpoint is made manifest through a black-and-white film by Morrison that captures seven images of Beiser playing the work. This is a gorgeous, compulsively listenable piece that has Reich’s trademark repetition, as well as a strong hint of Hebraic chant, and Beiser mined all its sensuality and emotion.

The second half of Beiser’s concert was devoted to her newest commission — Eve Beglarian’s “I am writing to you from a far-off country” — settings of a poem by Belgian writer Henri Michaux, with video projections by Iranian-American artist Shirin Neshat. Here Beiser not only plays Beglarian’s score, which is laced with music evoking her Armenian-Christian roots, but she speaks sections of Michaux’s mysterious poetry (about a woman writing to her distant lover) with great beauty and naturalness, while Neshat’s videos play on a “technological landscape” of seven screens of various sizes. This is a work of great texture and variety, and the three artists have managed a seamless meshing of their disciplines to evoke the poem’s dreamscape.

For a generous encore, Beiser played the lushly sensual “Mariel,” by Osvaldo Golijov, as cross-cultural in his influences as the cellist herself.

by Matthew Richter

I am an expert in nothing; certainly not contemporary solo cello performance. I know nothing of the larger musical context into which Maya Beiser’s work fits. I don’t know if she’s “redefining the cello’s boundaries” because I don’t know where the cello’s boundaries lay prior to her arrival. I’m not sure I could tell you how many strings are on a cello (four, right?).

What I do know is that halfway through Ms. Beiser’s first set of solo cello performance last night at On the Boards, there were tears rolling uncontrollably down my face. It happened again in the second set-not tears of sadness or of joy necessarily, but tears of recognition I think… acknowledgement of the presence of a miraculous beauty.

I feel the need here to point out that I’m (generally) no pussy, no crybaby, no pushover. Repeatedly wiping tears away I thought of the fabled “brown note,” a sub-audible tone that, reproduced at sufficient volume, reportedly resonates with your intestines and causes immediate defecation. There must, I thought, simply be a “wet note,” one that physiologically forces uncontrollable crying, and she must be playing it very, very loudly. But the simple truth is that the waves of emotion translated into sound that continually swept from the stage last night were overwhelming.

Wallace Shawn has described the sound of the rosined bow cutting into the violin string as “like a deep-rooted orgasm squeezed out into a rope of sound.” Following his analogy, Ms. Beiser spends hours coiling mile after mile of ecstatically sensual rope around the room. It’s an exceptionally strong rope, and warm (almost hot) to the touch, and sopping wet.

Watching Ms. Beiser sit alone onstage, watching her hands move up and down the cello like a lover, it’s obvious that she’s the one playing it, the one making those sounds happen. But at another glance it’s also possible to see her as simply the one of us who happens to be closest to the cello, hugging it because it can make such perfect music. At times she looks more like the blissed-out fan swaying eyes closed by the speaker stacks than the performer onstage. She is listening to this music just as intently, perhaps more intently, than she is playing it. Being there with her, listening with her, watching this music flow through her (coming from god-only-knows where) is a transcendent experience.

Matthew Richter is a loafer and a dilettante. His most recent work, Dinner Theater, premiered in September on the On the Boards mainstage. He is the founder of Consolidated Works contemporary arts center and Rm 608 gallery for visual and performing arts. He is a nationally published writer, former Performance Editor of The Stranger, and has lectured on the arts at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts. He designs and produces a line of original furniture, available in Seattle at Retrofit Home.

Almost Human

by C Snyder

Maya was exceptional tonight. Her journey became our journey and the full house seemed to gladly follow towards, what I perceived as being, her exploration of place, migration and nomadism.

To watch Maya play a cello is somewhat similar to seeing the setting sun. It’s through movement that one gains a better understanding of the complexity and beauty. Her left hand working the fingerboard from top to bottom, alternating between a blurred furry to a slumbering vibrato, while her right hand works the bow seemingly cutting and stabbing into the strings. All the while, Maya has her cello nestled into her body or held at hands length, much like you would love your lover. Which is to say, watching the astonishing act of an artist making music allows the audience greater opportunity to understand the music.

Which leads me to my dilemma with the Almost Human show, I want to see and hear the artist perform without distraction. Yet several of Maya Beiser’s works in this show include projected video or video through television monitors on stage. As a result, the music seemed to change context and the audience reconfigured into a more cinematic experience. The two videos included in the first five pieces in the show are the work of filmmaker Bill Morrison. Light Is Calling (2004) is the most recent of his found footage works and Cello Counterpoint (2006) was expressly made to illustrate how Maya Beiser constructed the audio of the Steve Reich commissioned arrangement. The last piece, which comprises the entire second part of the evening, is a multi-channel video displayed on video monitors. With Maya seated down center stage, there are four monitors to her left and four to her right, alternating between black and white and color images of a film by Shirin Neshat, commissioned specifically for this piece.

So who am I to complain or question?
Bill Morrison’s work is engaging and he’s doing important work. Likewise, Shirin Neshat has such profound access into the sublime that I could hardly grumble at having to see her work through sloppy monitors on stage.

Yet the music that Maya Beiser makes takes you to world far beyond what 24 or 30 frames per second can ever hope to contain and contextualize. Watching her move though compositions using a mixture of muscle memory, imagination and exhaustive effort should never be compromised. It provides a topographical map which enables some sense of bearing over the immensely dense and provocative sounds from her performance. However, Maya Beiser included the video work for a reason, so I will continue to trust her artistic voice and look deeper for the connections. I just hope that we haven’t reached the point in our culture where every creative act needs a television turned on to be considered valid, or worse yet, accessible.