Technosonics XX - Concert I at The Bridge PAI

2020-02-21 (Creation date: 2020-03-30)

McIntire Department of Music

Concert I
Friday, February 21, 2020 at 8:00 pm The Bridge PAI
featuring Ryoko Akama

David Tudor’s Rainforest IV          Sound Art Students
Violinguistics          Three Blind MICE
Dark Parts          Becky Brown
Remembering with Objects          Heather Frasch & Ted Coffey
Deep Map #1          Michele Zaccagnini
Interruptions in an Endless Expanse          Max Tfirn
(shimatsu)          Ryoko Akama

Rainforest IV — Sound Art Students
Installation by David Tudor 1973
Realized by students of Sound Art in Practice

Rainforest IV by David Tudor runs found sounds through found objects. By sending sounds through materials, the resonant nodes of the materials are released, creating a new kind of sound that blends the sounds and objects together. According to Tudor, the concept for the piece grew out of a “dream-vision of an orchestra of loudspeakers, each speaker being as unique as any musical instrument.” The students designed or chose their own objects, decided on which sounds and came to a consensus about placement.

Participants are encourage to move around the installation and explore the sounds close up. They can carefully touch the objects to feel the vibrations as well as listen more closely.

Violinguistics — Three Blind Mice

Violinguistics: Electro-acoustic phonetic reduplication through violin
morphologies of formant-shifting nonconcatenative morphemes

Dark Parts — Becky Brown

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Remembering with Objects — Ted Coffey & Heather Frasch

Duo Coffey and Frasch will realize this text score by Frasch which maps personal connections among memory, places, and self — and the objects that remind us of those things.

Deep Map #1 — Michele Zaccagnini

The piece is a recent development of a practice I am developing that I named “deep mapping”: deep mapping is an approach that allows the composer to store and render musical data into visuals by “catching” the data at its source, at a compositional stage. The advantages of this approach are: accuracy and discreteness in the representation of musical features; computational efficiency; and, more abstractly, the stimulation of a practice of audiovisual composition that encourages composers to envision their multimedia output from the early stages of their work. In particular, this piece explores ways of rendering synchronicity between same or similar patterns so that when synchronization actually happens, one can experience it not only aurally but visually.

Interruptions in an Endless Expanse — Max Tfirn

Interruptions in an Endless Expanse is a composition for interactive electronics, including various drone synths, guitar pedals, sequencers, and live coding. The composition takes shape through a series of long, drone sounds that slowly morph into one another. As the piece progresses, new sounds are introduced that break away from what was previously heard culminating in sonic disorder. Interruptions in an Endless Expanse takes its name from the idea of a made-up scenery being endless to the eye. Looking in any direction gives the viewer the same sight. While the environment changes, the endless expanse seems to go unchanged. It is only when the observer takes a deeper look around that the details start to change and the surroundings take a helter-skelter, eldritch turn.

(shimatsu) — Ryoko Akama

i.e. beginning + ending management
dealing
settlement
cleaning up
getting rid of
(usually bad) end result
This is the fifth of her solo performance series, shimatsu, with contraptions made out of found objects and simple electronic devices, creating a subtle, sometimes violently silent, listening situation.

Becky Brown (Composer); Michele Zaccagnini (Composer); Max Tfirn (Composer); Ryoko Akama (Composer); Heather Frasch (Composer); Ted Coffey (Composer); Matthew Burtner (Performer); Elie Bashkow (Performer); Noah Tinsley (Performer); McIntire Department of Music

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