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EMF @ Chelsea Art Museum
May 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 2004
More information
www.arts-electric.org/emfevents/spring04/
events@emf.org
518.434.4110
Tickets: $10, $5 students, CAM members, and EMF Friends & Subscribers
Monday,
May 3 at 8pm
Cristin Wildbolz
K9 + ONE
Cristin Wildbolz, double bassist, performs new works for
double-bass and electronics composed by nine women from four continents.
Wildbolz "confronts" these
compositions and creates her own "instant composing" in
space, light and movement. In her words, "I hear with my eyes,
my skin, my body. My movement and posture generate the sound."
Tuesday,
May 4 at 6pm
Elzbieta Sikora
"Beyond Sounds"
From sound collage typical of musique concrète
to sounds based on
instruments, Elzbieta Sikora has just completed a year of artistic
exploration at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. She
brings her latest surround-sound works from Paris to New York.
With a performance by Rubin Kodheli, cello.
Tuesday, May 4 at 8pm
Jean-Claude Risset
Computer Music Pioneer
Jean-Claude Risset makes an exceptional appearance
in New York to present several of his most important electronic
works. The program will begin with an interview with Joel Chadabe on the
early days of making music with computers at Bell Telephone laboratories.
Risset's Mutations, composed in 1969, will be heard in a special
version integrated with Lillian Schwartz's award-winning film
based on computer images, laser beams diffracted in plastics, and crystal
growth in polarized light. The program will continue with other
works, including a performance by Mari Kimura, violinist.
Thursday, May 6 at 9pm
Frances Marie Uitti
Bowed Electricity
Frances Marie Uitti, extraordinary cellist, presents
an extended improvisation with her 6-string electric cello, custom-designed
software, and her innovative double-bow polyphony. She will also
perform an improvisational duet with Mari Kimura.
Friday, May 7 at 8pm
Neil B. Rolnick
Playing with the Laptop, Plus ...
Neil B. Rolnick composes and performs
with a computer, and his aesthetic sense guides his music in
an eclectic direction, incorporating
elements of improvisation, jazz, popular idioms, and classical
electronic performance. This concert of his recent music includes
performances by Joan La Barbara, voice, Tyrone Henderson, voice,
and Todd Reynolds, violin.
Saturday, May 8 from 8 to 11pm
John Cage and Lejaren Hiller
HPSCHD
First performed at the University of IIlinois on May 16, 1969,
in a five-hour spectacle attended by 8000 people, HPSCHD called
for 7 harpsichords playing computer-processed versions of music
by Mozart and later composers, 51 tapes of computer-generated
sounds, 6400 slide images, and 40 films projected on large screens
throughout
the performance space. HPSCHD is arguably the largest and wildest
composition of the 20th century.
This performance at the Chelsea Art Museum, with synthesizers
instead of harpsichords, and video and DVD projectors instead of
slide
and film projectors, is a new production for the 21st century.
The synthesizer players are Robert Conant, Anthony de Mare, and
Joseph Kubera.
Roland Corporation donated the loudspeakers, synthesizers, and
mixers.
Symbolic Sound Corporation made available a Kyma electronic
music system.
These events are made possible with public funds from the New
York State Council on the Arts.
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