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Technosonics Festival III
February 7, 2003
Concert 8:15pm, Old Cabell Concert Hall, UVa
$10/$5 ART$
Panel discussion/Colloquium 3:30pm Old Cabell Hall room 107
Free
presented by:
Virginia Center for Computer Music
McIntire Department of Music
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
http://www.virginia.edu/music/technosonics/
http://www.virginia.edu/music/VCCM/
The Technosonics Festival returns on Friday February 7th at 8:15 pm in
Old Cabell Hall Auditorium with an exciting concert of new computer music.
This year Technosonics explores new directions computer music is taking
in the new century. Virtual instruments, innovative approaches to sound
synthesis, surround sound, and multimedia composition will be featured.
Visiting composer, Charles Nichols, will perform the premiere of
"Guqin,"the first piece in his large-scale "Strata 3" composition.
"Guqin," named after the Chinese zither instrument, is composed for an
electric violin played without a bow. UVa faculty, Matthew Burtner will
perform visiting composer Chris Burns' "Questions and Fissures" for
soprano saxophone and two speakers along with the US premiere of
Burtner's own "S-Morphe-S" for a soprano saxophone singing bowl
hybrid instrument. Burns will perform Ching-Wen Chao's "The Captured
Shadow" for soprano trombone and computer, a work exploring theatrical
aspects of live electronic music. Inspired by novels of Fitzgerald,
"The Captured Shadow" experiments with the representation of literal
meanings in music, such as "betrayal" and "emptiness." The concert
will also feature "Four Voice Canons" and "Anna Studies" by 2002 UVa
Guest Composer Larry Polansky, and Maggi Payne's video work, "Apparent
Horizons," a piece combining sounds and images from National Parks and
from NASA footage taken by the Space Shuttle and Apollo series
astronauts into alien landscapes/soundscapes questioning our
relationship to our own environment.
Before the concert please join the Music Department Colloquium Series
for a panel discussion on computer music at 3:30pm in B014 Old Cabell
Hall. The panel, moderated by Matthew Burtner, will feature visiting
composers/performers/researchers Chris Burns and Charles Nichols,
visiting UVa faculty Stefania Serafin, and Technical Director of the
VCCM, David Topper.
Program:
Maggi Payne
"Apparent Horizons" (1996), (12:00) video
Matthew Burtner
"S-Morphe-S" (2002) (7:00) soprano saxophone singing bowl
Matthew Burtner, soprano saxophone
Larry Polansky
Four Voice Canon #10 (1997) Four Boys Mannin (1:05)
Ching Wen Chao
"The Captured Shadow" (2001) soprano trombone and computer (10:00)
Chris Burns, soprano trombone
Larry Polansky
"Anna Studies"
"Study: Anna, the long and the short of it" (1993) (0:56)
"#9 b (6:7:8:9) (1994) Anna Canon" (4:04)
"Study: baa baa birthday have you any star?" (1995) (1:46)
Chris Burns
"Questions and Fissures" (1999) (11:00) soprano saxophone and CD
Matthew Burtner, soprano saxophone
Larry Polansky
"Four Voice Canons #16 (2002) Canon in One Octave for Arthur
Farwell" (2:01)
Charles Nichols
Guqin (2003) (5:30) electric violin
Charles Nichols, electric violin
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