Grammy winner Henry Kaiser is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz, world, and contemporary experimental musics. The California-based musician is one of the most extensively recorded as well, having appeared on more than 300 different albums and contributed to countless television […]
Latitudes: Bill Orcutt and Zachary James Watkins
Latitudes: 7:00pm doors, 7:30pm concert Bill Orcutt As one of experimental music’s most influential guitarists, Bill Orcutt weaves looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of American primitivism, outsider jazz, and a stripped-down re-envisioning of the possibilities of the guitar. Whether he’s playing his decrepit Kay acoustic or gutted electric Telecaster […]
Latitudes: Bill Orcutt and Zachary James Watkins
Latitudes: 7:00pm doors, 7:30pm concert Bill Orcutt As one of experimental music’s most influential guitarists, Bill Orcutt weaves looping melodic lines and angular attack into a dense, fissured landscape of American primitivism, outsider jazz, and a stripped-down re-envisioning of the possibilities of the guitar. Whether he’s playing his decrepit Kay acoustic or gutted electric Telecaster […]
OboeTronics II, with Glenda Bates and Brandon Labadie
OboeTronics II features 21st century electro-acoustic works for oboe. The program presents the oboe, an archaically old instrument, as a beacon of virtuosity and timbral expression for contemporary composition. Glenda Bates wants people to think of oboe and English horn when they think of contemporary music. Her goal is to present and perform as many […]
OboeTronics II, with Glenda Bates and Brandon Labadie
OboeTronics II features 21st century electro-acoustic works for oboe. The program presents the oboe, an archaically old instrument, as a beacon of virtuosity and timbral expression for contemporary composition. Glenda Bates wants people to think of oboe and English horn when they think of contemporary music. Her goal is to present and perform as many […]
Meshes: Leslee Smucker
In her solo violin project “Meshes,” Leslee Smucker explores the strange and unnerving relationship between dream and reality by juxtaposing the music of Conor Abbott Brown, Lera Auerbach, Luc Brewaeys, Michel van der Aa, Locatelli, and film of Maya Deren. The film “Meshes of the Afternoon,” by Maya Deren is set neither in reality or […]
Meshes: Leslee Smucker
In her solo violin project “Meshes,” Leslee Smucker explores the strange and unnerving relationship between dream and reality by juxtaposing the music of Conor Abbott Brown, Lera Auerbach, Luc Brewaeys, Michel van der Aa, Locatelli, and film of Maya Deren. The film “Meshes of the Afternoon,” by Maya Deren is set neither in reality or […]
Adventures with Musical Data: Transforming Sound Recordings into Music Notation via MIDI
In this hands-on composition workshop, we’ll explore how to transform audio recordings into MIDI information and music notation. In the process, we’ll reverse-engineer Austrian composer Peter Ablinger’s “Deus Cantando” (check out the linked YouTube video), get our hands dirty with sound information in various formats and representations, and come away with some practical knowledge about […]
Adventures with Musical Data: Transforming Sound Recordings into Music Notation via MIDI
In this hands-on composition workshop, we’ll explore how to transform audio recordings into MIDI information and music notation. In the process, we’ll reverse-engineer Austrian composer Peter Ablinger’s “Deus Cantando” (check out the linked YouTube video), get our hands dirty with sound information in various formats and representations, and come away with some practical knowledge about […]
HUSH Series – The Long Tone Choir: autumn
autumn is the fourth in a five-part series of performance installations created by the Long Tone Choir, based on the seasons. The soundscape of autumn is inspired by the season’s processes of descending, diminishing and condensing. Over the course of an hour, the sound slowly shifts from harmonically and texturally dense to sparse with surprises […]