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Preconcert (and between sets)
Ambient Interludes
For Live electronics
jhno is improvising a live mix of soundsand
textures from pre-recorded sources and algorithmic synthesis, sculpted, shaped, and beat-matched using customsoftware
he wrote on his powerbook.
SET ONE: 1:00PM - 3:30PM
Sekar Gadung
Gamelan Sekar Jaya performs the worldpremiere
of "Sekar Gadung" for Balinese gamelan angklung (a 20-member percussion orchestra ofbronze metallaphones,
gongs, and drums). The piece was composed by virtuoso drummer and composer I Dewa Putu Berata,Sekar Jaya's current
Guest Music Director.
Quarter Turn
For live electronics
Two contrasting textures, one builtfrom
pure tones and one from modulated noise, are mixed and overlaid to form a sonic space more like a lake thana landscape.
Dan Becker
Tamper Resistant
A cover tune. Music of Telemann istreated
like silly putty: twisted, stretched, and shaped into a minimalist image of itself.
Mark Grey
Blood Red
Joan Jeanrenaud, cello
This world premiere performance bythe
most profound contemporary music cellist pushes solo repertoire way beyond musical tradition. The composers integration
of the latest realtime audio processing technology splashes Jeanrenaud s digital playground withradical new colors,
shapes and textures.
Elinor Armer
Shivaree
For piano, flute, two violins, viola,and
horn
A Shivaree is a raucous serenade spontaneouslyperformed,
usually under the window of newlyweds on their wedding night, with the express purpose of disruptingtheir bliss
as much as possible.
1N34A
Xopher Davidson, Thomas Day, GregoryLenczycki,
live electronics
1N34A is a live electronic networkof
open circuits, finite decisions, and infinite possibilities.
Sunburst (scense 1-7)
Paul Schick, libretto
Sunburst is a collaborative semi-improvisedopera
instigated by Paul Schick. It s a metaphysical science fiction piece in which we locate creativity in theidentity
between the individual imagination and its collective counterpart.
SET TWO: 3:30PM
- 6:00PM
Randall Woolf
Angel Dust
Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-AcousticBand
The sounds of Angel Dust come fromthe
composers s childhood world: psychedelic soundscapes, trashy garage-rock, where the rhythm always verges onfalling
apart, and sliding, wailing guitars.
Paul Hanosn
Pull of the Gold Rope
Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-AcousticBand
A world premiere by the Ensemble sown
stellar virtuoso bassoonist,
Flandreau Goodheart - Powell Trio
No Melody for Wadada
&for glasses, saw, violin and piano.A
brief exploration of the melodic quality of sonority and the sonorous quality of melody.
Judgment Day
For Tape
A remix, blending an unlikely combinationof
religious reverence and sardonic commentary on our modern world, using an excerpt from Jonathan Berger's 'ThreeSongs
for Jerusalem', along with the disquieting rhythm of the Clinton acquittal.
Trio
(Kui Dong, Larry Polansky, Christian Wolff)
New Work
A synthesis of the music of three accomplishedcomposer/performers.
Wild Why
Jon Leidecker, samplers, effects, mixer
Basis material: hip-hop and urban popmusic
sourced from local commercial radio broadcasts. Actual content becomes audible when the pop form is destroyed.
Point Takenand
Emotional Ventriloquist
Michael Grandi, guitar and composition;Ashley
Adams, double bass; Michael Pukish, percussion; Bob Dowling; alto sax
Point Taken: A pointillistic syncopatedwhole-tone
meditation in eleven.
SET THREE:
6:00PM - 8:30PM
Jay Cloidt
Life Is Good &And People AreBasically
Decent
Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-AcousticBand
A suite written by for the Paul DresherEnsemble,
designed to show off their polyglot instrumental virtuosity in a wide range of genres. It zigzags aroundthe globe
stylistically and flits from a witty playfulness to deeply felt emotion.
Follow
Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-AcousticBand
A groove based, high energy work composedfor
the Paul Dresher Ensemble as part of a commission from the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company for their work Fault,an
evening-length choreographic work.
Silvia Matheus
Cloy
For tape
Patricia Lusk, a 70 year old woman,generously
offered her contagious laughter to be the material for Cloy. Each stage of Patricia s conscience portraysthe love,
desire, hate, and satisfaction bursting into a new and unconcealed world of sound texture and absurdity.
Brian Reinbolt
Respirateur
For digital horn and computer
Respirateur (Breather): "I likebreathing
better than working" Duchamp. Respirateur is a breathy warble from my lovely perch on the tree oflife.
Michael Fiday
Slapback
Paul Binkley, electric guitar
An electric guitarist wakes up. Thereis
a fruit bowl on the counter containing several different composers. He takes Beethoven, Louis Andriessen andPete
Townshend, puts them in a blender, drinks the results and procedes to jam into a digital delay unit.
Ashley
Adams & Danielle DeGruttola Duo
Song of the Bottomfeeders
Ashley Adams, electric upright bass;Danielle DeGruttola, electric cello
"Bottomfeeders" are illusivecreatures
that exist at the bottom on leftovers from above and below. Their song is a low-end contrapuntal fusionmoving in
and out of improvisation.
Lacrymosa
For soprano, clarinet, and piano
"I enjoy setting Latin texts andhad
waited for the right moment to set this beautiful passage from the Requiem mass. Basically I was striving foran
affecting work of simple intimacy that speaks to the heart."
Live Electronic Improvisation
Chris Brown, Scott Gresham-Lancaster,Tim
Perkis, live electronics
High-energy, dense live improvisationand
composition, using an assortment of homebuilt electronic and software-based instruments.
SET FOUR: 8:30PM
- 11:00PM
Paul Dresher
Din of Iniquity
Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-AcousticBand
A modal and harmonic exploration ofa
particular mode that the composer encountered in his studies of North Indian classical music.
Cindy Cox
Into the Wild
Paul Dresher Ensemble Electro-AcousticBand
In August 1992 the starved and emaciatedcorpse
of twenty-four year old Christopher McCandless was discovered at a remote campsite in the Alaskan wilderness.Into
the Wild musically illustrates some of the emotional states McCandless might have gone through: innocent andjoyous
anticipation, eager recklessness, frustration, fear, pain, sorrow, and finally acceptance.
Portals of Distortion
The Metasaxophone Ensemble
Inspired by the glacial movement ofice
in northern Alaska, "Portals of Distortion" for nine tenor saxophones explores concepts of sonicfissure
and the inherent chaotic aspects of the instrumental sound.
David Del Tredici
Three Songs for Baritone and Piano
Richard Lalli, baritone
One of America s most iconoclasticand
unique compositional personalites presents three of his most recent songs. Subjects include Matthew Shepard,poets
include Rumi.
YAWP
David Nadal, guitar
To yawp in Roget s Thesaurusmeans
to "complain, gaze, roar, and yelp."
Crust
For clarinet and computer generatedsound.
Bay Area composer/clarinetist/softwaredesigner
matt ingalls performs his award winning composition, "Crust" for clarinet and computer-drivensounds.
Works
Rob Burger, accordian; Carla Kihlstedt,violin;
Mark Orton, guitar
At once experimental and familiar,Tin
Hat Trio has created a style that blends tango, bluegrass, contemporary classical, and Eastern European folktraditions
with an avant-garde sensibility.