EMF @ Chelsea Art Museum
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EMF presented six concerts during May 2004 at the Chelsea
Art Museum in Manhattan, New York City. Joan La Barbara and Joel
Chadabe were co-producers. Langdon Crawford was technical director.
Thomas Beyer was technical consultant for HPSCHD. Omie Nivens
was house manager. Roland Corporation provided the loudspeakers,
synthesizers, and mixers. Symbolic Sound Corporation provided
the Kyma Sound Production System. Many thanks to C. F. Peters
Corporation for their support. These events were made possible
by public funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.

Monday, May 3 at 8pm
Cristin Wildbolz: K9 + ONE
Cristin Wildbolz performed new works for double bass and electronics
composed by nine women from four continents. The program included
Spiral Jetty by Huba de Graaff (Netherlands), Lullaby
by Barbara Woof (Australia), Yume by Margrit Rieben (Switzerland),
Contra-Voice by Keren Rosenbaum (Israel), Diaphonie
II by Mela Meierhans (Switzerland), Urban Dreams by
Haruna Miyake (Japan), ZsOom by Katharina Rosenberger
(Switzerland), Dido by Mayke Nas (Netherlands), and Inner
Voice by Anne LeBaron (USA).
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Tuesday, May 4 at 6pm
Music by Elzbieta Sikora: "Beyond Sounds"
From sound collage typical of musique concrète to sounds
based on instruments, Elzbieta Sikora completed a year of artistic
exploration at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales in Paris. She
brought her latest works from Paris to New York. The program
included Flashback, Geometries Variables, Aquamarina,
Grains de Sable / Grains of Sand, and Suite, for
cello and electronic sounds, performed by Rubin Kodheli.
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Tuesday,
May 4 at 8pm
Jean-Claude Risset: Portrait of the Composer
Jean-Claude Risset, winner of the prestigious CNRS Gold Medal
in France, pioneer in computer music and digital audio from the
first days at Bell Labs in the 1960s, made an exceptional appearance
in New York to present several of his most important electronic
works. The program started with an interview conducted by Joel
Chadabe on the early days of research in generating sound with
computers at Bell Telephone Laboratories. The program continued
with Risset's Mutations, composed in 1969. Mutations
was shown in a special version, integrated with an award-winning
film by Lillian Schwartz. The film is based on computer images,
laser beams diffracted in plastics, and crystal growth in polarized
light. The program continued with Variants, for electronic
sounds and violin, performed by Mari Kimura, then excerpts from
Resonant Sound Spaces and Elementa: Focus, Aer, Terra
for multichannel computer-generated sounds.
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Thursday,
May 6 at 9pm
Frances Marie Uitti: Bowed Electricity
Frances Marie Uitti, extraordinary cellist, author of a book
on new cello techniques, recently visiting faculty at Oberlin
Conservatory, and well known for unique technical approaches
to performance such as polyphonic chordal playing through the
simultaneous use of two bows, presented her recent work with
electronics. In this evening's program, Uitti performed an extended
improvisation with her 6-string electric cello, custom-designed
software, and her innovative double-bow polyphony. She also performed
an improvisational duet with violinist Mari Kimura.
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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. In this concert of his
recent music, he presents six works not previously heard in New
York. The program will include Robert Johnson Sampler,
Gate Beats, and Neighborhood Ears, all performed
by the composer. Also The Real Thief of Baghdad, for voice
and electronic sounds, performed by Tyrone Henderson; Body
Work, for voice and electronic sounds, performed by Joan
La Barbara; and Fiddle Faddle, for violin and electronic
sounds, performed by Todd Reynolds.
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Saturday, May 8 from 8 -
11pm
John Cage and Lejaren Hiller: HPSCHD
John Cage and Lejaren Hiller composed HPSCHD in the 1960s
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. This presentation at the Chelsea
Art Museum used synthesizers instead of harpsichords and video
and DVD projectors instead of slide and film projectors. It is,
as artistic director Joel Chadabe put it, "a new production
of HPSCHD for the 21st century." The synthesizer performances
were by Robert Conant, Anthony de Mare, and Joseph Kubera. The
conception of this production and its artistic direction was
by Joel Chadabe, realized by Langdon Crawford as technical director,
with assistance from Thomas Beyer as technical consultant. The
performance ran continuously from 8 to 11pm. Members of the public
were invited to enter, leave, and re-enter the performance space
at any time and stay as long as they liked.
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for more info:
Joel Chadabe
President
Electronic Music Foundation
116 North Lake Avenue
Albany, New York 12206
USA
e-mail: joel@emf.org
wwweb: http://www.emf.org
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