Chirp: NEC's Music Technology Showcase | Night 4
New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a six-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.
On May 8 and 9 at 8 p.m., students of faculty member John Mallia present two programs of performative works involving real-time signal processing and interactivity with instrumental, vocal, and electronic sources, spatialized fixed media audio (acousmatic), multimedia, and lighting. A multimedia work collaborated on by NEC composers and visual arts students from the London University of the Arts will be included. As a special treat, the group will also present a performance of Toshi Ichiyanagi’s “Appearance,” an experimental work for one string instrument, one brass instrument, and an organ with two electronics operators involving controlled improvisation and coincidence-based modulation.
"I have been presenting electronic music showcases and concerts at NEC regularly since 2005, many of which have been part of citywide technology festivals, collaborations with other local art institutions, programs featuring guest artists, and a recent international conference. Electronic music concert programs have been consistently presented every year at NEC for approximately 50 years since Robert Ceely began teaching courses in the early seventies. The very first piece of electronic ‘tape music’ ever created, “The Expression of Zaar,” was realized on a wire tape recorder with studio effects processing in 1944 by the Egyptian composer Halim El-Dabh, who is an NEC alum. So, the history of all types of electronic music at NEC is very longstanding and rich." — John Mallia
This program features performances and diffusions of works involving real-time electronics and/or fixed media (acousmatic, multimedia, and film scoring). The majority of pieces being presented tonight were created as part of NEC's Electroacoustic Music and Composing for Film and Multimedia courses.
John Mallia | Blear
fixed multimedia
Mason Ishida | Scene for piano and gong transduction
Artists- Mason Ishida, piano
Yun-Ke Chen | Route
fixed multichannel audio
Jyun-Rong Ho | The Extinctions
Artists- Li-An Yu, cello
- Jyun-Rong Ho, electronics
Rohan Zakharia | Destroyer
fixed multimedia
Austin Engelhardt | Gutai for piano, transducers, and quadrophonic diffusion
Artists- Hidemi Akaiwa, piano
- Austin Engelhardt, electronics
Jake Walters | Freestyle
Artists- Jake Walters, rapping and beat slicing
Monstar Cao and Ziwei Tang | Purify
fixed multimedia
This work is part of "Visual Symphony", a collaborative project initiated by Monstar Cao between NEC composers and visual art students at the University of the Arts, London
Artists- Monstar Cao, music and sound
- Ziwei Tang, performance artist
Bram Fisher | Insomnia
Artists- Chihiro Asano, voice
- Kevin Sor, movement
- Bram Fisher, video and electronics
Njord Fossnes | Heptych II
for viola and fixed media
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VII.Artists- Njord Fossnes, viola
Gabriel Boyarin | Improvisation
Artists- Gabriel Boyarin, guitar and electronics
Toshi Ichiyanagi | Appearance
Artists- Bram Fisher, viola
- Cooper Malanowski, trombone
- Jake Walters, microtonal pump organ
- Jordan Lau and Yun-Ke Chen, oscillators
New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a six-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.
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New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a six-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.
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New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a six-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.
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New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a six-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.
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New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a six-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.
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New England Conservatory students electrify the Black Box Theater during Chirp, a six-night music technology performance series showcasing live electronic music and cutting-edge music tech.
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