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SUNDAY!! Trevor Wishart at CalArts
Title: SUNDAY!! Trevor Wishart at
CalArts
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The making of IMAGO
and
Demonstration of SOUND LOOM software
by Trevor WISHART
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In conjunction with his January 31st performance at REDCAT
(as part of the CalArts CEAIT Festival) English composer TREVOR
WISHART will discuss the making of his electroacoustic piece
IMAGO.
Organized by American Composers Forum Technology
Program
California Institute of the Arts
24700 McBean Parkway
Valencia, CA 90291
Room A116 - two floors below main entrance (follow the
signs)
Sunday, FEBRUARY 01, 2004, 3:00-5:00
PM
$10 admission*
*no charge for CalArts community
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IMAGO, 16-channel, live diffused playback of piece that
explores sound metamorphosis in which the single clink of two
wine-glasses is used to generate a whole world of other sounds, from
instruments to suggestions of birdsong, a strange gamelan, the sea and
the human voice itself.
Trevor Wishart (b. 1946) (www.trevorwishart.co.uk) is an
independent composer living and working in the North of England. He is
currently an Honorary Professor at the University of York. Committed
to new approaches to music making, he has developed many new
instruments (as signal processing software) for musical composition,
is a founder member of the "Composer's Desktop Project", a
composers' cooperative, and author of On Sonic Art and Audible
Design.
For information on TREVOR WISHART and his work,
see:
http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk
For information on (and the latest download of) the SOUND
LOOM software, see:
http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/slfull.html
For information on CEAIT Festival and REDCAT, see:
http://redcatweb.org/season/music/ceait.html
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TREVOR WISHART (b.1946) is an independent composer living and
working in the North of England. He has held residencies or visiting
professorships in Australia, Canada, Holland, Sweden, and the USA and
at the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leeds in
the UK. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of
York.
His most well-known works include Red Bird (1977), awarded a
Euphonie d'Or at the 1992 Bourges Festival, the Vox cycle (1980-88)
first heard in full at the 1989 Proms, and Tongues Of Fire, winner of
the Golden Nica for computer music at the Linz Ars Electronica
Festival, 1995. His work has been commissioned by IRCAM, the Paris
Biennale, the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the
DAAD in Berlin, the French Ministry of Culture and the BBC
Proms.
Committed to new approaches to music making, he has developed
many new instruments (as signal processing software) for musical
composition, is a founder member of the "Composer's Desktop
Project", a composers cooperative, and author of On Sonic Art and
Audible Design.
In addition he is well known
for his pioneering work in taking music out of conventional venues
into public open spaces, youth clubs, schools and other community
venues, and developing workshop techniques to encourage others to
develop their creative potential. The Sounds Fun books of
musical games have subsequently been republished in Japanese. In the
year 2000, Birthrite, a Fleeting Opera (with Max Couper and Tom
Sapsford) was presented on moving barges on the Thames with performers
from the Royal Opera House and Royal Ballet. He was also the
sound designer for the Jorvik Viking Centre (York), the first
multimedia museum installation in the UK.
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