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acf/LA teXalon June 22 - VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC SPACES
Title: acf/LA teXalon June 22 - VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC
SPACES
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COMPOSITION AND PERFORMANCE IN VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC
SPACES
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DATE: Sunday, JUNE 22,
2003
2:00 - 5:00 PM
PLACE: Boston Court Theatre
70
North Mentor Avenue
Pasadena, CA 90021
(626) 683-6883
http://bostoncourttheatre.com/
DONATION:
$5.00
DIRECTIONS: 210 Freeway to Lake
exit
N.
Lake Ave south past E. Union St.
Left
on Boston Court, 1 block to N. Mentor
Parking behind theater
http://bostoncourttheatre.com/165033.html
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THE TECHNOLOGY, THE VENUE, THE PROGRAM
Recent developments in concert hall electroacoustics and
digital matrix mixing offer exciting new options for performance of
live music. Level Control Systems is among the leading developers of
such tools, and the installation of an LCS-based multichannel sound
system in the newly-opened Theatre at Boston Court in Pasadena
provides a chance to explore some of the musical possibilities of
these new technologies.
Boston Court
Theatre is an intimate, state-of-the-art performing arts
complex with a 99-seat theater and 60-seat performance space. It is
equipped with a 20-speaker surround sound system with a Level Control Systems
digital matrix mixer, and featuring the LCS Variable Room Acoustics
System (VRAS).
The LCS matrix allows individual control of each speaker channel,
facilitating dynamic distribution of live and recorded sounds
throughout the performance space. In conjunction with this, VRAS
provides a natural-sounding yet widely variable electroacoustic
reverberation.
The teXalon program will give an introduction to multichannel
matrix mixing and variable room acoustics systems, using LCS both in
support of live acoustic music and to present prerecorded music and
sound effects to theatrical effect. We will explore both
"naturalistic" uses of the system to shape concert hall
acoustics and "surrealistic" electroacoustic effects that
can become integral to future musics.
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PRESENTERS:
Richard BUGG: Introduction to Level Control Systems
Matrix3 audio mixing/processing engine and VRAS (Variable Room
Acoustics System).
Martín CARRILLO: Using LCS for composition and theatrical
sound design, featuring excerpts from his operetta
"Medea."
Richard ZVONAR: Automated matrix mixing and variable room
acoustics as performance resources.
with demonstrations and performances by Mary Lou
NEWMARK, Tom HEASLEY, jt COKER, and Richard BUGG.
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RICHARD BUGG has designed, built, and performed on
modular analog synthesizers. He has toured as a musician and as a live
sound engineer, worked as a studio musician and as an engineer, edited
and mastered albums starting with the first generation analog
multi-track tape machine, and was an early user of Sound Designer
(later known as Pro Tools). As a composer he has had commissions from
modern dance companies. His current work is for Level Control Systems
involved in the design and implementation of control surfaces for
theater sound, and in the development of the company's active acoustic
system, VRAS.
MARTÍN
CARRILLO (Sound
Designer/Composer) began his career designing for Guggenheim and
Barrymore recognized theaters in Philadelphia. Past credits plays
The Tragedy of Joan of Arc, and Cafeteria, as well as
Biloxi Blues, at historic Pasadena Playhouse. After two
Barrymore nominations, the designer moved to Los Angeles, and with
François Bergeron, he helped produce Universal Studios Port
Aventura's Templo del Fuego, and programmed LCS surround
matrices for the new Tokyo Disney Sea. He has composed four
original scores for the short films Touch, Math and You, The
Areola, and Snore, and is thrilled to be presenting the
first rumblings of today's excerpt from his Operetta for spoken
word, Medea.
RICHARD ZVONAR
is a composer and music technologist who has been involved in spatial
music, intermedia performance, and theater sound since 1969. After
several years with Good Sound Foundation, researching and developing
electroacoustic systems for musical performance, he was associated
with Level Control Systems during its formative years. Zvonar is the
founder and coordinator the acf/LA technology programs.
MARY LOU
NEWMARK is a composer, performer, poet, music teacher and
lecturer. Her compositions encompass a wide range of styles and
techniques, with a particular emphasis on electronic music. She holds
a Bachelor of Music degree from Southern Methodist University and a
Master of Music degree from the USC (both in violin performance) and a
Masters degree in composition from the UCLA. Ms. Newmark performs in
concert and gives lecture/demonstrations of her music throughout the
United States. She has received many awards including a 1999 and 2000
ASCAP Award, a Mu Phi Epsilon Grant, and recognition in the Luigi
Russolo Competition for electronic music. In 2002, Ms. Newmark
completed a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida
working with composer Steve Mackey and the Talujon Percussion Quartet,
and was commissioned by the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra to write an
electric violin concerto performed by her and the ensemble in Vermont,
March of 2003.
TOM HEASLEY
is an internationally acclaimed composer, performer, improviser and
recording artist whose compositions for electroacoustic tuba create
"a rich and sonorous aural experience that flies in the face of
all the dumb cliches about what tuba music is." Mr. Heasley's
music is available on two recent CDs - Where the Earth Meets the
Sky (Hypnos) and On the Sensations of Tone (Innova). His
music has been featured on National Public Radio, BBC Radio 3, Public
Radio International, John Schaefer's New Sounds on WNYC, and many
other radio programs. In 2002 Heasley was awarded an Artist Fellowship
in Music Composition by Arts Council Silicon Valley. His work has also
been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the American
Composers Forum and the McKnight Foundation. Mr. Heasley has
performed, recorded or otherwise collaborated with a variety of
artists, including Bobby Bradford, Eugene Chadbourne, The Berkeley
Symphony, Alvin Curran, Stuart Dempster, Charlie Haden, Pauline
Oliveros, The Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and many
others.
J T COKER is a self educated percussionist with a
primary interest in knowing the essence of playing (not working at)
music. He started on electric bass, then guitar - R n' B, Rock n'
Roll, C&W, Pop, folk, and jazz, then quit playing for a living to
live for playing - to explore music, for its own sake. Took up hand
percussionm, drum set, and shakuhachi. His primary current interest is
in playing totally free music in the duo Natural Music with electric
guitarist Ed Nunnery.
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