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acf/LA teXalon June 22 - VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC SPACES



Title: acf/LA teXalon June 22 - VIRTUAL ACOUSTIC SPACES
American Composers Forum of Los Angeles presents:
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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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