Event
May 7-9, 2009 City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival
The 2nd Annual City Skies 09 Electronic Music Festival will be held in the Atlanta area on May 7-9, 2009. The list of performers include musicians from around the U.S. heard on Music From the Hearts of Space, Echoes, Star's End, Soma FM, StillStream, Galactic Travels, and more.
Musical styles range from ambient to downtempo chillout to Berlin school to IDM to space rock to experimental.
The performers are from Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
The venue is Kavarna in the Oakhurst section of Decatur, GA.
Performers for the three-day event are:
7-May-09 7p citizenGreen, 8p-9:45p Different Skies All-stars (Kevin Haller, Tony Gerber, Paul Vnuk, Jr, Klimchak, Jim Combs, Bill Fox, Howard Moscovitz, Jeannie Allen), 10p Broken Symmetry, 11p Masik
8-May-09 7p Earthgirl, 8p Kathy Raimey, 9p Tony Gerber & John Rose, 10p Xeriod Entity (Howard Moscovitz and Bill Fox), 11p Paul Vnuk & Klimchak
9-May-09 12Noon Andrew Weathers, 1p Don Hassler & Jason Butcher, 2p Anonymi & Elbo Jones, 3-5p Richard Lainhart workshop- Multi-Dimensional Control for Realtime Analog Synthesis Performance (details below)
9-May-09 7p Mark Mahoney, 8p Duet for Theremin & Lap Steel, 9p Richard Lainhart, 10p Kevin Spears & Shane Morris, 11p Richard Devine & Joshua Kay
Details for Richard Lainhart workshop on Saturday afternoon May 9, 2009:
Multi-Dimensional Control for Realtime Analog Synthesis Performance
The promise of electronic music has been, from the beginning, to provide the composer with the means to create his or her own unique sounds and musics without the need for intermediaries like performers and technicians. And the problem with electronic music has been, from the beginning, to endow synthesized sound with the same organic expressivity found in acoustic instruments and natural sound while making synthesizers viable performance instruments in their own right.
The first electronic instruments intended for performance, such as the Theremin and the Ondes Martenot, while providing the performer with highly nuanced pitch control, had limited sound-shaping control and could only play one note at a time. The first modular analog synthesizers, while offering polyphony - the ability to play multiple notes simultaneously - and unlimited sonic control, had limited expressive performance control and were completely impractical for live use.
There have been many attempts since then to integrate the unlimited potential of modular analog synthesis with practical performance capabilities, and to provide the electronic music composer/performer with the kind of expressive musical control available in advanced acoustic instruments. Among of the most successful and creative of these efforts are the Buchla 200e analog modular synthesizer and the Haken Continuum Fingerboard.
Buchla's 200e is the first modular analog synth with patch memory and the ability to re-route patchcords on the fly, making it an ideal instrument for performance, capable of both the highest and lowest levels of control. The Continuum is a unique multidimensional controller keyboard that senses direct finger movement in three dimensions (X, Y, and pressure) for each of up to 16 fingers, making it one of the most advanced performance controllers available today. Together, the 200e and the Continuum make for an electronic music performance system of unparalleled expressivity and sensitivity.
In his workshop, Richard will demonstrate the synthesis and control functions of the Buchla 200e with an emphasis on patch programming for maximum expressivity under Continuum control. The workshop will include a live performance focusing on the Continuum/Buchla 200e system's expressive control capabilities. Time permitting, workshop attendees will also have the opportunity to play the system themselves.
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LocationKavarna
707 East Lake Drive
Decatur, GA 30030
United States
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