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Event
17th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Concert #4
The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event dedicated to promoting experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems. Each year, MFP&T invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the goal of reaching a large, diverse audience of all ages. Past participants include Carla Kihlstedt, Walter Kitundu, Peter Whitehead, Brenda Hutchinson, William Winant, Laetitia Sonami, and many others. Celebrating its 17th year in 2014, MFP&T is a celebration of new and unusual explorations in music and performance, featuring afternoon and evening concerts and hands-on workshops.
Today's performance features:
Shanna Sordahl (composer, cello, electronics) with Robert Lopez (percussion)
Utilizing extended electronic setup for cello and a handmade tuned bar instrument, this piece brings together the unique voices of these instruments to create a unified whole based upon the sonic characteristics of the cello. The tonal focus of the piece emphasizes beating patterns between notes on the cello strings, and harmonics in general, including those that "hide" on adjacent strings when particular notes are bowed. The electronics both exaggerate and subvert the harmonics of the cello. For example, at times they draw out the high ringing frequencies and at other moments subtract or introduce new frequencies resultant of filtering and modulation. The bar instrument, which I made two years ago and is tuned around the lowest A of the cello, contributes its own rich harmonic characteristics and timbral properties that intermingle with those of the cello and electronics to create a homogenous bed of sound.
www,shannasordahl.net
https://soundcloud.com/shanna-sordahl
Thomas Gerwin
Thomas Gerwin plays and explores objects found in daily life like they are or with small modifications. Together with electronics he creates a peculiar sound universe between Musique concrète, Soundscape, Electroacoustic and Radio Art.
www.thomasgerwin.de
hackMIDI by Tom Djll
hackMIDIis an attempt to embrace the contradictory nature of circuit-bent instruments: they are unpredictable, yet the performer can limit the unpredictability in various ways. Within that dynamic there occur events that are defined by a range of parameters further limited yet still not 100% predictable; thus, these events are partially under the performer's control and partially under the control of the instrument's complex (and violated) circuitry. "Chaos" in this sense is just a higher order of Order (to paraphrase Schoenberg's observation that dissonance constitutes a higher order of consonance). Using this quasi-chaotic output to send control data to an instrument over which there is no available sound-altering capability the Yamaha Digital Piano adds a further layer of discourse to this unstable subject.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3EBD279EB3DF6E23
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LocationTemescal Art Center (View)
511 - 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
United States
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| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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