[NewMusicEvents] AKIYAMA & VAN WISSEM: Performance/Lecture Feb. 11

[Steed Cowart]

The Mills College Music Department and Songlines Series present:

AKIYAMA & VAN WISSEM: Performance/Lecture

Monday, Feb. 11th
7:30 pm
Ensemble Room, Music Building

Admission: FREE

An evening of improvisational solos and duos on acoustic guitar and
baroque lute by Tetuzi Akiyama and Jozef van Wissem. Pieces include
mirror image compositions for lute and manipulated field recordings made
of various airport lounges and train stations. In between sets Mr. van
Wissem will give a brief lecture on composing and improvising new music
for lute. Tetuzi Akiyama is an experimental guitarist active in the free
improvisation and noise music scene in Japan. Besides guitar he also
plays electronics, viola, and self-made instruments. Jozef van Wissem's
work employs classical contrapuntal techniques such as retrograde motion
and palindrome forms and applies them in new ways to traditional scores,
such as reading tablature from the bottom right corner to the top left.
To these inversions he adds new themes, accents, and rhythms.

for more information contact:
John Bischoff, Music Department
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613
510-430-2331

Mills College is located off 580 freeway in Oakland. Take
the MacArthur Blvd. exit (just after High St.), turn right at
the bottom of the exit, and enter the college immediately on
your left through the College gates.

http://music.mills.edu/events
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John Bischoff, Assistant Professor
Music Department
Mills College
5000 MacArthur Blvd.
Oakland, CA 94613 USA
ph: 510-430-2331
fx: 510-430-3314
www.johnbischoff.com
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