[NewMusicEvents] Signal Flow at Mills tonight!

[chuck j]

Thanks to everyone who came out last night for opening night of Signal Flow
- the grad music festival at Mills College. Tonight's program includes
microtonal acoustic music, Supercollider, chamber folk song, automatic music
for Disklavier, and more. See below for the complete program and notes for
tonight. We hope you can join us in the newly renovated Littlefield Concert
Hall, with a reception in the Ensemble Room immediately following the
concert. More information, including programs for the entire weekend, can be
found at www.signal-flow.net
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*Friday, March 13, 8:00PM

*Pulses *        Cole D. Ingraham
Karl A.D. Evangelista, bonang pelog
Chad McKinney, electric guitar
Curtis McKinney, contrabass
Cole Ingraham, pentachord
Paul Naughton, conductor

*Galaxy 3C 279*       Chad McKinney
SuperCollider Synthesis

*Murder Ballads and Redemption Songs *   Annie Lewandowski
Jason Hoopes, bass
Annie Lewandowski, voice, guitar
Alex Vittum, percussion
*
Your Hit Parade *    Svetlana Voronina, Elizabeth Taylor,
        Log Lady, and Beulah Baker

- INTERMISSION -

*Matilde *       Alexandra Buschman
Soloists:        Sound effects:
Alexandra Buschman  Curtis McKinney, electric bass Dominique Leone
Elise Cumberland  Regina Schaffer, piano Light & visual effects:
Zach Kurth-Nelson       Severiano Martinez
Chorus:
Jason Hoopes, Bonnie Horgos, Holly Herndon, Cole Ingraham, Gretchen Jude,
Annie
Lewandowski, Lucy Moore, Caitlin Palmer, Tom Purtill, Danishta Rivero, Chris
Skebo,
Zina von Bozzay

*Studies for Automatic Piano*       Seth Horvitz
Yamaha C7 Disklavier

*Pulses* is an exploration of just intonation through the use of natural
harmonics on string
instruments.  Centered around the bonang, an Indonesian percussion
instrument from the
gamelan orchestra which is itself tuned in just intonation, the ensemble
passes through
many different harmonic and timbral colors as the piece progresses.  Each
instrument
plays a constant pulse which is either the same, two, or four times faster
or slower than the
other members creating various interlocking rhythmic layers.
The pentachord, meaning five strings, is a unique instrument designed and
built by Cole
Ingraham.  Modeled after a category of instruments simply called “long
strings,” it is
meant to be played solely by natural harmonics. Unlike most string
instruments, its five
strings are tuned very close together allowing it to produce many different
notes which are
outside of standard western tuning.

*Galaxy 3C 279  3C 279 *is a galaxy which contains an optically violent
variable quasar
(OVV).  This object was the first quasar known to exhibit apparent
superluminal motion.

*Murder Ballads and Redemption Songs*  The four songs performed in Murder
Ballads
and Redemption Songs are part of a larger cycle I've been composing over the
last four
years with shifting instrumentation.  The cycle-in-full (or the
cycle-so-far) will be
performed as part of Berkeley's Trinity Chamber Concerts Spring 2009 series
on Saturday,
March 21st (see www.trinitychamberconcerts.com for more info).  A full album
of the
songs will be completed in the spring of 2009.
Many, many thanks to Alex Vittum and Jason Hoopes for their contributions to
these
pieces.

*Matilde*  This piece was entirely written using stream of consciousness and
randomness.
There is an improvisational aspect to most written sections; either the
rhythm is fixed and
the pitches are improvised, or vice-versa.

*Studies for Automatic Piano*  The studies in this program explore aspects
of time, space,
scale, and musical perception through the systematic transformation of
simple motives.
Each piece is developed by repeating, transposing, offsetting, shortening,
and layering a
basic shape of notes according to a set of simple iterative rules.  The
fluctuating tempo of
each piece acts as a temporal "zoom lens" causing the perception of rhythm
and silence to
shrink, expand, and overlap.
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