Improv@CIRMMT
Salle Tanna Schulich Hall
20h00-21h00
May 24 mai, 2022
Program | Programme :
Furnas
Furnas
Nicola Di Croce (composer)
“Furnas” is part of a collection of field recordings dealing with the concept of affective atmosphere and human/listener positioning within the environment. The series was first conceived in 2020 during an on-line residency at NUB, in the framework of the residency program Licheni (online platform and virtual research laboratory for sound and art). The composition is realized using recordings taken in the Azores in 2017 and further re-edited in 2021.
Bio : Architect, musician, sound artist, and scholar, he completed his PhD in Regional planning and public policies at Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy, and is currently Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Iuav and McGill University’s School of Information Studies, Montreal. His research deals with the relationship between Urban Studies and Sound Studies. He is interested in collaborative and participatory approaches to urban policy analysis and design through sound-oriented methodologies and Sound Art practice.
www.nicoladicroce.com
“Furnas” is part of a collection of field recordings dealing with the concept of affective atmosphere and human/listener positioning within the environment. The series was first conceived in 2020 during an on-line residency at NUB, in the framework of the residency program Licheni (online platform and virtual research laboratory for sound and art). The composition is realized using recordings taken in the Azores in 2017 and further re-edited in 2021.
Bio : Architect, musician, sound artist, and scholar, he completed his PhD in Regional planning and public policies at Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy, and is currently Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Iuav and McGill University’s School of Information Studies, Montreal. His research deals with the relationship between Urban Studies and Sound Studies. He is interested in collaborative and participatory approaches to urban policy analysis and design through sound-oriented methodologies and Sound Art practice.
www.nicoladicroce.com
8m
Premise for an Instrumental Interaction
Premise for an Instrumental Interaction
Benjamin Lavastre (composer & performer)
Premises for an Instrumental Interaction is a piece for karlax, a kind of digital "vase" to be filled with sounds and gestures. In the end, the piece is a phantasmal instrumental interaction, like a ventriloquism.
Benjamin Lavastre is a composer, researcher and guitarist. He is currently working on a PhD at McGill University on the interactions between digital instruments (especially the Karlax) and acoustic instruments.
Premises for an Instrumental Interaction is a piece for karlax, a kind of digital "vase" to be filled with sounds and gestures. In the end, the piece is a phantasmal instrumental interaction, like a ventriloquism.
Benjamin Lavastre is a composer, researcher and guitarist. He is currently working on a PhD at McGill University on the interactions between digital instruments (especially the Karlax) and acoustic instruments.
8m
The Text Score Dataset 1.0
The Text Score Dataset 1.0
Jennifer Walshe (composer/collector)
Performers :
Yuval Adler (https://adler.audio/)
Émilie Fortin (https://emilie-fortin.tumblr.com/)
Pat McMaster (https://www.patmcmaster.com/)
Valentina Plata (https://soundcloud.com/vaiu-sounds)
Lily Koslow (https://soundcloud.com/lilykoslow)
Ashar Mumtaz
Kai Kubota-Enright (https://kubotaenright.com)
We will perform a small selection from The Text Score Dataset 1.0, which are scores generated by artificial intelligence. The group behind the project is led by Jennifer Walshe, who describes her role as collector rather than composer, with more than 3,000 works in the database used to train the AI models. For more about the project: http://milker.org/text-score-dataset
Composer and performer Jennifer Walshe (http://milker.org/jenniferwalshebiography) was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast, and performed all over the world. She is currently a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart.
Program Notes
Performers :
Yuval Adler (https://adler.audio/)
Émilie Fortin (https://emilie-fortin.tumblr.com/)
Pat McMaster (https://www.patmcmaster.com/)
Valentina Plata (https://soundcloud.com/vaiu-sounds)
Lily Koslow (https://soundcloud.com/lilykoslow)
Ashar Mumtaz
Kai Kubota-Enright (https://kubotaenright.com)
We will perform a small selection from The Text Score Dataset 1.0, which are scores generated by artificial intelligence. The group behind the project is led by Jennifer Walshe, who describes her role as collector rather than composer, with more than 3,000 works in the database used to train the AI models. For more about the project: http://milker.org/text-score-dataset
Composer and performer Jennifer Walshe (http://milker.org/jenniferwalshebiography) was born in Dublin, Ireland. Her music has been commissioned, broadcast, and performed all over the world. She is currently a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst, Stuttgart.
Program Notes
1-12m (variable)
BtFrq – Improv for Feedback Saxophone
BtFrq – Improv for Feedback Saxophone
Greg Bruce (composer & performer)
In this improvisation, Greg explores the phenomenon of beat frequencies through his feedback saxophone system. In playing with subtle shifts in positioning, finger movement, and dynamics, the saxophone and feedback tones weave between tension and release.
Greg Bruce is a saxophonist searching for new sounds through the forgotten opportunities of analogue technology. Through a breath-powered instrumentarium – a saxophone augmented by state of the art, lo-tech – Greg seeks to investigate the human/machine dialectic and invoke a post-digital future.
In this improvisation, Greg explores the phenomenon of beat frequencies through his feedback saxophone system. In playing with subtle shifts in positioning, finger movement, and dynamics, the saxophone and feedback tones weave between tension and release.
Greg Bruce is a saxophonist searching for new sounds through the forgotten opportunities of analogue technology. Through a breath-powered instrumentarium – a saxophone augmented by state of the art, lo-tech – Greg seeks to investigate the human/machine dialectic and invoke a post-digital future.
5m
Collectif Myriade
Collectif Myriade
Kevin Gironnay (composer)
Performers :
Mélanie Cullin, piano
Ivan Bamford, drums
Julie Houle, tuba
Kevin Gironnay, prepared electric guitar
André Parmentier, electric guitar
This improvisation is the result of a period of research in a musical exploration laboratory, last fall, during which, the musician-improvisers performed improvisations for two non-practicing music lovers around the theme of isolation. The objectives of these laboratories, propelled by the Myriade collective, were the search for a new connection between the performers and their audience as well as the development of a common creative vocabulary, at the frontiers of soundpainting and graphic score.
Collectif Myriade was created in 2015 to foster spontaneous interdisciplinary exchanges between music and different art forms. The collective bases its research and work on collaborations with artists of all backgrounds taking the form of laboratories where, in a shared freedom, we explore and develop a common language.
Performers :
Mélanie Cullin, piano
Ivan Bamford, drums
Julie Houle, tuba
Kevin Gironnay, prepared electric guitar
André Parmentier, electric guitar
This improvisation is the result of a period of research in a musical exploration laboratory, last fall, during which, the musician-improvisers performed improvisations for two non-practicing music lovers around the theme of isolation. The objectives of these laboratories, propelled by the Myriade collective, were the search for a new connection between the performers and their audience as well as the development of a common creative vocabulary, at the frontiers of soundpainting and graphic score.
Collectif Myriade was created in 2015 to foster spontaneous interdisciplinary exchanges between music and different art forms. The collective bases its research and work on collaborations with artists of all backgrounds taking the form of laboratories where, in a shared freedom, we explore and develop a common language.
10m