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Tuesday, June 7, 8pm
Frederick Loewe Theater, 35 West 4th Street
New York City

NYU faculty and friends come together to join in Hip Chips, EMF's worldwide laptop festival. Produced by Langdon Crawford, the program includes:

Dinu Ghezzo

EYES OF CASSANDRA

Performed with Thomas Beyer, Dinu Ghezzo's Eyes of Cassandra was originally conceived during a live Web interactive session held in December, 1996, in an experiment reviving in contemporary terms the image of Cassandra, daughter of Priam, king of Troy, cursed by Zeus to predict the future of mankind, but not to be believed by anyone. This session produced ca. thirty short audio clips, which were used as the backbone of the new composition, tracing the footsteps of Cassandra through some imaginary scenario. The composer overlaps the digital samples over newer electronic files, with a various number of stage players (from one to three performers) to create a continuous flow of a loose arch composition structure.

Robert Rowe

FLUTTER

Performed by Katie Brisotti, flutist, Flutter is a piece for flute solo and an ensemble of recorded and modified sounds. The accompanying ensemble sounds evolved out of everything from recordings of the flute itself to blowtorch samples, and include both prefabricated sound files and live processing of the soloist's performance. The title comes from a light and mobile quality I hear in the flute part, as well as a thinly disguised reference to the name of the instrument. Flutter is dedicated to Jacqueline Martelle, who premiered the piece.

Langdon C. Crawford

FLY BY WIRE 1.1

This piece is my first revision of a computer music performance systems using the Theremin as the control device. I have been fascinated with the sounds of computer music for years, but have been frustrated by the gestural constraints of the mouse and ascii keyboard for live performance. I often feel like I'm on stage checking my email while all these wild sounds are coming a CD player. Working with the Theremin has helped bridge the gap between what I am physically and visually doing on stage and the sounds that result from that activity. My software toolkit of choice is Max/MSP with csound~ providing its lovely sounding library of elegant synthesis routines.

Richard Lainhart and Benjamin Chadabe

IMPROVISATION

Percussionist Benjamin Chadabe improvises with Richard Lainhart's electronics in an exploration of interaction and sound.

Richard Lainhart

ONE WORD

One Word is my first performance piece for the Kyma System, and uses external MIDI faders to control the harmonics of a just-tuned chord generated by the Kyma in realtime. The Kyma's output is furthered modified by DSP processes running on the PowerBook.

Steven M. Miller

RIVER CROSSINGS

River Crossings is a work in progress for live processing and manipulation of sound recordings which I have made over the past 5 years along the Pecos River in New Mexico. The river soundscape is complex, varied, and multifaceted, as are the uses (and abuses) of the river itself. From wilderness to agricultural, rural to urban, desolate to overcrowded, the settings through which it flows comprise a multivalent cultural and natural geography. The timbres and textures of the recordings themselves are a rich source of musical material, and also serve in this piece as raw data for controlling and shaping the characteristics of the sound processing routines used to transform them. My intent is not to romanticize or exploit, but to make audible the river's richness and diversity; to problematize notions of easy answers and simplified viewpoints; and to render a sonic experience of the river that recontextualizes what is seemingly familiar.

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