The Department of Music and CREATE present

VISIBLE SOUND

Thursday, 15 November 2001 at 8 PM
Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Free admission.

The Department of Music and the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) presents a concert of visible sound. The concert will feature the American premiere of UCSB faculty member Curtis Roads's music video Sculptor (in collaboration with multimedia artist Brian O'Reilly). Also featured will be the music video Half-life, with music by Roads imagery realized in collaboration with multimedia artist Woon Seung Yeo. Gary Nelson, Director of the TIMARA center at the Oberlin Conservatory, will be featured in a new video with music by the composer, as will the Italian media artist Adriano Abbado. O'er the Sea, a work based on harpsichord sounds commissioned by CREATE, will be spatialised by the Topanga Canyon-based composer Brigitte Robindoré, who worked for several years at the CCMIX studio in Paris. Also featured will be works for percussion and electronics by Swiss composers Philippe Kocher and Gary Berger, with Christoph Brunner and Gary Berger performing on percussion and electronics. The program will conclude with the Paris-based composer Horacio Vaggione's dramatic new electronic work Preludes Suspendues.

The music will be performed using the Creatophone spatialiser, a multichannel sound projection system developed at CREATE. It consists of an orchestra of loudspeakers under the regime of a composer operating a sound mixing console. These loudspeakers are distributed in various positions around the concert stage and around the audience. Using the Creatophone, each "scene" in a composition can be enhanced by a unique spatial image. Movement within a composition (in pitch, rhythm, loudness, or timbre) can be enhanced by spatial animation.