Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble in residence, Sonic Generator, presents their first concert of the season:
Monday, November 12th at 8 p.m.
Georgia Tech Alumni House
190 North Avenue
http://www.sonicgenerator.gatech.eduAdmission is free and no reservations are required.
The concert features The New Math(s) (1999), a collaboration between filmmaker Hal Hartley, Dutch minimalist composer Louis Andriessen, and electronic sound artist Michel van der Aa, in which the live performers and an electronic soundtrack underscore an acrobatic battle over the solution to a complex mathematical problem in an urban warehouse-turned-classroom.
Other works exploring the music of urban places include an arrangement of Brian Eno?s Music for Airports (1978), which launched the ambient music genre, Donnacha Dennehy?s post-minimalist Glamour Sleeper (2004) for amplified ensemble and electronics, and Jacob ter Veldhuis? energetic Grab It! for saxophone and boombox.
The program also focuses on places important in non-Western musical traditions. Javier Alvarez?s Temazcal (1984) combines the sound of live maracas with processed sounds of the harp, folk guitar, and bamboo rods reminiscent of the Venezuelan flatlands. Emory professor Steve Everett?s Ladrang Kampung (2003) blends the sounds of a flutist with live and processed sounds of the gamelan, drawing inspiration from Indonesian shadow plays.
Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble in residence, explores the ways in which technology can transform how we create, perform, and listen to music. The ensemble, comprised of six of the top classical musicians in Atlanta, works closely with Georgia Tech faculty and students in the GVU Center and the Music Department to present concerts that bring cutting-edge technologies to the world of contemporary classical music.
Sonic Generator is sponsored by the GVU Center, which seeks to advance the state of the art of the interaction between people, computing machines, and information. The concert series is organized by the Music Department in the College of Architecture, which pushes the boundaries of musical expression and creativity through technology.
For more information about Sonic Generator and this concert (including directions), please visit:
http://www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu
We hope to see you there!
On a personal note: I’ve seen them twice now and its quite the interesting performance. My former music professor heads up the ensemble and I’ve been following it for quite some time. If you’re in the Atlanta area then I highly recommend you check it out.
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