Electromuse One At COCA
Northwest CyberArtists productions presented an evening of oscillating electrons. Seven experimental electronic music pieces, featuring a diverse array of Northwest musicians performed live at the COCA gallery in Seattle, November 14th.
Couldn't make it to the event? Check out artist Einar Ask's VRML rendering of the COCA Space gallery, complete with three floating theremins that defy gravity, visit: the VRML 2.0 compatible version or the VRML 1.0 compatible browser version.
Thereminists
Jason Barile, Mike Firis, and Lorie Merlino delighted the audience with experimental and classic tunes on the world's only musical instrument that is played without being touched. Pieces performed included "Glissandi" by Jorge Campos, an abstract piece for three theremins illustrating the relationship between a theremin and the performer, and the popular favorite "Sleepwalk." Listen to "Amazing Grace", in RealAudio performed by thereminist Jason Barile.
Allan Loucks performed Wasserspieler Electronic and Oceans. Wasserspieler Electronic is part of the Wasserspieler Suite, which was originally composed and performed for interaction with a midi-controlled water fountain. Oceans was composed by David Loucks, originally for full symphony orchestra, as a musical score to accompany ocean scenes. Both works are featured on Tin Ear's 2nd CD "Name That Mood". Listen to this sample from Tin Ear's " Wasserspieler Electronic", in RealAudio.
*Tin Ear Copyright:
"Oceans" composed by David Loucks. "Wasserspieler Electronic" composed by Allan Loucks. Both works performed by Tin Ear on the CD "Name That Mood", (c) and (p) 1997 by ADGL Productions, Inc. (BMI). "Tin Ear" is a registered trademark.
Steve Turnidge and Einar Ask
Intonarumori
Intonarumori - Layer Parallelism
Strange Attractor #5
Mark Taylor-Canfield
Christopher DeLaurenti
Steve and Einar performed an Internet MIDI jam with other musicians from
around the world using ResRocket Surfer's DRGN (Distributed Real-Time Groove
Network) technology. The musicians included people who have never met in
person, living on different continents, and influenced by different styles of music.
Listen to this sample from Einar Ask, Steve Turnidge and the ResRocket Surfers "Jam#1", in RealAudio.
The music of Intonarumori is based on composed, found and environmental
sounds. Randomness and chance are often utilized. The Rocket (Seattle) said
of Intonarumori's Sound Collages Cassette (1995), "Disturbing is the word
that springs to mind when listening to Intonarumori. It'll drive out
relatives who outstay their welcome." Listen to this sample from "Intonarumori's Layer Parallelism ", in RealAudio.
Copyright 1996 - Unit Circle Rekkids
Published by Unit Circle Music, 1996
John Beezer discovered his technique for creating audio fractals while
experimenting with ways to synthetically generate the tones found in guitar
feedback. While the resulting sounds are created through simple mathematical
processes, massive dynamic iterations give them an organic tonality
characterized by aural strange attractors and sensitive dependence on
initial conditions. Listen to this sample from John Beezer's "Strange Attractor #5", in RealAudio.
Mark has composed for dance, theater and film. His work has been presented
at international electro-acoustique festivals in Europe and by the
Washington Composers Forum here in the U.S. He's also a member of the
experimental music group Lucid, which has gained an international reputation
for exploring soundscapes. Mark's approach is termed "musique
concrete"--combining unique editing of natural sounds and composed music to
create surreal cinematic soundscapes. Listen to this sample from Mark Taylor Canfield's "3rd Dream from the Center of the Left Eye", in RealAudio.
Christopher DeLaurenti is a Seattle-based composer in the tradition of
Beethoven, Stravinsky, Ellington and Xenakis. For information, sound clips,
squibs and pilfered images of Rosicrucians, visit his home page.
Listen to this sample in RealAudio.
Production Team
Producers:
Technical Director:
Business Manager:
Graphic Design Brochure, Poster, CD-ROM:
Electromuse Logo Design & Web Design:
Special thanks to our sponsors:
Burt Webb, Barbara Whitt
Christopher DeLaurenti
Larry Berg
Glenn Fajardo
Marla Katz
Northwest CyberArtists Productions
Center on Contemporary Art - COCA
For further information on NWCA's Electromuse please email: Christopher DeLaurenti
