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Tuesday, April 24
Admission: $10, $10 minimum
Showtimes: 8pm
reservations
are recommended
Marek Choloniewski (Krakow) and Richard Boulanger (Boston)
A live interactive performance
Gestural Performance, Wireless Mathews Radio Baton Performance,
WiiSound Csound Performance, WiiJitter Video Performance, P5 MidiGlove
Performance, Face Installation, and much much more.... Unusual
computing, unstable electronics, working and broken devices, new
and old circuits for clear and distorted artistic goals, unpredictable
aesthetics, dizzy kinetics, athletic skills, beautiful and joyful
pleasures and many others, not yet on this list
Featured Custom Gestural Control Systems, Interfaces,
and Artists:
WiiJitter - interactive video programmed
and performed by Matt Nolan
WiiSound - Nintendo Wiimote Csound
interface programmed and performed by Andrew Beck
P5 MidiGlove - programmed by Greg
Thompson
Radio Baton - designed, built and
programmed by Max Mathews (the father of computer
music)
Boulanger Compositions:
- The World of TrappedCraft
- Conducting with Friends at C
- In the Palm of Our Hands
Choloniewski Compositions:
- Dark & Light Zone
- Dizzy Kinetics
- Physical Modeling
- Face
Marek
Choloniewski (born 1953, in Krakow)
studied organ (with L.Werner), theory of music and composition
(with B.Schaeffer) at the Krakow Academy of Music, since 2000
the director of the Electro-acoustic Music Studio . In 1977 he
founded Muzyka Centrum Art Society, largely engaged in concert
work. Founder and co-founder of many groups: Freight Train (with
P.Bikont and K.Knittel), Studio MCH, DoubleMark (with M.Polishook),
CH&K&K (with K.Knittel and W.Kiniorski), mc2 duo (with
M.Chyrzynski), Infinity Quartett (with K.Neuringer, R.Zawel and
R.Mazur), Natural Plastic (with A.Knoles) and Kinetic Trio (with
W.Kiniorski and R.Mazur), which deals with concert and recording
activities. Since 1979 member of Cracovian Group Art Association.
Choloniewski writes instrumental and electroacoustic music for
theater, film and radio, author of sond and video installations,
audio-visual, outdoor and net projects. A world renown lecturer,
composer, sound artist and live art performer. Since 1984 he has
been giving concerts, workshops and lectures in Europe, North
and South America as well as Asia. Author, founder, artistic director,
coordinator and cooperator of many international projects: „audio
art“ series (1987), Audio Art Festival (1993), International
Workshops for New Music Cracow/Stuttgart (with M.Hermann 1993).
International Academy for New Composition and Audio Art in Tirol
(with M.Penz van Stappershoef -1993 – 1999), Silent Films
with Music Live (1994), Global Mix (1998), Art Boat (2000), GPS-Art
(2000), Ensemble Spiel (with S.Meier 2003), Bridges and European
Modern Orchestra (with K.Kwiatkowski 2003, 2005), Polish Society
for Electroacoustic Music (Polish section of CIME/ISEM 2005),
Polish Sound Art in China and Chinese Sound Art in Poland (with
Dickson Dee and Palsecam in 2006, 2007), PAFME (with B.Boretz
and D.Czerner 2006), European Course for Musical Composition and
Technologies (coordinated by IRCAM 2007). In 2006 he received
Honorable Award of the Polish Composers Union, Award of the Ministry
of Culture and National Heritage, as well as the Independent Project
grant of the CEC ArtsLink in New York.
Richard
Boulanger
Richard Boulanger was born in 1956
and holds a Ph.D. in Computer Music from the University of California
at San Diego. There he worked at the Center for Music Experiment’s
Computer Audio Research Lab. Since then, he has continued his
computer music research at Bell Labs, CCRMA, The MIT Media Lab,
Interval Research, Analog Devices, and IBM. He has collaborated,
concertized, lectured, and published extensively with Max Mathews
(Radio Baton), Barry Vercoe (Extended Csound & currently on
the $100 OLPC laptop http://laptop.org),
and John ffitch (Csound). Boulanger has premiered his original
interactive compositions at the Kennedy Center and appeared on
stage performing his Radio-Baton and MIDI PowerGlove concerto
with the Krakow and Moscow Symphonies. His music is recorded on
the NEUMA, Centaur, and Stanford labels.
Currently, Boulanger is a Professor of Music Synthesis at the
Berklee College of Music, where he has been awarded the Faculty
of the Year and President’s Awards. He has published articles
on computer music education and composition in major electronic
music and music technology magazines,
and has lectured worldwide. For the MIT Press, Boulanger has authored
and edited "The Csound Book: Perspectives in Software Synthesis,
Sound
Design, Signal Processing and Programming," and he is currently
working
on another major textbook for them entitled "Audio Programming
in C and
C++," scheduled for release in 2008.
Matt
Nolan is a musician with a holistic vision for music
and art. He
specializes in the field of music synthesis, and is very interested
in
synthesizing other phenomena such as synesthesia. Through his
studies at
Berklee College of Music, he has explored technological and classical
synthesis techniques to create art with music, and music with
art. Matt
is currently programming and performing interactive instruments
and
designing Music Synthesis Engines/Environments, Live Video, Live
and
Programmed Video re-synthesis, Installations and other Interactive
Instruments in collaboration with composers, performers and visual
artists. He has also performed as a DJ, Singer, and Guitar Player
alongside many musicians and visual artists at many venues and
music
festivals on the East Coast. Matt would like to especially thank
his
family, Dr. Richard Boulanger, Henok Assefa, and the hosts of
the
Florida Electro-acoustic Music Festival.
Andrew
Beck is currently studying at Berklee College of Music.
Andrew has worked at the Georgia Tech Research Institute Aerospace
and Acoustics Division where he studied acoustic propagation.
Following his graduation from Berklee in Spring 2007, Andrew plans
to continue his education studying Music Technology. He is primarily
interested in programming for both alternate controllers and DSP
effects. Andrew created the Wiimote controller program in order
to use the Wiimote with Csound and SuperCollider.
Programmer and Composer Greg Thompson
was born in Baton Rouge, LA in 1981. In 2004, Greg received his
Bachelor's degree from The Berklee College of Music in Boston.
At Berklee, Greg studied under and worked extensively with Dr.
Richard Boulanger. While working with Dr. Boulanger, Greg co-delivered
papers and helped Dr. Boulanger perform concerts in Canada, Eastern
Europe, Austria, and all over the U.S. Greg was both a Commissioned
Composer-in-Residence – writing acoustic music under the
supervision of the legendary Boguslaw Schaeffer; and a faculty
member – teaching Max/MSP/Jitter to the other eight commissioned
composers at The 2005 International Academy for New Music and
Audio Art: Avantegarde Tirol. In 2006, Greg received his Master's
Degree in Music and Media Technology from Brown University. Recently,
Greg has been co-authoring a chapter for Dr. Boulanger's Audio
Programming Book for MIT Press and developing custom multimedia
software for artists such as Christopher Janney and BT.
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