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PLACE:	Boston Court Theatre
	70 North Mentor Avenue
	Pasadena, CA 90021

	(626) 683-6883

http://bostoncourttheatre.com/

DONATION:	$5.00

DIRECTIONS:	210 Freeway to Lake exit
		N. Lake Ave south past E. Union St.
		Left on Boston Court, 1 block to N. Mentor
		Parking behind theater

http://bostoncourttheatre.com/165033.html

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THE TECHNOLOGY, THE VENUE, THE PROGRAM

Recent developments in concert hall electroacoustics and digital 
matrix mixing offer exciting new options for performance of live 
music. Level Control Systems is among the leading developers of such 
tools, and the installation of an LCS-based multichannel sound system 
in the newly-opened Theatre at Boston Court in Pasadena provides a 
chance to explore some of the musical possibilities of these new 
technologies.

<http://bostoncourttheatre.com/>Boston Court Theatre is an intimate, 
state-of-the-art performing arts complex with a 99-seat theater and 
60-seat performance space. It is equipped with a 20-speaker surround 
sound system with a <http://www.LCSaudio.com>Level Control Systems 
digital matrix mixer, and featuring the LCS Variable Room Acoustics 
System (<http://lcsaudio.com/Products/VRAS.html>VRAS). The LCS matrix 
allows individual control of each speaker channel, facilitating 
dynamic distribution of live and recorded sounds throughout the 
performance space. In conjunction with this, VRAS provides a 
natural-sounding yet widely variable electroacoustic reverberation.

The teXalon program will give an introduction to multichannel matrix 
mixing and variable room acoustics systems, using LCS both in support 
of live acoustic music and to present prerecorded music and sound 
effects to theatrical effect. We will explore both "naturalistic" 
uses of the system to shape concert hall acoustics and "surrealistic" 
electroacoustic effects that can become integral to future musics.

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PRESENTERS:

Richard BUGG: Introduction to  Level Control Systems Matrix3 audio 
mixing/processing engine and VRAS (Variable Room Acoustics System).

Mart=EDn CARRILLO: Using LCS for composition and theatrical sound 
design, featuring excerpts from his operetta "Medea."

Richard ZVONAR: Automated matrix mixing and variable room acoustics 
as  performance resources.

with demonstrations and performances by Mary Lou NEWMARK, Tom 
HEASLEY, jt COKER, and Richard BUGG.

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RICHARD BUGG has designed, built, and performed on modular analog 
synthesizers. He has toured as a musician and as a live sound 
engineer, worked as a studio musician and as an engineer, edited and 
mastered albums starting with the first generation analog multi-track 
tape machine, and was an early user of Sound Designer (later known as 
Pro Tools). As a composer he has had commissions from modern dance 
companies. His current work is for Level Control Systems involved in 
the design and implementation of control surfaces for theater sound, 
and in the development of the company's active acoustic system, VRAS.

<http://www.heardrum.org/mysteryframe.htm>MART=CDN CARRILLO (Sound 
Designer/Composer) began his career designing for Guggenheim and 
Barrymore recognized theaters in Philadelphia. Past credits plays The 
Tragedy of Joan of Arc, and Cafeteria, as well as Biloxi Blues, at 
historic Pasadena Playhouse. After two Barrymore nominations, the 
designer moved to Los Angeles, and with Fran=E7ois Bergeron, he helped 
produce Universal Studios Port Aventura's Templo del Fuego, and 
programmed LCS surround matrices for the new Tokyo Disney Sea.  He 
has composed four original scores for the short films Touch, Math and 
You, The Areola, and Snore, and is thrilled to be presenting the 
first rumblings of today's excerpt from his Operetta for spoken word, 
Medea.

<http://www.zvonar.com/>RICHARD ZVONAR is a composer and music 
technologist who has been involved in spatial music, intermedia 
performance, and theater sound since 1969. After several years with 
Good Sound Foundation, researching and developing electroacoustic 
systems for musical performance, he was associated with Level Control 
Systems during its formative years. Zvonar is the founder and 
coordinator the acf/LA technology programs.

<http://www.greenangelmusic.com/>MARY LOU NEWMARK is a composer, 
performer, poet, music teacher and lecturer. Her compositions 
encompass a wide range of styles and techniques, with a particular 
emphasis on electronic music. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree 
from Southern Methodist University and a Master of Music degree from 
the USC (both in violin performance) and a Masters degree in 
composition from the UCLA. Ms. Newmark performs in concert and gives 
lecture/demonstrations of her music throughout the United States. She 
has received many awards including a 1999 and 2000 ASCAP Award, a Mu 
Phi Epsilon Grant, and recognition in the Luigi Russolo Competition 
for electronic music. In 2002, Ms. Newmark completed a residency at 
the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida working with composer 
Steve Mackey and the Talujon Percussion Quartet, and was commissioned 
by the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra to write an electric violin 
concerto performed by her and the ensemble in Vermont, March of 2003.

<http://www.tomheasley.com/>TOM HEASLEY is an internationally 
acclaimed composer, performer, improviser and recording artist whose 
compositions for electroacoustic tuba create "a rich and sonorous 
aural experience that flies in the face of all the dumb cliches about 
what tuba music is." Mr. Heasley's music is available on two recent 
CDs - Where the Earth Meets the Sky (Hypnos) and On the Sensations of 
Tone (Innova). His music has been featured on National Public Radio, 
BBC Radio 3, Public Radio International, John Schaefer's New Sounds 
on WNYC, and many other radio programs. In 2002 Heasley was awarded 
an Artist Fellowship in Music Composition by Arts Council Silicon 
Valley. His work has also been supported by the National Endowment 
for the Arts, the American Composers Forum and the McKnight 
=46oundation.  Mr. Heasley has performed, recorded or otherwise 
collaborated with a variety of artists, including Bobby Bradford, 
Eugene Chadbourne, The Berkeley Symphony, Alvin Curran, Stuart 
Dempster, Charlie Haden, Pauline Oliveros, The Merce Cunningham Dance 
Company, and many others.

J T COKER is a self educated percussionist with a primary interest in 
knowing the essence of playing (not working at) music. He started on 
electric bass, then guitar - R n' B, Rock n' Roll, C&W, Pop, folk, 
and jazz, then quit playing for a living to live for playing - to 
explore music, for its own sake. Took up hand percussionm, drum set, 
and shakuhachi. His primary current interest is in playing totally 
free music in the duo Natural Music with electric guitarist Ed 
Nunnery.

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