From: Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [microsound] SCREAM Festival?
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 14:17:14 -0800
At 1:26 PM -0800 12/2/03, D. Jean Hester wrote:
Anyone go to the SCREAM Festival last night, at Redcat?
I thought the loudspeakers were mounted too high.
I also thought the price of admission was high.
I liked Tom Flaherty's piece the best - just him, his cello, and his
PowerBook. Mostly live sampling and processing of the cello sounds (with a
few sounds pre-sampled) using Max/MSP.
Carl Stone's was his usual adroit interweaving of sampled materials. Good
sonic imagination and handling of the performance system (again, Max/MSP),
but I personally prefer some of his earlier work where the sources were
more readily identifiable.
I won't comment on the rest, except to say that I thought all the pieces
were well made and well executed but that some of them had a sound palette
that seemed a bit dated.
Most pieces went well enough, though the trombone piece had to be
reconceived on the spot due to a flakey pitch to MIDI interface and Mark
Trayle had a minor restart due to a bad audio connection.
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