Re: [microsound] SCREAM Festival?

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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