Re: [microsound] SUNDAY!! Trevor Wishart at CalArts

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I saw him in Berlin in 1998 - excellent!
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  From: Richard Zvonar 
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  Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 2:21 AM
  Subject: [microsound] SUNDAY!! Trevor Wishart at CalArts


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  The making of IMAGO
  and
  Demonstration of SOUND LOOM software
  by Trevor WISHART
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  In conjunction with his January 31st performance at REDCAT (as part 
  of the CalArts CEAIT Festival) English composer TREVOR WISHART will 
  discuss the making of his electroacoustic piece IMAGO.

  Organized by American Composers Forum Technology Program


  California Institute of the Arts
  24700 McBean Parkway
  Valencia, CA 90291

  Room A116 - two floors below main entrance (follow the signs)

  Sunday, FEBRUARY 01, 2004, 3:00-5:00 PM

  $10 admission*

  *no charge for CalArts community

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  IMAGO, 16-channel, live diffused playback of piece that explores 
  sound metamorphosis in which the single clink of two wine-glasses is 
  used to generate a whole world of other sounds, from instruments to 
  suggestions of birdsong, a strange gamelan, the sea and the human 
  voice itself.

  Trevor Wishart (b. 1946) (www.trevorwishart.co.uk) is an independent 
  composer living and working in the North of England. He is currently 
  an Honorary Professor at the University of York. Committed to new 
  approaches to music making, he has developed many new instruments (as 
  signal processing software) for musical composition, is a founder 
  member of the "Composer's Desktop Project", a composers' cooperative, 
  and author of On Sonic Art and Audible Design.


  For information on TREVOR WISHART and his work, see:

  http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk

  For information on (and the latest download of) the SOUND LOOM software, see:

  http://www.trevorwishart.co.uk/slfull.html


  For information on CEAIT Festival and REDCAT, see:

  http://redcatweb.org/season/music/ceait.html


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  TREVOR WISHART (b.1946) is an independent composer living and working 
  in the North of England. He has held residencies or visiting 
  professorships in Australia, Canada, Holland, Sweden, and the USA and 
  at the Universities of Cambridge, Birmingham, Nottingham and Leeds in 
  the UK. He is currently an Honorary Professor at the University of 
  York.

  His most well-known works include Red Bird (1977), awarded a Euphonie 
  d'Or at the 1992 Bourges Festival, the Vox cycle (1980-88) first 
  heard in full at the 1989 Proms, and Tongues Of Fire, winner of the 
  Golden Nica for computer music at the Linz Ars Electronica Festival, 
  1995. His work has been commissioned by IRCAM, the Paris Biennale, 
  the Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, the DAAD in 
  Berlin, the French Ministry of Culture and the BBC Proms.

  Committed to new approaches to music making, he has developed many 
  new instruments (as signal processing software) for musical 
  composition, is a founder member of the "Composer's Desktop 
  Project", a composers cooperative, and author of On Sonic Art and 
  Audible Design.

  In  addition  he  is  well  known  for his pioneering work in taking 
  music out of conventional venues into public open spaces, youth 
  clubs, schools and other community venues, and developing workshop 
  techniques to encourage others to develop their creative potential. 
  The  Sounds Fun books of musical games have subsequently been 
  republished in Japanese. In the year 2000, Birthrite, a Fleeting 
  Opera (with Max Couper and Tom Sapsford) was presented on moving 
  barges on the Thames with performers from the Royal Opera House and 
  Royal Ballet.  He was also the sound designer for the Jorvik Viking 
  Centre (York), the first multimedia museum installation in the UK.



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