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[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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