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Touch(ed)/Proprio
While Bliss Kohlmyer explores the outward manifestations of human touch, the music goes inward, into the proprioception of the dancers. Using a custom built "StethRecorder", the sounds of the internal movements of the dancers were sampled for further computer manipualtion in the studio. The result is a sub-sonic experience in sound that places the audience within the sounds of the insides of the dancers. 900 watts of low frequency energy cretes a sense-surround experience during the dance.
Meany Studio Theater
May 19-22, 2011
Tickets are $14, $12 for UWAA members, faculty and staff, and $10 for students.Ê Tickets are available online or at the UW Arts Ticket Office, 3901 University Way NE, Seattle 206-543-4880.
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An Evening of Surround Sound Music - UW DXARTS/Music Students
Kolme and Theonity
Kolme -
The lines and textures of our our cityscapes, technological devices, and visual communication forms have a distinct appeal when compared to those of the human body, earthly terrain, or weather phenomena. Using sound as a palette, elements of design derived from each general source are strewn across a sonic landscape with varying degrees of separation. In its starkest form, sounds derived from the complexity of muscle movement are juxtaposed against examples from the human "mechanosphere". Tied to these two sources is a constant referral to the numerical pattern of 13 used to construct materials. These three (Kolme) elements converge to create the work.
Theonity -
Ideas of institutionalized human "faith", some resultant real world actions, betrayal, and its constant drama are the sources for "Theonity". Sounds obtained directly (some considered scandalous by existing political forces) and indirectly, through inferred situations, are digitally deconstructed and juxtaposed. The potential beauty, the ugly, and the nature of what it is for humans to connect to spirituality in the world inspire the resultant progression.
The Chapel Performance Space, The Good Shepherd Centre, 4649 Sunnyside Avenue North, Seattle, WA
website
Thu April 2nd, 2009, 8:00pm
admission $5.00
Original Score - Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
"UW Director Richard E.T. White chose the New Orleans concept to emphasize the play's themes of deceit and mistaken identity, using props like Mardi Gras masks to mirror the characters' deceptive actions", Niemela said in a recent interview. White also wanted Niemela's music to become part of the drama. Actors pace across the stage, practicing songs and juggling acts, but the musicians are just as much a part of the show in this production.
Shakespeare's Twelfth Night
October 26 - November 9, 2008 7:30 PM
Meany Hall Experimental Theater
University of Washington School of Drama
206-543-4880
Retro
Viola and Live Computer
A short and fun jaunt for solo viola. During a recent critique of another piece, It was suggested that I delete a section, as it was too "Retro" for presentation. Unable to resist, I pulled the section out into its own piece, and wrote the piece further into it's retro sounding world, to perhaps pay homage to those early 1970's rock bands that 'wowed' us with their newfangled synthesizers. This is that time, with computers, on a bit of steriods.
Composer's Workshop
Friday, December 5, 2008 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
admission $5.00
206.543.6450
Little Bull
for Viola and Live Computer Electronics
Little Hill Song
Using a phrase of bluegrass fiddle, this short passage electronically dissects the sound's spectrum, and combines it with subtle infusions of FM synthesis. The results brings together old and new worlds.
Tod Dockstader
Piece #4, from Eight Electronic pieces (1961)
These mid-century pieces represent strong North American works in electro-acoustic music. Born in 1932 in St. Paul, Minn, TodDockstader, a cartoonist/animator by trade, initially worked for UPA and TerryToons film production houses. The former was run by an ealy creator of "Mr. Magoo". Soon becoming adept at sound engineering for these organizations, Mr Dockstader took employment at Gotham Recording, New York City. Inspired by Pierre Schaeffer's early "Etudes", Mr Dockstader recorded sounds in and around his appartment (including climbing in the elevator shaft) to capture audio for these works. Using the editing equipment at Gotham Studios, time was split between commercial film audio and these creations. Special thanks to the Smithsonian Institute. Tod Dockstader works are commercially available on Folkways Records, FW03434, Smithsonian Institute.
Composer's Workshop
Nov 30, 2007 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
admission $5.00
206.543.6450
Verso Libero
for Surround Sound System
Using recordings of traffic reports, a soundtrack dialog, and a popular guitar "riff", sounds are transformed into an abstract journey from East to West. Based on the career migration of a UW music professor, the piece touches on both the times and places of this movement. An analog multitrack tape recorder, the main equipment of these "tape pieces" of past electronic composition is used in new ways along side modern direct digital synthesis. This lends both a long view of time and its change (technological fashion) as well as hints of audio from long distant lands (East to West).
Composer's Workshop
May 25, 2007 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
admission $5.00
206.543.6450
Little Bull
for Viola and Live Computer Electronics
Little Bull is loosely based on a reading of Anthony Burgess’ 1984 novel End of the World News. Comprised of three simultaneous stories, two characters and one of the end of the Earth itself, the novel examines the termination of things. The ultimate meaning of our activities, alive in this world, is put before us. The musical work is derived from a series of five abstract scenes that serve to juxtapose the relative meaning of activities such as (examples) manicures, road rage, soap operas, money hording, to the larger actions of nature and the universe. Little Bull gains it name from the translation of the "Torino Impact Hazzard Scale" - a threat level now in use for celestial objects on a collision course with the Earth.
Composer's Workshop
Mar 2, 2007 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
admission $5.00
206.543.6450
Kolme (2006)
for Computer Realized Sound
A comparison of features of our natural surrounding and our human mechanoshere transformed into audio form. The complex beauty of nature is captured in sound derived from muscle movement of the "singing being". This is heard against the more mechanical nature of sounds humans bring to the world through industrialization and music making machinery. All are rendered around a common "time theme" (3:19) rendered as a unifying melodic and rhythmic motive.
Composer's Workshop
Dec 1, 2006 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
admission $5.00
206.543.6450
Composer's Workshop
Dec 1, 2006 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
admission $5.00
206.543.6450
Theonity (edit 2006)
for Computer Realized Quadraphonic Sound
An abstract survey of three world-class human spiritual beliefs. A quadraphonic image separates the inner world from the outer realization of various spiritually driven actions.
Composer's Workshop
May 26, 2006 7:30 PM
(note date change from Saturday to Friday)
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
admission $5.00
206.543.6450
Blue Ridge
for Quadraphonic Computer Realized Sound
Composer's Workshop
December 2, 2005 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
admission $5.00
206.543.6450
Theonity
Live Viola and Quadraphonic sound system
Viola: Brianna Atwell
Composer's Workshop
December 3, 2004 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
Free admission
206.543.6450
Three Etudes for Two Violas
Violas: LeeAnn Morgan, Brianna Atwell
LeeAnn Morgan recital
August 10, 2004 8:00 PM
Musuem of Flight Auditorium
Boeing Field
Free Admission
Three Etudes for Two Violas
Violas: Brianna Atwell, LeeAnn Morgan
Brianna Atwell recital
July 8, 2004 7:30 PM
Brechemin Auditorium
University of Washington School of Music
Free admission
206.543.6450
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