MISTIC CONCERT V: Robotics and Music & Trimpin the Sound of Invention Screening
Program, P.2135
- Identifier
- P.2135
- Type
- Music performances;Screenings
- Category
- New Music
- Date
- January 22 – 23, 2011
- Description
- The University of Victoria’s Music Intelligence and Sound Technology Interdisciplinary Collective (MISTIC) presents an evening of live performances of compositions and improvisations for humans and robots and/or robotic musical instruments. This concert will take place at Open Space on Sunday, January 23 at 8:00 p.m. The Machine Orchestra brings together custom-built robotic musical instruments and human performers with modified instruments, unique musical interfaces, and hemispherical speaker-pods. A pioneer in new musical instruments, Andy Schloss (Seattle/Victoria) is a virtuoso on the radiodrum. He currently teaches at the University of Victoria. Ajay Kapur builds custom electronic instruments and is currently the director of the Music Technology program (MTIID) at the California Institute of the Arts. Arne Eigenfeldt is an associate professor of electroacoustic music at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts. Composer Darren Miller hails from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Rockstar coder Steven Ness is a PhD Candidate at the University of Victoria. Trimpin (Seattle) is a sculptor, sound artist, musician, composer, engineer and inventor. His visit is part of the preparation for a major installation at Open Space in Spring 2012. Joanna Hood (Victoria) will join MISTIC as a guest performer on viola. Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, Peter Esmonde’s documentary about Trimpin will be screened the previous evening, Saturday, January 22 starting at 8:00 p.m. Admission by donation.