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Event
17th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs Concert #2
The Music For People & Thingamajigs Festival is an annual event dedicated to promoting experimental music that incorporates made/found instruments and alternate tuning systems. Each year, MFP&T invites artists who design their own musical instruments to join in a festival of workshops, music making, and performances with the goal of reaching a large, diverse audience of all ages. Past participants include Carla Kihlstedt, Walter Kitundu, Peter Whitehead, Brenda Hutchinson, William Winant, Laetitia Sonami, and many others. Celebrating its 17th year in 2014, MFP&T is a celebration of new and unusual explorations in music and performance, featuring afternoon and evening concerts and hands-on workshops.
Tonight's performance features:
"bhel" by Ralph Lewis
Twists and turns nervously as old, new, and unique instruments mumble and shout in multiple voices and disguises. It teases at tuning systems, often distorting them. Difference and similarity are juxtaposed as this trio of wind instruments, trombone, trumpet, and udderbot, finds fragmentary clarities before embarking abruptly, leaving as quickly as it arrived.
Jacob A. Barton, udderbot
Tom Dambly, trumpet
Jack Alexander Madden, bass trombone
http://jacobbarton.net/udderbot/
https://soundcloud.com/ralphlewis
Larry Polansky and Giacomo Fiore
Guitarists Larry Polansky and Giacomo Fiore perform tuning pieces for two guitars by James Tenney, Michael Winter, and Polansky, exploring novel sonorities and new contexts for improvisatory processes; Fiore and Polansky will also be joined by guest musicians in a performance of Polansky's freeHorn, an open-form framework demonstrating slowly changing heterophonic tunings.
http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~larry/
www.giacomofiore.com
"The Amanuensis" by Gino Robair
The Amanuensis is an improvisational structure for any number of players. The score for this piece is spontaneously generated and interpreted in real-time. As randomly chosen text are read, they are transcribed into shorthand, which is projected onto a screen for the players and audience to see. The players interpret the shorthand symbols based on a variety of strategies, many of which require a global awareness of the other performers. Some example strategies include: finish another person's phrase; imitate one aspect of someone else's sound; play the shape on the screen upside down or backwards. The piece ends with a Bingo-like section, where the players only make a sound when their word is used.
Tom Duff, Tom Djll, Bryan Day, David Michalak, Tom Nunn, Brenda Hutchinson, and Gino Robair: instruments
Carrie Katz: voice, transcriber: Jeanne Kunz
http://www.ginorobair.com/video.html
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LocationTemescal Art Center (View)
511 - 48th Street
Oakland, CA 94609
United States
Categories
| Kid Friendly: Yes! |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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