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Interface: Music for Human, Machine and Cardboard

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Start:
March 16, 2014 7:00 pm
Cost:
10

 

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Acclaimed ensemble String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, violins) with guests Lou Bunk, Steve Beck, Lisa Leong, and Jan Müller-Szeraws will perform a concert of contemporary works scored for strings, piano, cardboard, and electronics at The Firehouse Space.

The program includes Robert C. Constables Vicious Cycles, composed especially for the personalities of the Duo, Gordon Mumma’s pioneering YAWAWOT, Jean-Claude Risset’s seminal Variants, Lou Bunk’s Study for Bowed Cardboard, performed by Bunk on the scratch-o-lin, an electronic instrument designed by Bunk, Jonathan Harvey’s brilliant sonic tribute Tombeau de Messiaen, and recent works by Chris Arrell, Derek Hurst, Takuma Itoh, John Mallia, Paul Reller, and Spencer Topel.

String Noise is an “enterprising violin duo” in NYC comprised of “two of the most focused and lustrous-toned avant stalwarts.” Channeling “all the sweetness of Mantovani’s 1001 strings into just eight,” Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris, who are married, break down barriers and expand the traditional boundaries of the two violin repertoire, redefining the possible. “trailblazing duo” – Time Out NY. “lightning fast reflexes and warmly matched sounds” – NY Times. “formidable display of virtuosity.” -New Music Box

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Lou Bunk is an American composer and improviser inspired by many forms of avant-garde artistic expression. Educated in classical composition, and deeply influenced by the vibrant electro-acoustic improv scene in and around Boston and New York, Lou’s music occupies a space between and among concert halls and fringe performance galleries. His sonically rich and intricate music investigates sound and silence through extended instrumental techniques, microtones, amplified found objects, electronics, and generative approaches to texture and form. He co-directs Collide-O-Scope Music, a New York City based new music ensemble, and is Assistant Professor of Music at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire where he teaches electronic music and composition.

Lisa Leong, hailed as a “virtuoso” performer by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has actively performed and premiered works across the United States and abroad, including the Keyboard 2000 Festival at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., and Victoria Memorial Hall in Singapore. She has appeared as soloist with the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and worked with Bent Frequency, Boston Musica Viva, and Atlanta Opera. From 2006-2009, she was co-founder, pianist and artistic director for Sonic Generator, a leading new music ensemble based at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, performing and commissioning works by composers such as Steve Reich, Nico Muhly, and Louis Andriessen.

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Cellist Jan Müller-Szeraws’ musical journey has taken him over three continents as a soloist, chamber musician and teacher. Recent performances have included solo-engagements with the New England Philharmonic, Concord Orchestra, Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Moscow Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Concepción and Orquesta Sinfónica de Chile. He is member of Trio Tremonti and contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva. A guest artist at many festivals, he is on faculty at the Phillips Academy Andover and the College of the Holy Cross.

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