GASSMANN ELECTRONIC MUSIC SERIES
2016 - 2017

Pamela Z
    Pamela Z

Laetitia Sonami
    Laetitia Sonami

Val-Inc.
    Val-Inc.

Now Hear
    Now Hear Ensemble

Ryat
    Ryat

ICIT Student Concert
    ICIT Student Concert

 


FALL:

10/21/16

WINTER:

01/24/17

01/27/17

SPRING:

04/13/17

04/24/17

05/11/17

05/25/17


 

FALL 2016

 


 


Friday October 21, 2016

PAMELA Z
Works for Voice, Live Electronics, and Video

Pamela Z

Winifred Smith Hall, UCI
8:00 pm, Free

Composer/performer Pamela Z performs an evening of solo works for voice, real time electronic processing, interactive video, and gesture controllers. The evening will include short works from her concert repertoire as well as excerpts from larger performance works such as Baggage Allowance and This Impossible Building.

Also...

Thursday, October 20, 2016
"Live Performance, Alternative Instruments"
A lecture presentation by Pamela Z
Music Collaboration Laboratory, AITR 190
2:00 pm, Free

Computer music composer/performer Pamela Z will discuss her compositional techniques and aesthetics, and will demonstrate some of the digital technology she employs including vocal processing and gestural control of sound and image.

 


 

WINTER 2017

 


 


Tuesday January 24, 2017
Øyvind Brandtsegg
"Cross adaptive processing as musical intervention:
Exploring radically new modes of musical interaction in live performance"
Oeyvind Brandtsegg

Music Collaboration Laboratory, AITR 190
3:30 pm, Free

Øyvind Brandtsegg, professor of music technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), will lecture on his current research in the ICIT Research Colloquium.

 


 


Friday January 27, 2017
VAL-INC.
Afro Electronica
Val-Inc.

Winifred Smith Hall, UCI
8:00 pm, Free

Val-Inc., New York computer music performer, has created her own style of live electronic music performance
called Afro-Electronica, combining electronica with Haitian Vodou percussion rhythms,
incorporating her ancestors' past into the future with electronic instruments.

Also, that same day...

Friday, January 27, 2017
A lecture presentation by Val-Inc.
Winifred Smith Hall
5:00 pm, Free

Travel funding for Val-Inc. has been generously provided by the African American Student Experience Committee (Council on Climate, Culture and Inclusion).

 


 

SPRING 2017

 


 


Thursday April 13, 2017

Ryat
Ableton University Tour

Ryat

Room 218, Music and Media Building, UCI
7:00 pm, Free

The Ableton University Tour is a series of free music-making events taking place at university campuses across the U.S. This concert will feature solo artist Ryat (Christina McGeehan), who combines her vocals with loops and live effects processing. Early arrivals to the evening event will be welcomed with pizza, swag and a short movie screening.

Also...

Thursday, April 13, 2017
"Ableton Live"
A presentation by Javad Butah
Music Collaboration Laboratory, AITR 190
2:30 pm, Free

Ableton brand manager Javad Butah will present the powerful, innovative, and ubiquitous music software Live. This presentation is open to the public.

 


 


Monday April 24, 2017

Now Hear Ensemble
Chamber Music Meets Technology

Now Hear Ensemble

Winifred Smith Hall, UCI
8:00 pm, Free

The Now Hear Ensemble performs an eclectic mix of new musical works for instruments and computers, including world premiers by composers in the UCI PhD program in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology.

Also...

Monday, April 24, 2017
The Now Hear Ensemble
Open rehearsal of new works of
contemporary chamber music
Room 218, Music and Media Building
10:00 am, Free and open to all

 


 


Thursday May 11, 2017

Laetitia Sonami
Polar Attractions
Interactive Computer Music Performance

Laetitia Sonami

Room 218, Music and Media Building, UCI
8:00 pm, Free

Laetitia Sonami will perform two electronic music pieces with her new instrument, the Spring Spyre. Her most recent composition, "Breathing in Birds...", explores the unstable nature of the instrument. "OCCAM IX", composed for her by her mentor Eliane Radigue, grounds the instrument in subtle sonic shifts.

Also...

Thursday, May 11, 2017
"Your Presence is Required"
a presentation by Laetitia Sonami
Music Collaboration Laboratory, AITR 190
1:00 pm, Free and open to all

Composer, performer and installation artist Laetitia Sonami discusses her 35 years of exploration in the electronic music arena and her search for presence through the creation of personal gestural interfaces.

Also...

Wednesday, May 10, 2017
"The Sonic Lens"
a presentation by Laetitia Sonami
CAC Colloquium Room, CAC 3201
4:00 pm, Free and open to all

Composer, performer and installation artist Laetitia Sonami provides an overview of her installation works and the transformation of ubiquitous objects through sounds. Sonami will also discuss the works of visual artists whose use of sounds is essential to their practice.

 


 


Thursday May 25, 2017

ICIT Student Concert
New music by students of the UCI Music Department's innovative graduate program

ICIT Student Concert

Winifred Smith Hall
8:00 pm, Free

The ninth annual concert presenting original new works by PhD students in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) in the UCI Music Department.

 


 

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