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Friday November 15, 2019
JEN SHYU
ZERO GRASSES
xMPL Theatre
Contemporary Arts Center, UCI
8:00 pm, Free
Jen Shyu is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer, and vocalist whose polymath talents are deftly synthesized in the ritualistic solo performance Zero Grasses. This new project of songs, sounds, utterances, and narratives addresses—and aims to heal—the loss of communication between humanity and nature, and the need to restore the bonds between one human being and another.
This event is made possible by a grant from UCI Illuminations.
Saturday December 7, 2019
MARI KIMURA
LISTEN TO THE MOTION
xMPL Theatre
Contemporary Arts Center, UCI
8:00 pm, Free
Violinist/composer Mari Kimura presents the second annual Listen to the Motion concert in collaboration with guest artists, UCI colleagues, and students, incorporating her motion sensor for performance MUGIC™, a prototype currently under development in collaboration with Calit2.
This event is in collaboration with Emergent Media + Design and the Institute for 21st-Century Creativity.
Saturday January 25, 2020
THE LIVING EARTH SHOW
HYPHEN
Winifred Smith Hall
Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI
8:00 pm, Free
Hypen showcases new works written for The Living Earth Show (guitarist Travis Andrews and percussionist Andy Meyerson) by Iranian electroacoustic music composers of different generations: Alireza Mashayekhi, Aida Shirazi, Farnood HaghaniPour, and Nima Rowshan. The concert celebrates Mashayekhi's 80th birthday, and features the world premiere of his new work Labyrinth II.
This event is made possible by a grant from UCI Illuminations.
Friday February 21, 2020
NICOLE MITCHELL, flute and electronics; Christina Wheeler, vocals, mbira, and electronics
IRIDESCENT
Motion Capture Studio
Music and Media Building, Room 218, UCI
8:00 pm, Free
Iridescent is a new project by Nicole Mitchell and Christina Wheeler, combining flute, mbira, electronics, and processed vocals into a luminous, shifting, living soundscape. Seeking discovery, raw emotion, and cultural expression, Iridescent builds mosaics with harmonized African rhythms, ethereal atmospheres, and freewheeling moments, defying genre in a daring musical adventure.
This event is funded in part by a grant from UCI Illuminations.
Tuesday February 25, 2020
LEI LIANG
HEARING LANDSCAPES
Music Collaboration Laboratory (ColLab)
Arts Instruction Technology Resource Center (AITR), Room 190, UCI
12:30 pm, Free
Lei Liang, winner of the 2020 Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition, will give a presentation in the UCI Music Department discussing his recent collaboration with a group of scientists at Calit2/Qualcomm Institute that led to a series of works inspired by Chinese landscape paintings. Hearing Landscapes was composed for 7.1 surround sound spatialization, and will be presented in surround in the ColLab. The event is free and open to all.
Thursday March 5, 2020
MATHEW ROSENBLUM
Sound Spatialization in Composition
Music Collaboration Laboratory (ColLab)
Arts Instruction Technology Resource Center, Room 190, UCI
3:30 pm, Free
Composer Mathew Rosenblum discusses his use of multimedia and multi-channel sound spatialization in his works Red Dust (2007), Last Round (2015), and the site-specific sound installation Portal (2015).
This event is made possible by a grant from UCI Illuminations.
Friday April 17, 2020
MIOLINA
UNISONUS
POSTPONED TILL THE 2020-2021 SEASON
Motion Capture Studio
Music and Media Building, Room 218, UCI
8:00 pm, Free
Violin duo Miolina, Mioi Takeda and Lynn Bechtold, perform a concert of rarely-performed new works for violin(s) and electronics, including works by French composer Jean-Baptiste Favory, UCI professor Mari Kimura, Lynn Bechtold, and others.
Friday April 24, 2020
ALAIN BONARDI
ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FROM PARIS 8
POSTPONED TILL THE 2020-2021 SEASON
Motion Capture Studio
Music and Media Building, Room 218, UCI
8:00 pm, Free
Visiting composer/professor Alain Bonardi, curates a concert of music for instruments and electronics by French composers affiliated with Paris 8 University, including works by Jean-Claude Risset, Horacio Vaggione, Anne Sèdes, Yoko Konishi, Ariadna Alsina, Aline Gorisse, and Alain Bonardi.
This event is made possible by a grant from the French American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Foundation.
Friday May 22, 2020
ICIT STUDENTS
ICIT PHD SHOWCASE CONCERT
Winifred Smith Hall
Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI
8:00 pm, Free
The twelfth annual concert presenting original new works by PhD students in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT) in the UCI Music Department.
This page was last modified on March 14, 2020
by Christopher Dobrian, dobrian@uci.edu