Concerts and Exhibits

Spatiotemporal Transforms
Showcases media art works from graduate students at the University of California Santa Barbara. Drawing from various departments, this week long exhibition will feature pieces drawn from the categories of video installation, interactive and kinetic sculpture, sound sculpture, and multimedia. College of Creative Studies Art Gallery: all week, 9 AM- 5 PM. Free admission.

Ensemble for Contemporary Music- New Music: The Gospel According to...
Stellar perfomers and composers seek to answer that question in the UCSB Ensemble for Contemporary Music’s festival offering. Director Jeremy Haladyna leads Derek Bermel's Soul Garden for 6 strings...partly rooted in gospel music and featuring viola soloist Kurt Rohde, music faculty. For festival guest composer Anne LeBaron, it's Nature serving as Cathedral in her Concerto for Active Frogs. Divine soprano Tihana Herceg joins Joel Feigin in his Sonnets to Orpheus...George Crumb's Sonata for solo Cello features ECM cello apostle Hilary Clark, and ECM gives Nicht Vorsichtig, Bobby Halvorson's epistle for strings, a no-holds-barred premiere. Lotte Lehman Concert Hall: 8 PM, 19 April. Tickets: $12 general/$7 students.

UCSB Dance Company Concert
The UCSB Dance Company, directed by Delila Moseley. The program will include five dance works by faculty and guest choreographers: Christopher Pilafian’s Blindspot, Valerie Huston’s Juxtapose, Tonia Shimin’s Just Now, Stephanie Nugent’s Faster Than That, and Jose Limon’s Psalm, reconstructed by UCSB professor emerita Alice Condodina. Lotte Lehman Concert Hall: 8 PM, 20 April. Tickets: $12 general/$7 students.

CREATE Concert
The Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Director, Curtis Roads, Associate Director) presents a concert featuring new electroacoustic and multimedia works. The concert will showcase the works of student composers from California digital media centers such as Stanford, UCSD, Mills College, California Institute for the Arts, and UCSB.
The sounds will be projected on the Creatophone, a multichannel pluriphonic sound projection system. Lotte Lehman Concert Hall: 8 PM, 21 April. Free admission.

California EAR Unit Concert
The six-member California EAR Unit, an exuberant chamber ensemble dedicated to the creation, performance and promotion of new music, is acclaimed worldwide for its adventurous musicality. For eighteen seasons EAR Unit was the Ensemble-in-Residence in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and is currently in residence at CalArts for performances at REDCAT at Disney Hall.

This concert, an exciting program of new works featuring electronic and acoustic instruments, video and text by composers Morton Subotnik, Eve Belgarian, Shaun Naidoo, Anne LeBaron, and EAR Unit's own Amy Knoles, will conclude with the group's acclaimed version of "James Sellars' accurately titled 'Go,' a densely textured ten minute non-stop vertigo trip" (Albuquerque Journal). Supported by the Visiting Artists Program of the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. Lotte Lehman Concert Hall: 8 PM, 22 April. Tickets: $30 / UCSB Students $10