Primavera Festival

April 17-22, 2006

All Week

9:00 AM – 5:00 PM, Monday-Friday, College of Creative Studies Art Gallery: 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. Free Admission.

Monday, April 17

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Karl Geiringer Hall: Graphic Notation Workshop
Pianist Vicki Ray will perform graphic scores created by UCSB Composition Students in the Music Department and the College of Creative Studies, as well as discuss the history of graphic notation in contemporary music. Free Admission.

2:30-4:00 PM, Old Little Theater 154: Electronic Musician:
Amy Knoles will present an interactive workshop with music students from MAT, the Music Department and CCS, with performances and demonstrations on acoustic instruments with “tape,’ sequencer-based performance, Linear Video, Interactives, and Alternate Controllers. This workshop will focus on interactive video. Free Admission

Tuesday, April 18

2:00-4:00 PM, Music 1145: Collaboration: When it Fails, What Next?
Festival composer Anne LeBaron talks about the artistic, legal, and psychological ramifications that arise when a project involving more than one creator takes a dive. Specific citing of Wet into Crescent City; The Vacuum Cleaner into Sucktion; Orpheus Below into The E. & O. Line. Free Admission.

4:00-6:00 PM, Old Little Theater: Composers Forum
Process and Style: One Composer's Life. Karl Kohn, composer & pianist.

Centering on FIVE MORE BAGATELLES for piano (1982), that will be performed by the pianist Genevieve Lee, the discussion will focus first on that work and then attempt to refer and probe, by looking at other works both before and to the present, into the development of Kohn's career as a composer. Free Admission.

Wednesday, April 19

10:30 AM-12:00 PM, Old Little Theater: Electronic Musician
Amy Knoles will present an interactive workshop with music students from MAT, the Music Department and CCS, with performances and demonstrations on acoustic instruments with “tape,’ sequencer-based performance, Linear Video, Interactives, and Alternate Controllers. This workshop will focus on electronic percussion. Free Admission.

2:30-4:00 PM, CCS Art Gallery: Persistence of Vision
A lecture given by Amy Knoles and Dorothy Stone about the life of the E.A.R. Unit. They will touch on the points of Belief, Diversity, Education, and Appropriateness, and how it all works together to create the foundation for an ensemble to survive. Includes DVD examples. Free Admission.

8:00 PM, Lotte Lehman Concert Hall: ECM Concert
UCSB’s Ensemble for Contemporary Music, under the direction of Jeremy Haladyna, presents a varied program of works by festival composer Anne LeBaron and others. Tickets available at the door: $12 general/$7 students.

Thursday, April 20

4:00 – 5:45 PM, Old Little Theater: Gender-Bender of the Dark Middle Ages: Papessa Joanna (aka Pope Joan, a dance opera)
In the second of three presentations on the overarching theme of Challenges of Collaboration in a Multi-Disciplinary Context, composer Anne LeBaron offers an exploration of the history of Pope Joan, the poetry that inspired and was used in the opera, the choreography, and a look at another dance collaboration that addresses relationships: Bodice Ripper. Free Admission.

8:00 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall: Dance 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. Tickets available at the door: $12 general/$7 students.

Friday, April 21

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Karl Geiringer Hall: The King in Yellow: Surrealist Techniques, HyperOpera, and the Rush of Guerilla Tactics
Anne LeBaron discusses the mounting of an operatic event in four hours, via exquisite corpsing, despite time constraints, and with no singers…followed by an investigation of why music did not play a prominent role in the Surrealist movement, and what might constitute ‘surrealist’ music. Free Admission.

12:30-2:00 PM, Music 1219: Contemporary Extended Flute Techniques
Dorothy Stone performs and discusses works by Milton Babbit, Stephen L. Mosko, Harvey Sollberger, and Mel Powell. Free Admission.

8:00 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall: CREATE Concert
New electroacoustic music from UCSB’s CREATE and Media Arts and Technology Program. First, the distinguished modern music composer Martino Traversa (student of Luigi Nono and founder of the Ensemble Edgard Varèse) will make his Santa Barbara debut with works for instruments and electronics. The second side presents multmedia works by students in UCSB's Media Arts and Technology Program. Free admission.

Saturday, April 22

7:00 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall: Pre-Performance Lecture/Demonstration.
Electronic demonstration of the EAR Unit’s techniques for audience members. Free with paid admission to concert.

8:00 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall: Public Performance by the EAR Unit
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 it has just taken up residence at CalArts for performances at REDCAT at Disney Hall. Tickets: $30 / UCSB Students $10

Post Concert, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall: Post-Show Discussion
Informal, public interview with all members of the EAR Unit, ending with questions from the audience.

Friday, May 12