Workshops and Lectures
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. Karl Geiringer Hall: 17 April,
10:30 AM - 12 PM.
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. Old Little
Theater 154: 17 April, 2:30-4 PM.
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. Music 1145: 18 April, 2-4 PM.
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. Old Little Theater:
18 April, 4-6 PM.
Electronic Musician: Electronic Percussion
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. Old Little Theater: 19 April, 10:30 AM - 12 PM.
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.
CCS Art Gallery: 19 April, 2:30-4 PM.
Gender-Bender of the Dark Middle Ages: Papessa Joanna
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.
Old Little Theater: 20 April, 4-5:45 PM.
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. Karl Geiringer
Hall : 21 April, 10:30 AM - 12 PM.
Contemporary Extended Flute Techniques
Dorothy Stone performs and discusses
works by Milton Babbit, Stephen L. Mosko, Harvey Sollberger, and Mel Powell.
Music 1219: 21 April, 12:30-2 PM.
Reading Session
The California EAR Unit will read works by advanced composition
students at UCSB. Four to six composers will be selected by the ensemble.
2110 Kerr Hall (Sound Recording): 12 May, 1-4 PM
The E.A.R. Unit Residency is sponsored by the Visiting Artist Program
of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB.
