Primavera

Festival of Contemporary Arts and Digital Media

March 8–April 13, 2011, UCSB

Seth Horvitz

Automation is My Salvation: Eight Studies for Automatic Piano

Composer Seth Horvitz talks about his music. Free admission.

Inspired by the work of James Tenney, György Ligeti, Charlemagne Palestine, and Conlon Nancarrow, Seth Horvitz's "Eight Studies for Automatic Piano" makes use of simple, computer-aided compositional processes to test the limits of human perception and machine precision. Relying on a bare minimum of technical means, the series explores notions of temporal distortion, iterative process, and elegant complexity. Presented in an immersive concert setting without the presence of a human performer, the work questions traditional notions of live performance and musical “life.” In this lecture, Seth will discuss the methods, processes, philosophy, and influences behind the work.

Co-sponsored by the Corwin Chair of Music Composition.

Art Gottschalk

College of Creative Studies guest composer Art Gottschalk presents a lecture entitled "Profile, Residue, and Allusion: My Approach to Composing Music". Free admission.

College of Creative Studies guest composer Art Gottschalk presents a lecture entitled "Copyright and the Origins of Our Music Economy". Free admission.

Jennifer Muller

Transformation and Continuance: A Retrospective Celebration of American Choreographer Jennifer Muller, 1959-present

A one day scholarly and artistic conference dedicated to students - an historical conversation about Jennifer Muller and the changing world of American modern dance starting in the 1960s and 1970s. (Followed by a wine and cheese reception starting at 5:30PM)

Geoff Smith

Composer Geoff Smith talks on his invention, the Fluid Piano. Free admission.

This talk will comprise a presentation, inter-active lecture and a selection of videos, audio and photographs demonstrating the design of the Fluid Piano as well as its use by a diverse range of professional composers and performers. The talk will also include a Question and Answer session and open discussion about Smith's invention of the Fluid Piano and its artistic implications and potential as well as the cultural and political issues and principles that it reveals and encapsulates.

Co-sponsored by the Corwin Chair of Music Composition.