Description
The combination of acoustic sounds with live electronics is an increasingly central feature of contemporary music. This colloquium explores the challenges and rewards of mixed acoustic/electronic music through research talks by composers, musicologists, and performers, as well as live demonstrations of interactive electroacoustic techniques. Featured in this colloquium are guest speakers Hae-Sun Kang (violinist, Ensemble Intercontemporain), Luis Naón (composer, Paris Conservatory), and Jonathan Goldman (musicologist, Université de Montréal), McGill faculty members Robert Hasegawa and Philippe Leroux, and graduate student researchers from McGill's performance, theory, and composition areas.
This weekend's concerts of the McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble (CME) (in collaboration with live@CIRMMT) feature works that bring acoustic instruments and voices together with electronic sounds. The programs include mixed acoustic/electronic works by guest composer Luis Naón (with soloist Juan Sebastian Delgado), McGill professor Philippe Leroux, Georg Friedrich Haas, and PhD candidates Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière and Brice Gatinet, as well as acoustic works by Matthias Pinscher (featuring guest soloist Hae-Sun Kang of the Ensemble Intercontemporain) and composer-in-residence Ana Paola Santillán-Alcocer. In connection with the concerts, a CIRMMT research colloquium organized by Robert Hasegawa will feature talks by the composers and McGill graduate student researchers, with Hae-Sun Kang, Luis Naón, and musicologist Jonathan Goldman as special guests.
Programme/Schedule
10:00 Chester Howard: Performance of Hans Tutschku’s Still Air 1 for bass clarinet
10:15 Mylène Gioffredo: The role of the electronics in Stockhausen's Mantra
10:45 Robert Hasegawa: Open form and performance networks in Luciano Berio’s Laborintus II
11:15 Hae-Sun Kang and Jonathan Goldman: Boulez’s Anthèmes 2 (1998): Structure and performance practice in a classic work for (hyper) violin and electronics
12:00 LUNCH
12:45-1:00 Carly Gordon: Performance of Hans Tutschku’s Still Air 2
1:00 Luis Naón: Introduction to Pájaro contra el borde de la noche (Bird against the edge of night) for cello, electronics, and ensemble
1:30 Gabriel Dufour-Laperrière: Correspondances sonores: extrapolations musicales à partir d’un motet d’Orlando di Lasso
2:00 Carly Gordon and Chester Howard: Electroacoustics in the Practice Room: A performance-practical approach to mixed music. Performance of Hans Tutschku’s Still Air 3
2:45 COFFEE BREAK
3:00 Brice Gatinet: La spatialisation en musique mixte : utilisation compositionnelle de la bibliothèque HOA (High Order Ambisonics Library)
3:30 Laurence Willis: Approaches to Electronics in Haas’s String Quartets No. 4 and No. 7
4:00 Philippe Leroux: Introdution to Quid sit musicus for four voices, guitar, cello and electronics
4:30 Landon Morrison: Technomorphic Transcriptions in Philippe Leroux’s M (1997), m’M (2003), AMA (2009)
5:00 RECEPTION
