Telemetry Concert with Special Guest Mari Kimura
The University of Virginia Department of Music presents a concert in the Telemetry Music Series at The Looking Glass at Ix Art Park (522 2nd St SE Suite D, Charlottesville, VA 22902) on Friday, March 15th at 8pm. This performance features Special Guest Mari Kimura. The event is free and open to the public.
Performances by:
Jordan Perry and Anika — guitar and live video
the Creative Music Ensemble, directed by Nicole Mitchell Gantt
Mari Kimura
JORDAN AND ANIKA improvise guitar sounds and digital upside downs constructed from discrete data points. They are an audio-visual band. Acoustic stagger and unimagined scapes.
THE CREATIVE MUSIC ENSEMBLE is a musical collective of UVA students, UVA faculty, and Charlottesville musicians. Together, they perform and compose free jazz, contemporary jazz, and new forms of song that emerge from their close collaboration and improvisational prowess.
MARI KIMURA is at the forefront of violinists who are extending the technical and expressive capabilities of the instrument. As a performer, composer, researcher, and entrepreneur, she has opened up new sonic worlds and new musical possibilities for the violin. Notably, she has mastered the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s lowest string without re-tuning. This technique, which she calls Subharmonics, has earned Mari considerable renown in the concert music world and beyond. She is also a pioneer in the field of interactive computer music. At the same time, she has earned international acclaim as a soloist and recitalist in both standard and contemporary repertoire. Her most recent efforts involves entrepreneurship, bringing her prototype motion sensor MUGIC™, (pronounced "mu" as in music +"gic" as in magic) to the market.
Mari be performing three pieces:
1. Mari Kimura: Gemini for Subharmonics (1995)
2. Dai Fujikura: Motion Notions for violin and motion sensor (2019)
3. Mari Kimura: Rossby Waving for violin and MUGIC® sensor, graphics by Liubo Borissov (2017)
The Telemetry series features UVA faculty, students, locals, and renown experimental performers. They push boundaries of musicianship by offering a unique laboratory to engage new methods of composition and instrumentation. Unlike anything else in the city, Charlottesville artists and audiences connect with new concepts and are continuously inspired towards ingenuity through unique sound experiences.
All events are subject to change.
Please contact the UVA Department of Music at 434.924.3052 or music@virginia.edu for more information.