TechnoSonics XV: Found Sound
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The University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music and the Virginia Center for Computer Music present TechnoSonics XV: Found Sound on Thursday November 6 2014. TechnoSonics is an annual themed festival that showcases digital music and intermedia and brings high profile outside performers and composers to collaborate with UVA composers and faculty performers. TechnoSonics XV: Found Sound is supported by the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts.
For our fifteenth annual TechnoSonics Festival, we focus on the role of “found sound” in new media. This combines the use of humble everyday materials and environmental sounds with technological processing, multimedia and live performance interactions. Found sound as a musical resource has a long history, from the early twentieth century, when it was used by composers such as Eric Satie, Arthur Honegger, and George Antheil, whose Ballet Mécanique included three airplane propellers and seven electric bell! John Cage used all kinds of found sounds in his work, ranging from radio frequencies to a cactus. As digital transformation of sound became possible, a host of composers have created compelling music using the sounds of everyday objects.
This concert kicks off the two-day festival and features the music of outstanding UVa emerging composers as well as music by Joo Won Park and other major composers who draw on found sound. There will be a pre-concert panel discussing the music immediately prior to the performance at 7:30 p.m. Thursday evening events will be livestreamed from Open Grounds: http://www.livestream.com/universityofvirginia?t=207044
Reviews for Joo Won Park:
“In the hands of Philadelphia-based Joo Won Park, the no-input mixer is less a matter of singing than full-on, tantrum-level glossolalia, a heavy gurgle of electric fissues. Up above is Park’s October 1402 (for no-input mixer and computer), which at times sounds like an arcade game on its last legs, and at others like freakazoid hardcore free jazz improvisation.”- Disquiet, October 2013
“Joo Won Park is a rising star among modern composers. He produces music by recording everyday sounds as well as some more unusual ones and designing his own instruments from these sounds, using specialized programs to process the sounds via computer. Some of the programs are so specialized, in fact, that he codes them himself, line by line. It is a painstaking process, but one that yields spectacular results.”- Pathways Magazine, Oct 2010
“Both in terms of malipulating sound, and simply using sound, Joo Won Park is fantastically talented, and it is apparent in every second, with every subtle change, with every click and swirl of this piece. With each phase, each time one texture moves into the next, one is certain that it could have occurred in no other way. Beautiful.” - Asymmetry Magazine, April 2010
PROGRAM AND PERFORMERS SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
An Arts Enhancement Event supported by the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts.