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University of Richmond UR Scholarship Repository Music Department Concert Programs Music 11-3-2017 Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival Department of Music, University of Richmond Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.richmond.edu/all-music-programs Part of the Music Performance Commons Recommended Citation Department of Music, University of Richmond, "Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival" (2017). Music Department Concert Programs. 505. https://scholarship.richmond.edu/all-music-programs/505 This Program is brought to you for free and open access by the Music at UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Music Department Concert Programs by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LJ --w ...~ r~ S+ if! L Christopher Chandler Acting Director WELCOME to the 2017 Third festival presents works by students Practice Electroacoustic Music Festi from schools including the University val at the University of Richmond. The of Mary Washington, University of festival continues to present a wide Richmond, University of Virginia, variety of music with technology; this Virginia Commonwealth University, year's festival includes works for tra and Virginia Tech. ditional instruments, glass harmon Festivals are collaborative affairs ica, chin, pipa, laptop orchestra, fixed that draw on the hard work, assis media, live electronics, and motion tance, and commitment of many. sensors. We are delighted to present I would like to thank my students Eighth Blackbird as ensemble-in and colleagues in the Department residence and trumpeter Sam Wells of Music for their engagement, dedi as our featured guest artist. cation, and support; the staff of the Third Practice is dedicated not Modlin Center for the Arts for their only to the promotion and creation energy, time, and encouragement; of new electroacoustic music but and the Cultural Affairs Committee also to strengthening ties within and the Music Department for finan our community. To that end, we take cial support. I am also grateful for great pleasure in presenting a Virginia the support of Ben Broening who exchange concert featuring under has, for the last four years, entrusted graduate and graduate student works me with much of the festival he from all around the state. This year's began seventeen years ago. • Installation ............... 2 Featured Artist .......... 6 Concert Four ........... 28 Schedule Concert One .............. 7 Concert Five ............ 32 Overview .................... 3 Concert Two ............ 14 Concert Six .............. 36 Ensemble-in- Residence .................. 4 Concert Three ......... 22 UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND 1 RESONANT SPACES: BELL TOWER Tim Feeney FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2017 3:30-5:00 pm 4:00-5:30 pm Westhampton Lake Jenkins Greek Theatre RESONANT SPACES is a series of and interfere with one another. At installation works creating an elec a distance, this texture fades into troacoustic sound environment using and blends with that of the natural resonant "speaker-objects" built by soundscape generated by crickets, attaching small speakers to snare birds, and nearby pedestrian and drums. The size, shape, and tuning of auto traffic. At close range, the sound each drum filter these sounds, which of an individual drum saturates its are further affected by the geometry siting location. and construction of the surrounding These sounds arrange themselves space. The resultant sounds of these in the form of a clock, such that dif hybrid electronic and acoustic instru ferent beacons arrive together at the ments activate the resonant frequen quarter and half hour. When all four cies of their locations, delineating the are speaking at the top of the hour, physicality of a surrounding environ their combined sound reproduces the ment defined both by its architecture resonant frequencies of the bell in and materiality. the Boatwright Library tower. Bell Tower stages sounds around Participants stopping to listen to a the hiking trails and common space beacon in one location experience the near Westhampton Lake, and when interaction between nearby and far sounding together fade into an away reflections, and carve their own irregular droning texture, as dif physical and aural path through the ferent overtones collide, reinforce, space over the duration of the event. • !l.iM$1 Artistic Director Production Manager, Technical Assistants Benjamin Broening Modlin Center for the Arts Becky Brown Sean Farrell Reuben Davis Acting Director Mike Dietrick Christopher Chandler Assistant Production James Kim Manager, Modlin Technical Director Roshan Sen Center for the Arts Matthew McCabe Xavier McCormick Robert Richards Associate Graphic Design and Program Design Technical Director Pre-Concert Animations Sarah Barton Nick Mobley John Malinoski 2 THIRD PRACTICE 2017 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE OVERVIEW FRIDAY, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2017 NOVEMBER 4, 2017 11:00 am CONCERT ONE, 11:00 am CONCERT FOUR, CAMP CONCERT HALL CAMP CONCERT HALL Virginia Exchange Music of Austin, Music of Belolipetski, Brown, McCabe, Bouchard, Bukvic, Neikirk, Thompson, Cole, Dragone, Hale, and Stebbins Mullany, and Robertson 3:00pm CONCERT FIVE, 2:00pm CONCERT TWO, PERKINSON PERKINSON RECITAL HALL RECITAL HALL featuring Sam Wells featuring Sam Wells Music of Ashby, Music of Broening, Bratt, Burtner, Carroll, Chan, Snyder, and Olson Chandler, and Ernste 7:30pm CONCERT SIX, 7:30pm CONCERT THREE, CAMP CONCERT HALL CAMP CONCERT HALL featuring Sam Wells Music of Alvarez, and Eighth Blackbird Choi, Cox, Fieldsteel, Music of Chen, Liberatore, Park, Davis, Joachim, Pezzulo, and Shen Joyce, Kouyoumdjian, Negron, Nguyen, Reid, and Shatin Tickets are not required for Third Practice events. UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND 3 Eighth Blackbird Nathalie Joachim, flutes Michael Maccaferri, clarinets Yvonne Lam, violin and viola Nick Photinos, cello Matthew Duvall, percussion Lisa Kaplan, piano EIGHTH BLACKBIRD is "one of the Eighth Blackbird first gained wide smartest, most dynamic contem recognition in 1998 as winners of the porary classical ensembles on the Concert Artists Guild Competition. planet" (Chicago Tribune). Launched Over the course of two decades, by six entrepreneurial Oberlin Con the group has commissioned and servatory undergraduates in 1996, premiered hundreds of works by this Chicago-based supergroup has composers such as David Lang, earned its status as "a brand-name ... Steven Mackey, Missy Mazzoli, and defined by adventure, vibrancy and Steve Reich, whose Double Sextet quality.... known for performing from went on to win the 2009 Pulitzer memory, employing choreography Prize. A longterm relationship with and collaborations with theater Chicago's Cedille Records has pro artists, lighting designers and even duced eight acclaimed recordings puppetry artists" (Detroit Free Press). and four Grammy Awards for Best 4 THIRD PRACTICE 2017 FESTIVAL Small Ensemble/Chamber Music Ensemble-in-Residence position Performance, most recently in 2016 at the University of Richmond. The for Filament. They were named Music 201516 season featured a pioneering America's 2017 Ensemble of the Year, residency at Chicago's Museum of and in 2016 were the inaugural recip Contemporary Art: a Living installa ients of Chamber Music America's tion with open rehearsals, perfor Visionary Award and the prestigious mances, guest artists, and public MacArthur Award for Creative and talks. In 2017, Eighth Blackbird Effective Institutions. Launched its boldest initiative yet with Eighth Blackbird's 2017-18 season the creation of Blackbird Creative marks debuts in Turin, Milan, Buda Laboratory, a tuition-free, two-week pest, with the Philadelphia Orchestra summer workshop and performance and Cincinnati Ballet, tours through festival for performers and compos 11 states, and the release of Olag6n, ers in Ojai, CA. a new album featuring music by Dan Eighth Blackbird's members hail Trueman, poetry by Paul Muldoon, from the Great Lakes, Keystone, and sean nos singer larla 6 Lionaird. Golden, Empire and Bay states. The Eighth Blackbird celebrated its 20th name "Eighth Blackbird" derives anniversary in 2016 with tours of from the eighth stanza of Wallace music from Filament and Hand Eye, Stevens's evocative, imagistic poem, as well as keystone performances Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black celebrating Steve Reich's BOth birth bird: "I know noble accents I And day, a fresh round of raucous shows Lucid, inescapable rhythms; I But with "Appalachian postpunk solipsist" I know, too, I That the blackbird is (The Wanderer) Will Oldham (Bonnie involved I In what I know." • Prince Billy), and world premieres by Holly Harrison, Pulitzer Prize-winner eighthblackbird. org David Lang, and Ned McGowan. Eighth Blackbird's mission-mov Eighth Blackbird is managed by David ing music forward through innova Lieberman Artists, Hazard Chase and tive performance, advocating for Paola Castellano. new music by Living composers, and creating a Legacy of guiding an Nathalie Joachim is a Burkart Flutes & emerging generation of musicians Piccolos artist, Michael J. Maccaferri extends beyond recording and tour is a D'Addario Woodwinds Artist. Mat ing to curation and education. The thew Duvall proudly endorses Pearl ensemble served as Music Director Drums and Adams Musical Instru of the 2009 Ojai Music Festival, has ments, Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets, held residencies at the Curtis Insti Zildjian Cymbals,