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Just in case anyone wants to jump on the Concord
and fly on over to Boise this evening... :)
Kris
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Hello all,
This evening, as part of Boise's "First Thursdays",
I am conducting for the second time my audience interactive electro-acoustic
music demonstration. It will be in front of the City Hall, down town Boise,
5-7pm. I look forward to seeing you, or tinkering with my music
machines.
Below is the overview of the program.
Kris
An Interactive Electro-Acoustic
Demonstration by Krispen Hartung Electro-Acoustic Music “Electro-Acoustic music
thrives in more unfamiliar territory; the styles that emerge are often dictated
by the technology itself. Rather than sampling or synthesizing acoustic sounds
to electronically replicate them, these composers tend to mutate the original
timbres, sometimes to an unrecognizable state. True artists in the genre also
create their own sounds (as opposed to using the preset sounds that come with
modern synthesizers). In progressive electro-acoustic music, the electronics
play an equal if not greater part in the overall concept. Acoustic instruments
performed in real time are usually processed through reverb, harmonizing, and so
on, which adds an entirely new dimension to the player's technique. At best,
this music opens up new worlds of listening, thinking, and feeling.”
– All Music
Guide The Demonstration This demonstration allows
you to experience the fundamental principles behind electro-acoustic music. It features three acoustic
instruments as original sound sources: The tongue drum, a music box installed on
a small acoustic guitar, and the “Joe Rut Machine.” The sounds of these three
instruments are routed into a laptop computer, which is running Cycling ‘74’s
software program, MAX/MSP. The software program is running a custom “patch” that
randomly chooses various effects and sound manipulators, randomly alters the
parameters of those effects, and randomly samples and plays back the final
output in real time. In essence,
your spontaneous input is accompanied by the spontaneous input of the computer,
resulting in hybrid human-machine improvisational
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