Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble in residence, Sonic Generator, presents their first concert of the season at the Georgia Tech Alumni House at 190 North Avenue on Monday, Nov 3th, 2008 at 8 p.m. The concert, which is free and open to the public, features compositions by Marco Buongiorno Nardelli, Anna Clyne, Paula Matthusen, Tristan Perich, Jacob Ter Veldhuis, and Cody Wright.
Sonic Generator's season opener presents a program of provocative and engaging music, all written in the past eight years. In of minutiae and memory (2006) for cello and voice, Miami-based Paula Matthusen draws on the memory of her grandmother's telling of a Norwegian table prayer. Composer and physicist Marco Buongiorno Nardelli takes inspiration from the words of the Italian Nobel Prize poet Eugenio Montale for his composition Ossi di seppia (2006) for amplified flute and digital effects. Georgia Tech music technology alum Mark Godfrey creates a video animation, responding in real time to the music, for this piece. Words also serve as the inspiration for Cody Wright's Daydream (2001) — this time to those of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Written for tenor saxophone and vibraphone, the composition contains recorded material from Dr. King's last speech, delivered in Memphis in April of 1968.
Tristan Perich provides six car speakers and a $40 circuit board (custom built by the composer) to generate the electronics for his piece, Observations (2008), which feature Perich's 1-bit electronics to accompany a duo of crotales players. In Rapture (2005), London-born composer Anna Clyne presents a dramatic work for clarinet and prerecorded electronic sound. The concert concludes with the US premiere of Able to Be (2005) by Jacob Ter Veldhuis. This quartet for voice, flute, violin, percussion, soundtrack, and video explores the rise to fame of Marilyn Monroe, seeking to show something of the real person behind the icon.
Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble in residence, explores the ways in which technology can transform how we create, perform, and listen to music. The ensemble, comprised of five of the top classical musicians in Atlanta, works closely with Georgia Tech faculty and students to present concerts that bring cutting-edge technologies to the world of contemporary classical music.
Sonic Generator is sponsored by the GVU Center, an interdisciplinary research center which focuses on unlocking human potential through technical innovation in computing technologies. The concert series is organized by the Music Department in the College of Architecture and the Center for Music Technology, which use new technologies to change the way people compose, listen to, and perform music.
For more information, visit http://www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu.