UNCG New Music Festival

UNCG New Music Festival 2005

Presenting Anne LeBaron as Featured Guest Composer

The 2^nd Annual UNCG New Music Festival features artists that are actively engaged in the creation of new forms of expression. Featured guest composer Anne LeBaron explores the relationship between live performers and a computer that “thinks” musically and actively participates in the performance. At the same time, she forges links with the past by making associations with, for example, Johann Nepenuk Maelzel, the 19^th–century inventor of the metronome (an earlier “music machine”) and the (real or legendary?) 9^th-century female pontiff, Pope Joan.

Clay Chaplin dons a special glove with electronic sensors that transmit his hands’ movements into digital impulses that are in turn translated by a computer into sounds…Kadet Kuhne presents films that in a different way translate the visual subjects’ movements into sound…many of the other composers and artists whose works will be presented similarly explore relationships between music of the analog vs. digital worlds.

Mark Engebretson

Assistant Professor of Composition and Electronic Music

Director, Alice Virginia Poe Williams Electronic Music Studio

School of Music

PO Box 26170

UNC Greensboro

Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

336/256-1478

Schedule:

April 7, 2005

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNCG

"Fusing the Muse: Humans, Computers and Sound"

5:30 p.m.

free

April 8, 2005

School of Music Recital Hall, UNCG

7:30 p.m.

$10/$6/$3

April 9, 2005

School of Music, UNCG

Masterclass with Anne LeBaron

10:00 am. to 3:00 p.m.

School of Music Recital Hall, UNCG

7:30 p.m.

$10/$6/$3

This year's Festival will feature Anne LeBaron, who is on the faculty at CalArts and Darius Milhaud Visiting Assistant Professor at Mills College (Spring 2005). Additional composers and performers include, Clay Chaplin, Susan Fancher, Javier Garavaglia, Cheryl Gobbetti-Hoffman, Kadet Kuhne, Maggi Payne, Red Clay Saxophone Quartet, Alejandro Rutty, Alice Shields, Rodrigo Sigal and more.