2015 Spring Concert — Calculated Operations: The Techno Performance Paradox.
April 4, The Jam Handy, Detroit
Video to come.
2014 Spring Concert — Gradual Processes: Minimalist Electronic Chamber Music.
Concert Highlights
Meeting Points - Composed by Gabriel Wilk Mizrahi, performed by Gabriel Wilk Mizrahi, Eric Sheffield, and Lena Sutter
Pendulum Music - Steve Reich Arrangement for webcams, video displays.
Our 2013 Spring Concert — Radiophonics — featured new and classic compositions using radios. Over the course of the semester, we explored the theme of radio: radio as a medium, as a technology, as an institution, as a musical instrument.
Different Stations – Composition by Brian Kelley. Performed by Conor Barry & Brian Kelley
(electronics), Alex Huryk (violin), and Simon Alexander-Adams (piano).
Two performers sample and loop live talk radio and rebroadcast it via an
FM transmitter. By inserting themselves into the broadcast loop, they
effectively subvert, co-opt, and mediate the medium. Two
instrumentalists improvise with the rebroadcast signal, received on
another FM radio receiver.
Number Stations – by Conor Barry. Performed by Conor Barry and Brian Kelley.
This choreographed piece for two radios and two performers derives its source material from The Conet Project, a large collection of recordings of “number station” broadcasts. These shortwave radio stations first appeared after WWII, broadcasting mysterious coded messages often in the form of spoken sequences of numbers, to be deciphered by spies in the field. By extracting the rhythmic qualities of these broadcasts, we try to translate these covert messages into actions, oftentimes highlighting their more absurd characteristics.
