ICMC - more Photos

A few more Photos from the last few ICMC days
(also courtesy of Christopher Chong):



(Ivan and Elisabeth - Whitla Hall)







(John Kenny - Whitla Hall)







(Roots Ensemble - Oosterveld piece)







(Roots Ensemble - Weixler piece)







(Ivan and Franziska - Weixler piece)







(Roots Ensemble - Oliveros network piece)







(Last gig of ICMC08: Trad night - Mandela Hall)

ICMC 2008 is over

ICMC 2008 is behind us. We are all relieved and have had our one day post-ICMC depression. Now back to our daily jobs...
Here are further photos on flickr from the entire ICMC week.
(Photos below courtesy of Christopher Chong)

Photos:

Network Performance ICMC/NYU/CCRMA

Today we will be testing/rehearsing the piece for next week's ICMC network performance. Exciting news is that we will be using Curtis Bahn’s vibrobytes.
We will be joined by two other ensembles in Troy/New York:
Tintinabulate (directed by Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch and Curtis Bahn of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute):
Curtis Bahn - dilruba
Jonas Braasch - soprano sax
Pauline Oliveros - accordion
Dan Valente - violin
Holland Hobson - ?
Anne Guthrie - horn
Bobby Gibbs - clarinet
Doug van Nort - laptop

In Palo Alto/California by SoundWire (directed by Chris Chafe, director of CCRMA at Stanford University):
Chris Chafe - Celleto
Juan-Pablo Caceres – synthesizer

In Belfast from SARC The Roots Ensemble (directed by Franziska Schroeder):
Franziska Schroeder - saxophone
Pedro Rebelo - piano
Alain Renaud - laptop
Gascia Ouzounian - violin

Next week, we will also be joined by:
Laoise Kelly - Traditional harp
Ivan Goff – Pipes
John Kenny – trombone

The piece we are doing is entitled "Tele-Morphosis". It is an improvisation for three co-located music ensembles and telematic live-electronics. In this work the relationships between co-located musicians and their interactions across different acoustic and virtual spaces are explored.

ICMC 2008

The upcoming ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) is very, very close.
It is taking place in Belfast this year and we are all flat out with organising. I have taken on the artisitc direction of the Roots Ensemble, which will be playing the opening concert of the ICMC on Sunday, the 24th of August, 7pm in the Whitla Hall. The Roots Ensemble will be playing throughout the conference in various formations. I have been able to recruit some amazing players and if you are nearby you can hear performers such as German based Flautist Carin Levine, Portuguese Percussionist Pedro Carneiro, UK-based Pianist Philip Thomas, Trombonist John Kenny from Scotland, and Cellist Su-a-Lee, Violinist Roman Mints, Concert Accordionist Denis Patkovic from Germany, Irish born (New-York based) Piper Ivan Goff, Irish Harpist Laoise Kelly, Bass Clarinettist Deirdre O'Leary, US-based Clarinettist Esther Lamneck and my humble self on saxes.