Vilbjørg Broch: Reflections
Date:
Thu, 12/05/2024 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage / CCRMA LIVE
Event Type:
Concert 
CCRMA Visiting Scholar/Composer Vilbjørg Broch presents a concert of new works.
6-7pm Pre-Show Talk
6-7pm Pre-Show Talk
FREE and Open to the Public | In Person + Livestream
The evening is composed of spatial audio works made over the past three years. Some computer works are performed with acoustic vocals and some include recorded text fragments. There are text bits from R. Steiner, F. Kafka and cutups on contemporary science texts. There is a focus on synthesis and algorithmic spatialization from projections and transformations of higher dimensional mathematical structures. Some spread keywords are: algebra, affine and hyperbolic geometries, symmetries, Lie groups, mathematical quasicrystals, number theory… Often the creation of resonance via large waveguide meshes modeled from mathematical objects and projected onto 3D is a part of the work. There is here a notion both of instrument and of space. The spatial audio works are realized as very large external objects for Pure Data, and computed offline, which gives a freedom with respect to the involved mathematics.
Born in Denmark in 1967. A background in postmodern dance, improvisation and vocal performance. Studies include School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam and more than a decade by coloratura soprano Marianne Blok. I worked with computer music for around 20 years and from the onset I saw a possibility and necessity for applying new mathematics in the field. Therefore the study of pure mathematics alongside audio DSP has been ongoing through these years, and still is. The work with spatial audio has especially developed thanks to working periods and residencies at CCRMA Stanford, IEM Graz, NOTAM Oslo, EMS Stockholm, ICST Zurich. I am now based in Denmark after several decades in Holland.
