Visonuality at CCRMA
Date:
Tue, 04/11/2017 - 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
CCRMA Stage
Event Type:
Concert Ethereal Baltic harmonies haunt Žibuoklė Martinaitytė’s ‘Serenity Diptychs’. Stuart Diamond creates contemplative and insightful videos to both the epic Ciaccona by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Dominique de Williencourt’s soulfully evocative ‘Mont Ararat’ that simulates a duo of duduks on scordatura viola.
Franco-Venezuelan composer and Visiting Scholar at Stanford, Servio Marin continues his foray into visonuality by fusing music, theatre, performance arts, multimedia, and dance. His new piece Sonic Talisman explores visual and aural interrelations, studying and analyzing the physics of sound by itself, as well as the role it plays inside the context of several music repertory languages.
A visonual work is like a living picture, a visual-sound poem in which the viewer is invited to enter, and is subtly enveloped by an impregnating drizzle of sense.
Program notes are available at http://www.kbentley.com/violin-viola-video-virtuosity-2016/
The complete program is as follows:
Serenity Diptychs for violin, tape, and still images (2015) by Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė. Photographic imagery and video by Philip VanKeuren; visual and digital production by Melissa Tran
Ciaccona from Partita #2 in D minor, BWV 1004 (1720) by Johann Sebastian Bach. Video by Stuart Diamond (2017) [World Premiere]
Mont Ararat for solo viola (2011) by French composer Dominique de Williencourt. Video by Stuart Diamond (2017) [World Premiere]
Sonic Talisman, visonual arts, instrumental-computer music, video performance, created by Servio Marin for violinist virtuoso Karen Bentley Pollick (2017) [World Premiere]
with the participation of
Maggie Davis, sign language poetry
Nette Worthey, narration
Daniel Bereket, trumpet
Carlos Sanchez, guitar
Yula Cisneros, dance
Son Tung Nguyen, dance
Timothy Lee, dance
Katie Renati, dance
Chocolate Heads, arts-performance and dance
Emiliano Samora Montoya, actor
Sabine MacQuarrie, poetry
Leo Hammes, paintings
Servio Marin, composer-director
One of the violin pieces inside Sonic Talisman, include the D1-Duetto, for Karen's violin and surrounding sound music system.
I was so impressed by Fernando Lopez-Lezcano's Grail (the Giant Radial Array for Immersive Listening), that I got inspired to write a theatrical, visonual duetto for violin and this speakers system. In fact, as a Visiting Scholar at CCRMA, trying to get in touch with the latest innovations on music research, I insisted that Fernando let me hear, with his system GRAIL, one of my music spatialization pieces, Impresiones Fugitivas (Editions Mego, REGRM 012, Austria, 2014) so that by using a very familiar piece, as reference, I could by ear, immediately recognize what is added, or subtracted, by Grail, and most important, what can be done with it, that could not be accomplished 40 years ago.
Servio Marin is a Franco‐Venezuelan composer (his musical compositions have been performed in Europe, America and at the "International Computer Music Conference" in Vancouver, Alberta and Hong Kong), conductor ("Orquesta Radio National " and " Coral Filarmónica ", Caracas Venezuela ‐ 1977‐1983), computer music programmer (Center for computer Research in Music and Acoustics ‐CCRMA‐ Stanford University, 1983‐ 1987), composer researcher (Groupe de Recherches Musicales ‐ GRM Maison de la Radio et Télévision Française, Paris ‐1973‐77).
Servio Marin has been a professor of music, visual arts and language in several universities in the United States and Venezuela (University of California, San Diego, National University, Stanford University, San Diego Mesa College, University of San Diego, Chapman University, Universidad Central de Venezuela and Universidad Metropolitana ‐1977 to 2000).
Servio Marin worked in Paris with Max Deutsch, École Normale de Musique, with Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel and François Bayle in the Musical Research Group of INA. At UCSD, Servio Marin worked with Brian Ferneyhough, John Silber, George Lewis and Allan Kapro, composition, improvisation, experimental music theater and "performance arts". He is also a performing musician and researcher in the field of folk music and Latin American dance.
Yula Cisneros Montoya is a Mexican born, U. S. based dancer, choreographer and dance educator. She trained and performed professionally at the State Choreographic School and Shevchenko Theater for Opera and Ballet in Kiev, Ukraine. She lived in Mozambique where she founded YucisBallet Studio and worked at the National Dance School in Maputo. She also established two dance projects: Programa de Apoio à Dança with support from the Norwegian Embassy and Pós-AMATODOS with support from the American Embassy in Maputo. She completed her BFA in Dance at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. She has taught dance courses at University of California Santa Cruz. Currently she collaborates as a dancer with Chocolate Heads Movement Band under the direction of Aleta Heys.
Katie Renati has been dancing socially since she was a child growing up in France. She discovered Latin dance when she moved to the Bay Area in 1987, and fell in love with the diversity of its music, its polyrythmes, and its cultural heritage. Katie has been sharing her passion with others, teaching street Latin dance for the last 5 years in Palo Alto. When not dancing, she is busy managing innovation projects for international companies in Silicon Valley.
FREE
Open to the Public