We would like to welcome you to the second in a series of intimate house concerts hosted by Bill Thompson, Brent Fariss, and Clark Crawford. In this particular series (the loft series) we will be following a standard format of one installation followed by two solo performances. The solo performances will be performed from the loft above and out of sight of the audience seated below. We have always struggled with the all too common phenomenon of audience members looking at what is being performed at the expense of listening to what is being performed. Through this series we are hoping to refocus our energies back into the act of listening as a primary vehicle of experiencing our surroundings.

Though No One Invites Them, The Locusts Return - Brent Fariss

I have always had a fascination with the sounds of the cicadas, crickets, locusts, and other various creatures that are heard during the summer. These sounds have always given me a sort of comfort in the way they completely surround you. I spent the last summer documenting this…crawling around on cliffs, standing alone at night in the woods, running across busy streets armed with only my minidisc recorder. The field recordings were then mixed and lightly treated to create a listening environment to experience one last time, before summer is gone. opera concrete (act III, scene 1)

Resources for Self-direction - Travis Weller

This solo piece for violin and electronics is a structured improvisation in which the performer responds to semi-random sound events derived from samples gathered during the performance. The score is open notation, and at times only instructs the violinist to respond to the generated sounds as if they were a fellow performer in a free improvisation. Lisa, the software which manipulates violin sounds in real-time, uses microtonal pitch tuning, subtractive synthesis, and shifts of sample locations and the stereo image. Props go to Kaffe Matthews for pioneering some of these techniques.

tiotm - Bill Thompson

in my solo sets i try to be as present and conscious in each moment as possible in order to achieve this i plan as little as i can about what i am going to play preferring to force myself into the difficult position of not just improvising but allowing what is waiting to be expressed to unfold according to its own nature

until i start playing i have no more idea of what is going to occur than the audience in this way i am tracing both a musical development as well as my own conscious attention as represented in sound

dedicated to mary dowell 

Presented by:

ThomFariCraw:
modern music initiative

Dedicated to the creation and presentation of the highest caliber of modern experimental music.

In lieu of a loft concert in October, Epistrophy Arts and the New Music Co-op will present a large ensemble of local musicians performing Terry Riley's 1964 composition "In C" and new works by local composers. The concert will take place on October 19th, at Ceremony Hall.

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