We would like to welcome you to the season finale of a series of intimate house concerts hosted by Bill Thompson, Brent Fariss, and Clark Crawford. For this particular show we will be changing the format a bit to an installation followed by two duo performances. The 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.

Tonight’s performance features our mentors from SWT, Russell Riepe and David Pino. It also celebrates over a year of loft series and the end of our first season. We will be back next year. Thanks to everyone who has made the loft series a success. It has been a blast!!!

Installation for Guitars - Bill Thompson / Brent Fariss

Returning to our roots, as this Loft Series is sort of a homecoming for us, we decided on an installation involving our first instrument, the guitar. The installation will involve dry and treated acoustic guitars played through 9 speakers surrounding the audience. Focusing on the unique timbral qualities of the steel string, it should prove to be an interesting environment. 

september - Brent Fariss / Bill Thompson

Although Brent and I have know each other for years, performed on each other's pieces, written works for each other, and played within the same ensembles, until last month's AMODA Performance Series, we had never written a piece together. We enjoyed it so much, we decided to write a complimentary work for tonight’s concert. The last work (August) employed a modified rondo form with an inverted climax pattern, focusing on spectral interplays between the electronics and bass, complex timbres creating combination tones, and the contrasting of dry and treated field recordings relating to white noise. September will make use of similar elements (field recordings, white noise, combination tones, timbral interplay) but with a completely different form…in many ways it acts as a polarization of August's elements and design. - bt

Bill Thompson - electronics, cymbals, field recordings
Brent Fariss - prepared contrabass, electronics

Cruzando la Frontera - Russell Riepe

Cruzando la Frontera, "crossing the frontier," for Clarinet and Live Electronics enters a desert world. The first movement is entitled "La tarde sin manana," which means "the evening without the morrow." The restless second movement, "La flecha sin blanco," or "the arrow without a target," seeks resolution. The third movement, "Por cosas lejanas," or "for things way off in the distance," is based on the Kol Nidre, the Jewish prayer of atonement.

Dr. David Pino - clarinet
Dr. Russell Riepe - live electronics

Presented by:

ThomFariCraw:
modern music initiative

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

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