Monday, September 24, 2012 7:30 pm, Ensemble Room

MAGDA MAYA & TONY BUCK

Improvisational piano and percussion interplay by two leading activists from Europe
Supported by the Berlin Senate Cultural Affairs Department

Monday, October 8, 2012 7:30 pm, Ensemble Room

KEITH KIRCHOFF & ERIC GLICK RIEMAN

Duo featuring prepared acoustic piano and prepared Rhodes electric in tandem

Monday, October 22, 2012 7:30 pm, Ensemble Room

BRYAN EUBANKS & CAT LAMB

Bryan Eubanks and Catherine Lamb will present a new work in progress involving tones arrived at through subtractive synthesis of white noise, shifting filters on white noise, recorded natural environments, viola, etc., which engage in a durational space attempting to create a sonic blur.

Funded in part through New Music USA's MetLife Creative Connections program.

Monday, February 4, 2013 7:30 pm, Ensemble Room

LUCIANO CHESSA

Composer and Musicologist Luciano Chessa will introduce/contextualize and perform a few of his recent pieces, all instigated by his research on Italian futurist Luigi Russolo, the creator of the “art of noises” (1913).

Monday, February 25, 2013 7:30 pm, Ensemble Room

BILL HSU

Bill Hsu will perform a set of audiovisual improvisations with James Fei (reeds) and Gino Robair (percussion, electronics), followed by a presentation on physics-based simulations and other techniques used in the performance software.

Monday, March 18, 2013 7:30 pm, Ensemble Room

GREGORY LENCZYCKI

Los Angeles based composer and CCM alumnus Gregory Lenczycki will present a new work for laptop and electronics. Described as “always poetic” and “twittering with excitable circuitry,” Lenczycki’s work explores the rhythms of space and the architecture of sound.