source file: mills2.txt Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 10:27:29 -0700 Subject: WireWorks in Concert From: hajdu@uni-muenster.de (Georg Hajdu) Concert with microtonal and interactive computer music ****************************************************** Ensemble WireWorks will perfom a program with microtonal and interactive music by Georg Hajdu, Belinda Reynolds, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Manfred Stahnke and Frederic Rzewski on October 24, 1996 at 8.00 PM Concert hall: C.u.b.a Achtermannstr. 10-12 48143 Muenster Germany The program includes: Two Cartoons for synthesizer and computer by Georg Hajdu (in 17 TET). Multitudinous Voices for mezzo-soprano, keyboard and interactive computer by Belinda Reynolds (software written in MAX) Intermezzo for narrator, synthetic choir, keyboards and interactive computer by Georg Hajdu. (The harmonic and melodic material is based on an FFT of telephone hiss. The extracted pseudo-harmonic spectra have a random set of microtones that don't match any just or tempered scale). Studie II by Karlheinz Stockhausen. This piece was recreated by students of the Muenster School of Music with modern computer technology based on Stockhausen's instructions given in the preface of his score. This piece represents an early attempt to unify spectral and tonal principles. For this, Stockhausen used a tempered scale with a step size of pow(5, 1/25). Partch Harp for harp and microtonal synthesizer by Manfred Stahnke. Manfred Stahnke, professor of composition at the Hamburg School of Music, uses a tempered scale with pow(1.9560685, 1/12) for the synthesizer that approximates just 5/4 and just 7/4. Lacking the interval of the octave, this scale is characterized by a constant "tonal shift." The harp in turn has stable octaves and just major thirds and minor sevenths as well. Coming Together by Frederic Rzewski was originally scored for ensemble with narrator and varied instruments that pick notes in an improvisatory fashion from a pentatonic sequence of notes. In our version for keyboard and interactive electronics, the sequence is performed by the keyboard player while the computer--following the Rzewski score--simulates the actions of the improvising instrumentalists. The performers are: Georg Hajdu, electronics Jennifer Hymer, keyboard Annette Kleine-Rademacher, mezzo-soprano Christiane Steffens, harp Bettina Stucky, narration More information on WireWorks will soon be available at http://www.uni-muenster.de/Musikhochschule/Dozenten/Hajdu/WireWorks.html Send questions to: hajdu@uni-muenster.de Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 01:56 +0200 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA14900; Sat, 12 Oct 1996 01:58:02 +0200 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA14902 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id QAA09869; Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:57:58 -0700 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:57:58 -0700 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu