Sonic Anchor #32 Fundamental Frequencies
Music
Description
Description
Alvin Lucier is an American composer of experimental music and sound installations that explore acoustic phenomena and auditory perception. Much of his work is influenced by science and explores the physical properties of sound itself: resonance of spaces, phase interference between closely tuned pitches, and the transmission of sound through physical media. Lucier’s influence on younger composers and sound artists had been enormous, yet performances of his music in Hong Kong has been relatively infrequent. In this edition of Sonic Anchor, which marks our return to the McAulay Studio, we will create a room-setting in which to realize – together with the audience – Alvin Lucier’s rarely performed participatory composition Opera with Objects.
We paired Lucier’s conceptual gem with a project by Chicago-based sound artist Milad Mozari. His project, titled Study for Santur, stems from on-going research on the fundamental frequencies of the santur (Persian dulcimer), and its electronic mimicry. Programming for the piece involves Karplus-Strong and additive synthesis that interact with the immediate environment and networks. The current state of the project explores the method that the instrument is passed down and mediated from an instructor to the student, and the tuning context that relationship creates. With electronics as a sonic bed and potential gestures of playing the instrument digitally, this iteration of the project will explore an improvisation based on the Radif.
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$50
Indoor
Non-local
