Music

Program:
Lee Cheng and iLOrk: Canonic (2018)
Remy Siu and Russell Wallace: Qanimts (2014)
Paul Lansky: In the Moment (2002); Pattern’s Pattern (2001); Ride (2000)
Vanissa Law: Exhaled Rhyme (2014)

American composer Paul Lansky is a pioneer in the use of computers in music synthesis and analysis. His earliest work dates back to the mid 1960’s. Many of his works involve the use of speech and the reprocessing of the sounds of everyday life. In 2000 he was the subject of a documentary film made for European television, My Cinema for the Ears. He is Professor of Music Emeritus at Princeton University. Pattern’s Patterns first appeared in a 2-channel version on the Bridge CD Alphabet Book. In this multi-channel version, short segments of speech, letters and numbers are randomly distributed within a rigid rhythmic framework. Remy Siu and Russell Wallace’s Qanimts is a “Salish Beatbox” that uses Salish consonants as its dominant sound material. Vocalist and composer Vanissa Law’s Exhale rounds out an evening that focuses on the fragmentation of human speech. The iLOrk “laptop orchestra” led by composer Lee Cheng will improvise to a set of animated graphical score, enveloping the audience in an electronic spatial canon.