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MicroFest in Claremont California this Sunday

🔗bill_alves <alves@...>

5/4/2007 9:55:24 AM

MICROFEST 2007: HEAVY METAL! GONGS & GUITARS

Sunday May 6 8:00 pm

Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, Pomona College

Corner of College and Fourth, Claremont

Free admission

For more information on this and other MicroFest events, see http://www.microfest.org/

Program:

Lou Harrison: In Honor of the Divine Mr. Handel
with the Harvey Mudd College American Gamelan (in just intonation) and John Schneider, JI
guitar

John Schneider: Men are Men and Mountains are Mountains
Schneider's homage to James Tenney for retuned electric guitar

Bill Alves: Metalloid
For 2 retuned synthesizers, 2 electric guitars, clarinet, saxophone, electric bass, and
drums, playing in a 3/7 JI lattice

Bill Alves: Concerto for Guitar and American Gamelan

Greg Schiemer: Mandala 6
For four bluetooth cell phones specially programmed to play tones of a scale of Al-Farabi,
and whirled around on strings

Special thanks to the Harvey Mudd College Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Garrett Fund and the Pomona College Music Department for their support of this event.