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New Alves work premieres Saturday

🔗bill_alves <alves@...>

2/18/2009 9:56:59 AM

This Saturday Feb. 21 at 8:00 PM at Pomona College, the Euphoria
Quartet will premiere a new work of mine for retuned string quartet,
electronics, and video called Stellation. The concert is part of the
College's Ussachevsky festival of electronic music and will be in
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, corner of Fourth and College,
Claremont California. Admission is free!

You can see some stills and information about the piece here:
www.billalves.com/stellation.html. The open strings of the quartet
have been retuned as follows:

Violin 1 E: 21/16 E +0 660 hz
A: 7/4 A -2 439 hz
D: 9/8 D -67 283 hz
G: 3/2 G -69 188 hz
Violin 2 E: 81/64 E -63 636 hz
A: 27/16 A -65 424 hz
D: 33/32 D -218 259 hz
G: 11/8 G -220 173 hz
Viola: A: 891/512 A -12 437 hz
D: 297/256 D -14 291 hz
G: 99/64 G -16 194 hz
C: 63/32 C -98 124 hz
Cello: A: 7/4 A -2 220 hz
D: 7/6 D -4 146 hz
G: 3/2 G -69 94 hz
C: 1/1 C -71 63 hz

The concert will also include a wonderful microtonal piece by Tom
Flaherty for dozens of performers spaced around the audience with
metal and glass kitchen bowls and other various household items. I
hope to see you there! (Did I mention it's free?)

🔗Cameron Bobro <misterbobro@...>

2/20/2009 12:49:37 AM

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, "bill_alves" <alves@...> wrote:
>
> This Saturday Feb. 21 at 8:00 PM at Pomona College, the Euphoria
> Quartet will premiere a new work of mine for retuned string quartet,
> electronics, and video called Stellation. The concert is part of the
> College's Ussachevsky festival of electronic music and will be in
> Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, corner of Fourth and College,
> Claremont California. Admission is free!
>
> You can see some stills and information about the piece here:
> www.billalves.com/stellation.html. The open strings of the quartet
> have been retuned as follows:
>
> Violin 1 E: 21/16 E +0 660 hz
> A: 7/4 A -2 439 hz
> D: 9/8 D -67 283 hz
> G: 3/2 G -69 188 hz
> Violin 2 E: 81/64 E -63 636 hz
> A: 27/16 A -65 424 hz
> D: 33/32 D -218 259 hz
> G: 11/8 G -220 173 hz
> Viola: A: 891/512 A -12 437 hz
> D: 297/256 D -14 291 hz
> G: 99/64 G -16 194 hz
> C: 63/32 C -98 124 hz
> Cello: A: 7/4 A -2 220 hz
> D: 7/6 D -4 146 hz
> G: 3/2 G -69 94 hz
> C: 1/1 C -71 63 hz
>
> The concert will also include a wonderful microtonal piece by Tom
> Flaherty for dozens of performers spaced around the audience with
> metal and glass kitchen bowls and other various household items. I
> hope to see you there! (Did I mention it's free?)
>

That's great! Congratulations and hope it goes well. Some snippets on
YouTube afterward would be cool, if possible?