FW: Talk at CNMAT Thurs, 3/4, 5 pm: Composer Ronald Bruce Smith

I don't know Ronald Bruce Smith, but I thought this might be interesting to
some....

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From: Richard Andrews <richard@cnmat.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:10:02 -0800
Subject: Talk at CNMAT Thurs, 3/4, 5 pm: Composer Ronald Bruce Smith

The Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) presents:

Ronald Bruce Smith
Composer

Thursday, March 4
5 pm
CNMAT
Free

Ronald Bruce Smith, a graduate of the doctoral program in music
composition at UC Berkeley, will demonstrate certain techniques of
guitar playing and composition from the past century or so that are
not found in orchestration texts. The discussion will explore topics
of techniques idiomatic to the guitar such as alternate tunings,
cross string techniques, harmonics and percussive uses of the
instrument as well as less conventional methods of sound production
with the instrument. Further discussion will include using the guitar
in mixed instrumental ensembles and guitar with electronics.

This event is part of CNMAT's 2004 Guitar Innovators Series -- other
events can be found here:
http://cnmat.cnmat.berkeley.edu/GIG/

CNMAT is located at 1750 Arch Street, Berkeley, CA and is wheelchair
accessible
Map and directions: http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/Home/WhereisCNMAT.html
CNMAT Calendar: http://www.cnmat.Berkeley.EDU/Calendar

> I don't know much about Ronald Bruce Smith

He interviewwed for a job (teaching) at Columbia way back in '98 or
thenabouts.

His music seemed to fall into the "spectral" camp (of, originally, French
folk : Tristan Murial, G. Grisey, then Jonathan Harvey, etc.)

Very elegant, pretty stuff.

I don't know if I heard any of his guitar works though.

c Bailey