AFMM Concert, Friday, April 8

For those in the New York City area, I would like to remind you of a
concert of electronic works being given by Johnny Reinhard's American
Festival of Microtonal Music, Friday, April 8, 8PM at Faust Harrison
Pianos, 205 W. 58 St., NYC.

I'm delighted to announce that this concert will include a premiere
of my new piece in the Blackjack near-just-intonation scale written
for the wonderful soprano Meredith Borden. It's basically a vocalise
with electronics in Blackjack.

There's also other great music by the "Electric Music Collective"
which consists of Timothy Polashek, Douglas Geers, "our own"
Christopher Bailey and Marcus Alessi Bittencourt.

There are several *live* instruments on this program, in addition to
the soprano for my piece, including violin, ring-modulated piano,
voice and saxophone.

From the program notes, it sounds as though these pieces will be
quite varied, exploring many new microtonal approaches to interaction
between live performers and electronics.

Don't miss it! Should be a great time. See you there!

Here's a bit more from the AFMM website:

http://www.afmm.org/noframeix.php?rurl=microfest2005.html

Concert II: Friday April 8th

Friday April 8th is a presentation of the Electric Music Collective
and features combinations of electronic and acoustic settings.
Timothy Polashek opens the evening with polymicrotonal computer
generations of HOT-TEMPERED ARPEGGIOS. Marcus Alessi Bittencourt
introduces BATHYSCAPHE for piano and live electronics. Christopher
Bailey is represented by two works, OOOGAAH: DUNGEONY SPECIMEN
SPACESHIP for computer-generated sound and samples, with scales and
tunings based on spectral analyses, and MGESAHRED EFFLEWD BQNOUSSK in
23-limit Just Intonation for baritone saxophonist Matthew Polashek
and the composer at the piano. Douglas Geers' pair of works are PEACE
PRAYER with violinist Maja Cerar and live electronics, and LUNAR
VORTEX in Just Intonation. And Joseph Pehrson's world premiere of
BLACK AND JILL featuring soprano Meredith Borden singing in a subset
of 72-tone equal temperament rounds out the program.

Joseph,

All the best for a stunning performance on Friday!
I so hate to be missing all this good stuff ...

Particularly exciting is the fact that many of these
works combine electronic and acoustic instruments;
surely a challenging, yet potentially fertile, no-man's-land
between entrenched armies of established musical
practice!

Regards,
Yahya

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Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 20:41:47 -0000
From: "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@rcn.com>
Subject: AFMM Concert, Friday, April 8

For those in the New York City area, I would like to remind you of a
concert of electronic works being given by Johnny Reinhard's American
Festival of Microtonal Music, Friday, April 8, 8PM at Faust Harrison
Pianos, 205 W. 58 St., NYC.

I'm delighted to announce that this concert will include a premiere
of my new piece in the Blackjack near-just-intonation scale written
for the wonderful soprano Meredith Borden. It's basically a vocalise
with electronics in Blackjack.

There's also other great music ...

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--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Yahya Abdal-Aziz" <yahya@m...> wrote:
>
> Joseph,
>
> All the best for a stunning performance on Friday!
> I so hate to be missing all this good stuff ...
>
> Particularly exciting is the fact that many of these
> works combine electronic and acoustic instruments;
> surely a challenging, yet potentially fertile, no-man's-land
> between entrenched armies of established musical
> practice!
>
> Regards,
> Yahya
>

***Thanks so much, Yahya... I appreciate it...

JP