First set
Composers Elizabeth Brown and Frances White will present works for electronic sound and instruments, including flute, alto flute, violin, shakuhachi, and theremin. Three pieces will feature video: the first is a special screening of Watermusic, a video work by renowned artist Lothar Osterburg with music by Brown. Osterburg also contributes the video portion of excerpts from Brown’s highly-acclaimed chamber opera Rural Electrification, in which Brown will perform on the theremin. White’s work for violin, video, and electronic sound, The Old Rose Reader, with text and video by James Pritchett, will be played by virtuoso violinist/composer Mari Kimura. In addition, White will perform a special remix, designed for IPR’s 16 channel hemispherical speaker system. White’s installation piece Resonant Landscape, were featured in the soundtrack of Gus Van Sant’s award-winning film Elephant.
Second set
Ground of Being. (2000) 25 mins.
“Successive waves of sound pour out from a core sound. I hear them as manifestations of being, enticingly alive and ultimately all interrelated. Many of these sounds were recorded while I was at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center on Lake Como, ranging from a Senegalese scholar telling a story in Wolof in a resonant crypt, to a small electrical meter I found in an alley and mistook, at first, for a bird. The work was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation and Engine 27. I am grateful to all these organizations for the opportunity to realise “Ground of Being.”
During the 1960s, Annea Lockwood collaborated frequently with sound-poets, choreographers and visual artists, and created a number of works which she herself performed and later published in Source: music of the Avant-Garde, and recorded on Tangent Records and later on What next CDs. During the 1970s and ‘80s she turned her attention to performance works focused on environmental sounds, life-narratives and performance works using low-tech devices. In the 1990s, she turned to writing for acoustic instruments and voices, sometimes incorporating electronics and visual elements and producing pieces for a variety of ensembles.