LIVE SURROUND SESSIONS with
CURTIS ROADS w Brian O'Reilly
YASUANO TONE
FLORIAN HECKER
At : RECOMBINANT MEDIA LABS in San Francisco
FRIDAY, APRIL 14TH AT 9PM
SATURDAY , APRIL 15TH AT 8PM & 11PM
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Noise Symposium at SFAI - April 14th 5pm
Florian Hecker, Curtis Roads, Yasunao Tone
German sound artist Florian Hecker has been working with computer music
independently and in collaboration with other artists such as Russell
Haswell, Peter Rehberg, Marcus Schmickler, and Yasunao Tone since 1996.
Hecker’s works emphasize the connections between recent developments
and historical trends in computer music and related technology. Often
working closely with software engineers and scientists, his recent
productions incorporate psychoacoustic effects that disorient spatial
perception. His full-length solo recording, Sun Pandämonium, received
the Award of Distinction at the Prix Ars Electronica 2003. His work has
been included in Off the Record, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de
Paris, Paris; 3rd Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Max
Pechstein Förderpreis, Kunstsammlungen der Städtischen Museen, Zwickau;
2nd International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg; Mutations,
TN Probe Gallery, Tokyo; and Ausgeträumt, Secession, Vienna. Recent
performance venues include MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA; KW, Institute
for Contemporary Art, Berlin; CCA Kitakushu Notam Forum, Oslo; ICA,
London; Edvard Smilgis Theater Museum and Music Museum, Riga; Ars
Electronica, Linz; All Tomorrow’s Parties, Chamber SandsSonic Light,
Paradiso, Amsterdam; Medienturm, Graz; Kunsthalle Baden, Baden; Kyushu
Institute of Design, Fukuoka; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Strasbourg;
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; ICMC 2002, ICMC, Konsthallen,
Gothenburg; Sonar 2002, MACBA, Barcelona; Royal Festival Hall, London;
Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt;
2001 Purple Institut, Paris; Bla, Oslo; Numero Festival, Lisbon; CCA
Kitakyushu Mega-Wave; International Triennale of Contemporary Art,
Yokohama; and Venice Biennale, 49th International Exhibition of Art.
Curtis Roads teaches in the Department of Music at the University of
California, Santa Barbara. He has recently led master classes at the
Australian National Conservatory, Melbourne, and at the Prometeo
Laboratorio, Parma. He is co-organizer of international workshops on
musical signal processing in Sorrento, Capri, and Santa Barbara.
Certain compositions of his feature granular and pulsar synthesis,
methods he developed for generating sound from acoustical particles. He
has recently developed the Creatophone, a system for spatial projection
of sound in concert. Another new invention of his is the Creatovox,
developed in collaboration with Alberto de Campo, is an expressive
instrument for virtuoso performance that is based on the synthesis of
sound particles. His composition Clang-Tint (1994) was commissioned by
the Japan Ministry of Culture (Bunka-cho) and the Kunitachi College of
Music, Tokyo. His music is available on compact discs produced by the
MIT Media Laboratory, Wergo, OR, and Mode. A co-founder of the
International Computer Music Association in 1979, he was editor of
Computer Music Journal (The MIT Press) from 1978 to 1989 and associate
editor from 1990 to 2000. His writings include over a hundred
monographs, research articles, reports, and reviews. Recent books
include the textbook The Computer Music Tutorial; Musical Signal
Processing; and Microsound, which explores the aesthetics and
techniques of composition with sound particles.
Yasunao Tone was one of the first Japanese artists active in composing
“events” and improvisational music. He has been part of the Fluxus
movement since 1962 and has also been an organizer and participant in
many important music and performance groups such as Group Ongaku,
Hi-Red Center, and Team Random (the first computer art group organized
in Japan). Primarily a composer, Tone has worked in many media,
creating pieces for electronics, computer systems, film, radio, and
television, and environmental art. He was the recipient of the Prix Ars
Electronica Golden Nica prize in Digital Music in 2002. Since coming to
the United States in 1972, Tone has composed numerous scores for the
Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has given solo concerts at the
Kitchen, the Experimental Intermedia Foundation, Roulette, P.S.1,
Guggenheim Museum SOHO, Chicago Art Club, Metronom, among other places;
and has participated in numerous Fluxus concerts. Since 1976, Tone has
been designing musical compositions as a compound of cultural studies,
post-structuralist theories, ancient Oriental texts, and musical sounds
generated by electronic means. One of these works, Geography and Music,
was commissioned by the American Dance Festival for Merce Cunningham’s
dance Roadrunners. Since 1990, Tone has participated in exhibitions and
performances at the Hörspiele Festival, Cologne; the Audio Art Festival
at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Venezia Biennale; the Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis; and at the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago. Tone has also participated in Japanese Art after 1945 at the
Guggenheim Soho and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Bitstream
and Pulse at the Whitney; the Yokohama Triennale, Mutations, Tokyo; Do
It, at Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil; the New Music Festival at Wesleyan
University; the Lovebytes Festival, UK, Sonar; the Ars Electronica
Festival and Spectacle Vivant at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and
the Sonic Light Festival in Amsterdam.