6:00pm Wednesday 22 May 2013
City University Performance Space
St John Street, London EC1V 4PB
A concert exploring the possibilities created from interaction between live performance and digital technology. Steen-Andersen’s work turns a sonic microscope on the voice, amplifying and recontextualising phonemes into musical phrases while Ablinger transcribes the microvariations of a blank vinyl record for solo piano. Prins pits the live performer against a virtual avatar, blending the acoustic and digital together in a new reality. In Rodgers’ piece, a handson exploration of the sonic possibilities of percussion is captured and transformed by live sampling, the electronic processing enhancing and augmenting the live performance.
Simon Steen-Andersen • In Her Frown
Peter Ablinger • Piano and record
Stefan Prins • Piano Hero 1
Stefan Prins • Piano Hero 2
Georgia Rodgers • A to B
Mark Knoop, piano and voice
Serge Vuille, percussion and voice
Newton Armstrong, electronics