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New Canons in Murray Hill
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New Canons in Murray Hill

New York City

Sat, October 23, 2021 2:00 PM, EDT

Capacity
10 of 30 spots still available
Vaccine policy
Bring proof of COVID vaccination
Testing policy
COVID testing not required
Indoors
This is an indoor event
Mask policy
Masks are required for the entire groupmuse
Social distancing
Social distancing is required
If you feel sick, stay home
Drinking policy
Don't bring your own drinks
Wheelchair access
Not wheelchair accessible

This is a groupmuse

A live concert in a living room, backyard, or another intimate space. They're casual and friendly, hosted by community members.

Hosts

We'll keep the floor-to-ceiling doors wide open into the backyard space, so there'll be plenty of fresh air and breeze at this groupmuse!

We usually try to ignore latency (the delay between live sound and transmitted sound) in virtual concerts...but what if it's an integral part of the music?

Join us and American Composers Orchestra (ACO) on Oct 23rd for a hybrid in-person and virtual concert. We'll explore latency with two composers who experiment with latency and technology in their music, and a third interactive work through which we welcome one another into a collective landscape in which all sounds become music.

Ray Lustig's Latency Canons calls for multiple quartets and an orchestra to perform together while spread out across the world. Trevor New uses technology to manipulate latency for remote musicians in his newly commissioned work, Cohere.

Pauline Oliverosā€˜ Environmental Dialogue invites us to hear and respond to sounds near and far. All Possible Music by Chris Kallmyer is a collection of speculative scores that describe all of the music that could ever happen. A symphonious, surround-sound performance, Polyphonic Interlace by Raquel Acevedo Klein invites participants to travel amidst a sea of voices, emerging from several directions, as attendees are invited to play the pieceā€™s musical tracks from their smartphones.

Reserve your spot ($25 for this special event) to join for Bergamot Quartet's performance. There will be video and audio livestreamed from the other venues.

Doors open at 2:00pm and close at 2:25pm. Music will begin promptly at 2:15pm.

This groupmuse is co-presented by ACO and Groupmuse Foundation

What's the music?

Bergamot Quartet String Quartet
Trevor New Viola, Violin
Peter Askim Conductor
American Composers Orchestra

Raquel Acevedo Klein -- Polyphonic Interlace (2021)

Chris Kallmyer -- All Possible Music (2019)

Ray Lustig -- Latency Canons (2013)

Trevor New -- Cohere 1 (2021)

Soloists:
Diego Tejedor, Violin | Argentina
Bernd Keul, Bass | Germany
Gaurab Chatterjee, Hand percussion | India
Jocelyn Clark, Gayageum | South Korea
Patti Kilroy, Violin | Los Angeles
Trevor New, Viola | New York City
Haruna Walusimbi, Kalimba | Uganda

Pauline Oliveros -- Environmental Dialogue (1974)

About the pieces:
Ray Lustig'sĀ Latency Canons, commissioned by ACO in 2013 and developed over a series of workshop performances before being premiered at Carnegie Hall that year,Ā calls for multiple string quartets and ACO to perform together while spread across the world. The New York Times described the piece as, ā€œa surreally beautiful, contrapuntal soundscape.ā€ Lustig says, ā€œIn the spirit of using the problem as its own solution,ā€ÆLatency Canonsā€Æincorporates technologyā€™s limitations as the central idea. Musicians in different places play simple lines together using ordinary video-conferencing software, and the random blips freezes, and delays themselves create a counterpoint of beautiful, unexpected relationships, like echoes in a digital cathedral that wraps around the world.Ā Latency Canonsā€Æposes the question of how we make music together in our world, how that may be changing, and what this will mean for the musical experience.ā€ÆOur technology is drawing us closer and closer together in so many ways, and the attitude of this work is one of communion over distances.ā€

Trevor NewĀ uses technology to manipulate latency for remote musicians inĀ Cohere 1. New says, ā€œI want the audience to experience the ways we are connected by creating a digital space for us to see, hear, and feel interactions with others, whether they are next door or around the world.Ā To achieve this experience, I am using Clean FeedĀ to achieve low-latency performances. With it, I capture sound being played from different locations around the world and remove the latency effect by matching up the sounds into a single downbeat.ā€Ā 

Pauline Oliveros' Environmental DialogueĀ invites the audience to hear and respond to sounds within their own space as well as the communal space shared by participants near and far. Oliveros published Environmental Dialogue in her Sonic Meditations collection in 1974. To perform the work, participants gather at a specified location. Then, Oliveros writes, ā€œas each person becomes aware of the field of sounds from the environment, each person individually and gradually begins to reinforce the pitch of any one of the sound sources that has attracted their attention.ā€¦The result of this meditation will probably produce a resonance of the environment.ā€

A surround-sound music experience, Raquel Acevedo Kleinā€™s Polyphonic Interlace invites participants to travel amidst a sea of voices emerging from several directions. All are welcome to play the pieceā€™s musical tracks from their smartphones or speaker devices following a countdown at the start of the event. Music made entirely of Kleinā€™s voice emanates from the house speakers and participantsā€™ devices, transforming into a sonic tapestry of stories from across New York City at the cusp of the reopening. The tracks can be accessed at polyphonicinterlace.com.

Chris Kallmyerā€™s All Possible MusicĀ is a collection of speculative scores that describe all of the music that could ever happen. The piece explores the contextual nature of music, encompassing both real and imagined sounds to describe a world that is mundane, spectacular, sometimes humorous, and always alive: a blissful symphony for an audience of careful listeners; dance floor hits in a cabin set deep in the woods; visionary drum machines that heal the earth and its people.

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