Technosonics November 19, 2010

The McIntire Department of Music and the Virginia Center for Computer Music present ""TechnoSonics XI: Mediated Nature"" at 8pm on Friday, November 19th, 2010 at Live Arts. TechnoSonics is an annual program that showcases digital music and intermedia.

Since 1998 the TechnoSonics festival has brought cutting edge performers and composers to Charlottesville, creating a lively mix with home-grown talent. Based in the Live Arts Theater in downtown Charlottesville, and in Old Cabell Hall on the campus of UVa, the festival has featured visiting artists such as Chris Burns, F. Gerard Errante, Brad Garton, John Gibson, Bruce Mahin, James Mobberly, Charles Nichols, Douglas Repetto, Madeleine Shapiro, Barry Truax, Kojiro Umezaki, and many others.

The theme of this years program, ""TechnoSonics XI: Mediated Nature"", is a natural for the dynamic faculty, staff and students who work in the Virginia Center for Computer Music (VCCM). These composers often explore the sounds of natural environment. ""A lot of the sounds we love as people and are comfortable with-- the ocean, the wind-- have a high degree of acoustic noise."" - Matthew Burtner
“I love using technology to embrace the organic,” Shatin says. “Working with the sounds of the world can lead one to experiences one never anticipated.”

The Virginia Center for Computer Music was founded by Judith Shatin in 1987 and it has grown into a dynamic program with scores of graduate students and faculty exploring all facets of acoustic and computer sound and intermedia collaborations.

""Judith Shatin and her colleagues, Matthew Burtner and Ted Coffey, want to dispel a common misperception that technology aims to replace acoustic instruments. At the VCCM, they’ve never met a sound they didn’t like. Whether it’s acoustic, electric or organic, all sound offers creative potential, they say. Their collective open ear hears a sonic continuum, where acoustic instruments and computers work in tandem to engage people with the world around them—and it’s vaulted the VCCM to the top tier of music technology programs, with its applicant pool and cutting-edge research comparable to better-funded programs, such as those at Princeton and Columbia. With faculty that regularly win international music competitions and major commissions and courses that generate long waitlists, it’s a small operation with a big reputation."" - Laura Parsons, Virginia Alumni Magazine

This is an Arts Enhancement Event supported by the Provost’s Office to increase the awareness of and support for the arts at the University of Virginia.

For more information please call the McIntire Department of Music at 434.924.3052.

Official Website: http://artsandsciences.virginia.edu/music/concertsevents/pressreleases/10-11/101119technosonics.html