CNMAT with support from Silicon Graphics, Inc. presents, the world premiere performance of four compositions for cello and interactive electronics.

- Cellist Hugh Livingston is a doctoral student at UCSD specializing in the performance of contemporary music; the composers are students and faculty at UCSD's Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) and at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at UC Berkeley. Mr. Livingston has commissioned these works and collaborated with the composers over the last year.

- UCSD faculty composer Peter Otto presents the pioneering use of TrANSIT, a six-channel sound spatialization system which whirls gusts of sound around the audience, triggered by the cellist in the middle.

- Mark Danks presents a multimedia work involving projected video on a giant screen. A Silicon Graphics workstation generates abstract images in real-time based on the musical material played by the cellist.

- Composer Guy Garnett from CNMAT at UC Berkeley has composed Interactions 3, one of a series of pieces for instruments with computer-controlled digital sound processing. The sound is distorted, phased, echoed and reverberated as elegant melodic figures are spun by the cellist.

- Joseph "Butch" Rovan's "clear and cool nights" draws on 'found' sound material, reminiscent of the Cocteau film "Orpheus," where the poet receives his inspiration via the radio. The cellist is involved in a verbal and musical dialogue with these sounds, which evolve into an industrial groove with the cellist performing rap-style vocals.

These exciting compositions are the result of a year-long collaboration between the artists and represent the cutting edge in music and music technology being developed in California. The tour and a compact disc to be released fall 1996 are sponsored by Inter-Campus Arts, a UC granting organization.