World Music Institute & Thomas Buckner present

Interpretations | 15th season

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 2004 8:00 PM

Conrad Harris
Performs new works by composers of the Sonic Arts Union

David Wessel
Premiering his new electronic solo work Singularities

Merkin Concert Hall - 129 W. 67th Street
Box Office (212) 501-3330 Concert info (212) 627-0990
$10 / $7 or TDF/V

Interpretations, which features leading voices in contemporary music and multimedia, will continue on March 18th with violinist Conrad Harris and electronic artist David Wessel. Harris, concertmaster of the S.E.M. Ensemble, will perform an all-premiere program of works for violin and electronics by the four composers - Robert Ashley, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, and Gordon Mumma - of the historic Sonic Arts Union, an influential American composers collective, active from 1966 to 1976, which focused on creating and presenting live electronic music. Harris will present Ashley's TRIO III: Yes, but would you want your sister to play one?, Lucier's Tapper, David Behrman's Protests 1917 - 2004, and Mumma's Spectral Portrait: YAWAWOT. He will also premiere The Gerald Ford March, a new work by Paul Reller, a professor of composition and computer music at University of S. Florida who has been influenced by the music of the Sonic Arts Union. California electronic artist David Wessel will present Singularities, a new large-scale computer-based solo work featuring custom designed controllers by Donald Buchla and Lippold Haken.