1996

Improvisation for voice and live electronics.

Improvised music for voice and live electronics.

Excerpt from CNMAT concert, 11.14.1996

Shafqat Ali Khan is an exuberant improviser and well grounded in the khyal style of North Indian classical vocal music. David Wessel is a computer musician and creates software for improvisational contexts in which he performs.

Excerpt from CNMAT concert, 11.14.1996

Shafqat Ali Khan is an exuberant improviser and well grounded in the khyal style of North Indian classical vocal music. David Wessel is a computer musician and creates software for improvisational contexts in which he performs.

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

Excerpt from CNMAT concert -- Strings and Machines

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.