soundSCAPE facilitates the flowering of new music and the exchange of ideas and culture between musicians of tomorrow’s generation.
Session Two on campus: June 19-July 7 The schedule will include daily group meetings, individual music and curation development coachings, performances on and off campus, as well as sessions focused on deep listening, improvisation and movement, career development, public speaking, Alexander technique and Pilates practices, collaboration, right relations, and diversity/equity/inclusion. The Evolution: Classical experience concludes with a concert presentation of participant’s curations.
The Colorado College Summer Music Festival, now in its 38th season, provides the highest caliber, inclusive educational experience for pre-professional musicians, connecting them with preeminent performance faculty from around the country.
Transplanted Roots: Percussion Research Symposium is designed to convene researchers and professionals working in the ever-changing field of contemporary percussion.
Session One online via Zoom: May 16-27
Over the course of ten 90-minute Zoom meetings participant entities will have the opportunity to engage the mentor/participant group in a “talk and play” presentation of their proposed curations.
Schedule
6 pm: Screening of documentary film Drumming in Magic Time
7:30 pm: Concert
Research team: Aiyun Huang (PI), Tim Roth, Tyler Cunningham, HoiTong Keung, Bevis Ng, Matti Pulkki
Host: Mari Kimura
https://www.arts.uci.edu/venue/experimental-media-performance-lab-xmpl
Live event rescheduled for recording to broadcast
Using gesture as the connecting tissue and active ingredient integrating percussion and technology, Aiyun will take you on a journey exploring how gesture is used to trigger sound, enact dance choreography and tell a story about a little man who lives inside the bass drum!
Program:
Windward by David Bithell (2018)
Iron Bird by Mari Kimura (2021, Canadian Premiere)
Aphasia by Mark Applebaum (2009)
Dialogues: Analysis and Performance is a symposium dedicated to the analysis and performance of contemporary music, highlighting scholarship and artistry that engages with these areas.
Connecting the percussionists from Taiwan and abroad through online concerts, hoping to accumulate percussion energy and share percussion music to Taiwan and the world.
the passage of time… brings together performers from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico for a virtual performance of two works: David Bithell’s Subterranean, a technological exploration of isolation, uncertainty, and the hope for connection – and Frederic Rzewski’s Coming Together – a work that 50 years after its composition in reaction to the deadly riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, remains an enduring and prescient lens through which to view our world.
Featuring percussionist Aiyun Huang and violinist Mark Fewer
