[dorkbotatl-announce] thurs Apr 3rd @ 8 pm: sonic generator concert

[Jason Freeman]

Stay tuned for information on the next dorkbot meeting on April 16th.  
In the meantime, we hope you can join us for a concert by Georgia  
Tech's ensemble in residence, Sonic Generator, next week!

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Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble in residence, Sonic Generator,  
presents
their final concert of the season:

Thursday, April 3rd at 8 p.m.
Georgia Tech Alumni House
190 North Avenue
http://www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu

Admission is free and no reservations are required.

Nico Muhly's Pillaging Music (2005), for percussion, piano, and  
electronic
sound, mixes together several of the composer’s musical influences, from
Boulez to Bjork. Henrik Strindberg's Cheap Thrills (1993), for alto  
flute, bass
clarinet, percussion, piano, and computer, is a composed improvisation  
based on
a solo by Bennie Maupin, bass clarinetist with Miles Davis. The iconic  
American
waitress inspired Eric Moe for his Let Me Tell U About R Specials  
(2005), a
lively work for flute, electronically manipulated flute sounds, and  
dialogue.
Ozge Samanci and Geoff Thomas, doctoral students in Georgia Tech’s  
Digital
Media program, provide a stop-motion animation to accompany the  
performance.

Eric Chasalow's Suspicious Motives (1999) stretches our ears as  
Chasalow pays
homage to his mentor, Mario Davidovsky, by referencing Davidovsky's  
seminal
electronic work, Synchronisms No. 6, in this piece for flute,  
clarinet, violin,
cello, and tape. Karen Tanaka's lyrical The Song of Songs (1996), for  
cello and
electronics, draws inspiration from the Song of Solomon of the Old  
Testament.
Atlanta composer Nick Demos' passing vanities… (2008), for violin,  
clarinet,
and DJ, employs the modern pop and hip-hop techniques of sampling and  
remixing.
The concert concludes with Randall Woolf’s BYOD (2000), for sextet,
electronic sound, and video: a tongue-in-cheek take on the late-night
infomercial.

Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble in residence,  
explores
the ways in which technology can transform how we create, perform, and  
listen
to music. The ensemble, comprised of six of the top classical  
musicians in
Atlanta, works closely with Georgia Tech faculty in the GVU Center and  
the
Music Department to present concerts that bring cutting-edge  
technologies to
the world of contemporary classical music.

Sonic Generator is sponsored by the GVU Center, which seeks to advance  
the
state of the art of the interaction between people, computing  
machines, and
information. The concert series is organized by the Music Department  
in the
College of Architecture, which pushes the boundaries of musical  
expression and
creativity through technology.