Assistant Professor, Music Department, Georgia Institute of Technology
25 player version:
1-1-1-1 / 1-1-1-1 / 3 perc /
4-4-3-2-1 / 3 perc
15 player version:
3-3-3-3-3 (strings)
live electronics:
audience light sticks, video cameras, computer processing in Max/Jitter, computer-controlled multi-colored lights, video projection
Duration: 10 minutes
Glimmer engages the concert audience as musical
collaborators who do not just listen to the performance but actively shape it.
Each audience member is given a battery-operated light stick which he or she
waves back and forth over the course of the piece. Computer software analyzes
live video of the audience and sends instructions to each musician via
multi-colored lights mounted on each player’s stand.
Glimmer was commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra,
Steven Sloane, music director, Robert Beaser, artistic director, Dennis Russell
Davies, conductor laureate. This work was funded in part by the Composer Assistance Program
of the American Music Center.
Additional thanks to the Columbia University Computer Music Center
(Brad Garton, director) and Akademie
Schloss Solitude (Jean-Baptiste Joly, director).
Glimmer exists in two versions: for 25-player chamber orchestra and approximately 600 audience members; or for 16-player string orchestra and approximately 200 audience members.
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