The CHIME Studio presents CHIMEFest 2019, a meeting of electronics performers and improvisers from around the globe, with leading artists and researchers from the United States, the UK, and Europe.
Events on May 2 and 3 include concerts at 7pm each evening, as well as talks by local artists and guests during the day. See the full schedule below for details.
CHIMEFest 2019 is a collaboration between the CHIME Studio, the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, and the Arts, Science, and Culture Initiative.
Schedule:
Thursday, May 2, 2019
10am-2pm – Talks Session 1
Anne La Berge –Devices
Jeff Snyder – Snyderphonics Genera: a DSP Eurorack module for rapid hardware prototyping
PA Tremblay – Fluid Corpus Manipulation: blurring taxonomies through creative convergences of practices
Alex Harker – FrameLib: A DSP framework for arbitrary size frame processing with arbitrary sub-sample accurate timing
7pm – Concert 1
Utter written and performed by Anne La Berge
Rage Thormbones – Weston Olencki and Matt Barbier, trombones
- Matrix (for George Lewis) by Sam Pluta
- new work by Baldwin Giang
Improvisation Set I – Lauren Sarah Hays – solo performance
Improvisation Set II – Ted Moore/Katherine Young/Weston Olencki/Matt Barbier
- Ted Moore – electronics
- Katherine Young – bassoon and electronics
- Weston Olencki – analog synthesizer
- Matt Barbier – trombone
Friday, May 3, 2019
3pm-6pm – Talks Session 2
Sam Pluta – LMI Version 4 – A New Approach to Multi-Dimensional Performance Software
Ted Moore – New Approaches to Machine Listening and Machine Learning based Composition in SuperCollider
Lauren Hayes –Beyond Skill Acquisition: Improvisation, Interdisciplinarity, and Enactive Music Cognition
6pm – reception
7pm – Concert 2
Improvisation Set III – Pedro Lopes – solo with turntables
Katie Schoepflin Jimoh, clarinet and bass clarinet
- La rupture inéluctable by PA Tremblay
- Fluence by Alex Harker
- new work by Darlene Castro
Improvisation Set IV – Jeff Snyder/Anne La Berge/Sam Pluta/Ben Lamar Gay
- Jeff Snyder – analog synthesizer
- Anne La Berge – flute and electronics
- Sam Pluta – electronics
- Ben Lamar Gay – cornet