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CHIMEFest 2019

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
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CHIME FESTIVAL IS UPON US!!!

On April 5-6, CHIME hosts an exciting festival of electronic, electroacoustic, and multimedia works, featuring the Spektral Quartet and the pianist Daniel Pesca. The four concerts presented as part of the two-day festival include music by the graduate composers from the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and Western Michigan University. The festival will conclude with a colloquium presented by Amy Cimini, Assistant Professor of Integrative Studies at the University of California San Diego, and a concert of music by Maryanne Amacher and Peter Ablinger presented by Daniel Pesca and Sam Pluta.

All events are free and open to public, and will take place in the Performance Penthouse at the Reva and David Logan Center at the University of Chicago, featuring an eight channel sound system. For more information, please contact: acamci@uchicago.edu

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FESTIVAL PROGRAM!
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Building Oscillators

Hackers of ‘Approaches to Live Electronics’ busy building circuitry!

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Piece Her Together

This weekend, Igor Santos runs electronics for two major opera premieres by Ensemble Dal Niente: Eliza Brown’s “The Body of the State” and Katherine Young’s “When Stranger Things Happen”, both directed by Emmi Hilger.

WHEN: Friday, October 20, 7pm; Saturday, October 21, 7pm; Sunday, October 22, 3pm
WHERE: The EDGE Theater (5451 North Broadway, Chicago, IL 60640)

More info: http://www.dalniente.com/piece-her-together

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“between spaces”

Chimer Igor Santos performed his work “between spaces” (for vibraphone, spatialized percussion ensemble, and electronics) this week, during the Logan Center for the Art’s 5th Anniversary Celebration. The piece was commissioned specifically for Logan’s woodshop and combines found shop objects, traditional percussion instruments, live electronics, synchronized lighting, and theatrics, to create an immersive and interactive soundscape.

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Soldering for Cage!

Serious hacking going on as Approaches to Live Electronics students prepare for John Cage – Cartridge Music!

 

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Tim Page Wins SEAMUS/ASCAP Prize

Tim Page, UChicago grad composer and CHIME regular, has just been declared a winner of the 2017 SEAMUS/ASCAP Award. The prize includes a commission for an electroacoustic work that will be premiered at the Society for Electroacoustic Music Conference in the Spring of 2018.

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Mark your calendars

Poster!

More info here

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SuperCollider jam-out

Improv session through SuperCollider and external controllers.

Featured above are Electronic Music II students: Takashi Shallow, Ire Olagbami and Fran Levitin.

 

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Busy CHIMEs

Busy times for CHIME. Director Sam Pluta on tour with the Peter Evans sextet, Alican Çamcı and Igor Santos just finished performing Saariaho’s “Aer”,  and the Switch On! project is coming up.

Pictured above is a snapshot from Pierce Gradone‘s graphical cues, for his new piece Net(work), for violin, cello and piano/keyboard. The work is a collaboration between Pierce and UofC neurobiologist Dana Simmons, and will be premiered by the [Switch~ Ensemble] on May 14th, at Elastic Arts.