PROGRAM. Exploring Sound through Sketches. Pre-Concert and Post-Concert installation CCRMA, Seminar Room

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1 Department of Music Stanford University CCRMA STAGE May 28th, 2009, 8:00pm

2 PROGRAM Cleaner Bruno Ruviaro Oli's Dream Jaroslaw Kapuscinski no exi()t Cobi Van Tonder Thumbs of Fire Visda Goudarzi In Green Hiroko Terasawa Exploring Sound through Sketches Javier Sanchez Pre-Concert and Post-Concert installation CCRMA, Seminar Room Untitled Michael Berger, Luke Dahl, Christine Keiko Funahashi and Diana Siwiak

3 PROGRAM NOTES Cleaner Bruno Ruviaro A title contributes strongly to the détournement of a work, but a reaction of the work on the title is inevitable. Thus one can make an extended usage of specific titles borrowed from scientific publications or military ones; and even from many phrases found in illustrated books for children. The French word détournement means dejection, diversion, rerouting, distortion, misuse, misappropriation, hijacking, or otherwise turning something aside from its normal course or purpose. This piece, as well as this paragraph, can be reproduced, imitated, or partially quoted, without the slightest indication of origin. Oli's Dream (text by Camille Norton) Jaroslaw Kapuscinski Oli s Dream is a playful collaboration between music and writing, between a piano keyboard and a typewriter keyboard, and, above all, between a composer and a poet. When composer Jaroslaw Kapuscinski and poet Camille Norton began talking about the rapport between music and poetry, they discovered that as children they had shared the same dream, the dream in which a piano becomes a typewriter and in which a typewriter becomes a piano. Oli s Dream is therefore an experiment in synaesthesia, an attempt to fuse the temporal modes of music with the spatial and temporal domains of words. In the process, the audience finds itself in the presence of a perceptive, purely aware being, Oli, who creates himself through his encounter with words. Words here make and unmake themselves from the outside in or the inside out, transforming themselves as they discover their own direction in time. As Oli s Dream unfolds in the interstices between listening to sound and reading letters on a screen, it moves into the additional spatial, visual, and temporal dimensions of live performance, enacted here by the composer at his piano engaging in a call and response with letters and words appearing and then pulling themselves apart on a screen.

4 no exi()t Cobi Van Tonder HD video and 16 channel sound, making use of recorded samples from Tito la Rosa. Thumbs of Fire Visda Goudarzi Thumbs Of Fire is a piece composed by Visda Goudarzi and generated by computer. It explores different qualities of energy and fire. The energy of the piece varies throughout just like the energy of fire; from the tranquility of sunshine to the impact of lightning. The piece is full of assertiveness and passion. In the context of the elements, Aristotle believes that fire occupies a place between earth and wind; "Thumbs Of Fire" suspends the audience between the two. In Green Hiroko Terasawa Inspired by spring time, this work presents quiet layers of improvised and noise materials with calligraphy sketches in various shades of green. Voice and flute improvisation, performed by Hiroko Terasawa and Diana Siwiak, is mixed with soundscape recordings with some audio processing, and diffused into 4 channels. The scans of non-text calligraphy drawings are filtered, colored, and layered in motion in high definition video. The video and audio are counterpointed to be in and out of synchronicity and associations. Exploring Sound through Sketches Javier Sanchez The basic idea of this performance is to relate spatial representations to sound and vice versa. By means of a pen display, the performer explores a two dimensional scenario in which sound and sketches are closely related. This performance is an artistic variation of an original research project, which consists of the use of sound feedback techniques to assist visually impaired people in the recognition of curves and shapes using gestures.

5 ABOUT THE ARTISTS Bruno Ruviaro Bruno Ruviaro, composer and pianist from São Paulo, Brazil, was born in 1976, and has lived in 20 different places: Rua Theodureto Souto, Rua Cajati, Casa do Seu Demétrio, Rua São Borja, Rua James Adam, Alameda dos Uirapurus, Avenida Modesto Fernandes, Avenida Santa Izabel, Rua Nuno Álvares Pereira, Rua Prof. Djalma Bento, Rua Dr. Nestor Esteves Natividade, Rua Major Diogo, North Park Street, Jericho Street, Olmsted Road, Thoburn Court, Comstock Circle, Via Parma, Rue de l'hôtel de Ville, Greenoaks Drive. Composition and intermedia at Stanford University. Jaroslaw Kapuscinski Jaroslaw Kapuscinski is an intermedia composer and pianist whose work has been presented at New York's MOMA, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Museums of Modern Art Palais de Tokyo and Centre Pompidou in Paris, National Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid and many other venues in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He has received numerous awards among else at the UNESCO Film sur l'art Festival in Paris (1992), VideoArt Festival in Locarno (1993, 1994), Festival of New Cinema and New Media in Montréal (2000). Kapuscinski graduated from Academy of Music in Warsaw and University of California, San Diego. Currently he teaches composition and intermedia at Stanford University. Cobi Van Tonder Cobi van Tonder, human, planet Earth. Visda Goudarzi Visda Goudarzi is a Computer Musician. She is currently a graduate student in Music, Science and Technology at CCRMA. She has also a Masters degree in Computer Science from TU Vienna and has played piano since childhood. Research areas: software development for computer music, human-computer interaction, gesture based interfaces, distributed systems, computer graphics and the application of new media in art.

6 Hiroko Terasawa Hiroko Terasawa is a soon-to-graduate CCRMA Ph.D. student from Japan, working on her dissertation on timbre perception modeling. She grew up as a singer and calligrapher, then earned her B.E. and M.E. in Electronic Engineering from University of Electro- Communications, Tokyo, Japan, and M.A. in Music, Science and Technology at Stanford University, and worked as a researcher at IRCAM, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris, Sony Corporation, and NTT communication science laboratories in Tokyo. She enjoys producing music, video art, installations, research publications, thesis chapters, and heirloom tomatoes.. Javier Sanchez Javier Sanchez is currently a Visiting Scholar at CCRMA, Stanford University. He received his MS in Mechanical Engineering and his PhD from Tecnun, University of Navarra, Spain. His research and academic career is focused on Computer Graphics as applied to such fields as product design, architecture, manufacturing, reverse engineering and music. His current focus is the creation of audiovisual material in real time, with the intention of exploring the relationship between music and spatial movements. Some computer graphic techniques based on the manipulation of parametric curves and surfaces (NURBS) have been used to create visual dynamic effects. For more info: Special thanks to: Jonathan Berger, Jay Kadis, Carr Wilkerson, and Sasha Leitman. No food, drink or smoking is permitted in the building. Cameras and other recording equipment are prohibited. Please ensure that your pager, cellular phone and watch alarm are turned off.