Music on All Sides
September 24, 2009 |  7PM
$10 or Included with Festival Pass

Music on All Sides explores the use of 5.1 Surround Sound as it applies to experimental music. The evening will once again be presented "in the dark."

Featuring:
R. Luke DuBois
John Hudak
Brett Balogh and Stephen Hastings-King

Bios / Works Descriptions

R. Luke Dubois presents Repeat After Me (2003) for solo flute (played here by Natacha Diels). R. Luke DuBois is a New York-based composer, artist, and performer who holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and has lectured and taught worldwide on interactive sound and video performance. An active visual and musical collaborator, Dubois is the co-author of Jitter, a software suite for the real-time manipulation of matrix data. He appears on nearly twenty-five albums both individually and as part of the avant-garde electronic group The Freight Elevator Quartet. He currently performs as part of Bioluminescence, a duo with vocalist Lesley Flanigan that explores the modality of the human voice, and in Fair Use, a trio with Zach Layton and Matthew Ostrowski, that looks at our accelerating culture through electronic performance and remixing of cinema. He teaches at the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center at NYU's Polytechnic Institute. His records are available on Caipirinha/Sire, Liquid Sky, C74, and Cantaloupe Music. His artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.

Spurious Landscapes by Brett Balogh and Stephen Hastings-King is a long-form improvisational piece in eight parts that was produced during an artist residency at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago, IL in 2007. The project seeks to address the opposing natures of recording and live improvisation by creating eight separate hour-long recordings, a varying subset of which are meant to played back simultaneously to create different compositions. The project employs a hybrid electro-acoustically prepared piano that consists of traditional piano preparations (metal, glass, cork, rubber, etc.) placed amongst the strings as well as an array of electromagnetic transducers to drive the piano strings into resonance and to vibrate the soundboard. Playing this hybrid piano is a collaborative effort, with one performer physically manipulating the piano keyboard and soundboard while the other sends signals derived from radio receivers and signal generators to the transducers. Spurious Landscapes made its debut at the 2007 Outer Ear Festival Sound at the Experimental Sound Studio and a portion has subsequently been mixed to 5.1 Surround by Lou Mallozzi, Todd Carter and Brett Ian Balogh for the 2009 Edible Audible Picnic at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park in Chicago. (Special 40-minute remix, prepared for ((audience)) at the Red House)

Brett Ian Balogh received his MFA in Studio from the Department of Art and Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and his B.A. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Illinois Institute of Technology, teaching courses in architecture, digital fabrication, do-it-yourself broadcasting and acoustics. He is a founding member of the experimental sound performance collective, Clairaudient and performs with the Chicago Phonographers. Brett is also a Free 103.9FM transmission artist and 2009/2010 fellow and a member of both the World Listening Project and the Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology.

Stephen Hastings-King is a pianist and historian. He was a Fall 2007 Artist in Residence at the Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago.