STRING O' BITS - PRESENTED BY RICE ELECTRONIC MUSIC LABS

THURSDAY, APRIL 28
Electronic Music Concert
REMLABS presents "String o' Bits": works for interactive electronics and live performers, gestural control of sound through sensors, and digitally generated/processed audio. Featured composers will include Jiena Gu, Brian Nelson, and J.R. Paredes.
8:00 p.m., Hirsch Orchestra Rehearsal Hall

REMLABS presents String-0-Bits, an open workshop of pieces and experiments created in the computer and electronic music facility at the Shepherd School of Music. New works will include live instruments, video, multi-channel sound, and interactive electronics. New works for live performance include a work for cello by Francisco Castillo, for contrabass by Shawn Conley, for vibraphone by Takuma Itoh, for electric guitar by JR Paredes, and for slide projector by the Pean/Nath duo.

New electronic works will be presented by Jiena Gu and Brian Nelson along with a new video work presented by David Pencil. In addition, 3 groups of students will also present some experiments with sensors and interactive environments as the evening progresses. Event begins at 8:00 p.m. in Hirsch Orchestral Rehearsal Room, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University.

"Electronic music is not a recent invention. It has been widely used by composers for decades to create new sounds," said Kurt Stallmann, assistant professor of composition and theory at Rice and director of the Rice Electronic Music Labs.

“If we trace the lifespan of almost all of the music we hear today from its inception in the mind of the creator to its realization in live performance and recording, we will find that somewhere along the way, the music was probably touched by a computer,” Stallmann said. “Even concerts of ‘pure’ acoustic music may be affected — halls sometimes incorporate artificial reverberation to enhance the acoustic quality of the space. Concert recordings are stored on some form of digital media and later edited using audio editing programs. Even the preparation of scores and parts are made with music notation programs.”