Electronic Chamber Music + Radio

This semester, PAT 413 Electronic Chamber Music is focusing on Radio: Radio as technology, as medium, as institution, as instrument, as phenomenon. We are studying radiophonic music and radio art of the past, developing our own new works, and building radios. Follow our blog to track our progress:

http://electronicchambermusic.wordpress.com/

Special thanks to Arts @ Michigan for supporting the course!

Prof. Gurevich Delivers Keynote Address

In October, 2012, I traveled to Cali, Colombia to deliver the opening keynote at Diseño+, the 5th International Congress on Research in Design at the Universidad ICESI. I presented a history of the design of electronic musical instruments, and highlighted important contemporary challenges that designers face.

 
Since it's not everyday that I travel to Colombia, and John Cage's 100th birthday had just passed, I also performed a new realization of Cage's Rozart Mix for 4 cassette players, first realized by students in PAT 413 Electronic Chamber Music earlier in the year. My host Daniel Gomez led me on an intrepid mission through the junk markets of Cali to source old cassette players and some vintage Colombian tapes! I'm reliably informed that it was likely the Colombian premiere of Rozart Mix. We performed at the Auditorio Comfandi in conjunction with Videosonica.

Alum Carlos Garcia wins Art Prize!

Yes!!! Check this out!!! Touch Sensors! Rapping.  CRAZY VIDEO!?
How's this for a Time-Based Installation project, YO!!

Carlos Garcia on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNgwZet9mQ

Gypsy Pond XII on VIMEO!!!

Enjoy THIS.  The sound is generated by people walking on a sidewalk...with an Arduino/vidcamera sensor hookup "measuring human activity"!  The more people, the busier the music.  The 20 foot sculpture reaches to the sky...with it's many arms symbolizing "many paths, many truths" - but striving none the less.  The Kerosene flames below symbolize the human heart, ever fervent, ever searching.  Corny? Not really.  Hard to do? VERY! (imagine a floating 20-foot sculpture, and building a stable base that will keep it afloat in 50-mph wind - we did!!).  Yep.


Gypsy Pond Music XII - U of M Digital Music Ensemble from Kyle Kramer on Vimeo.

Gypsy Pond Music XIII posted on YouTube!

GYPSY POND MUSIC XIV is JUST AROUND THE CORNER....
but don't you want to see what we did last year? (Inspired by Matisse and Barry Truax and well, of course some of our favorite Dartmouth and Princeton guys....):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjxDQZayHY

Composer Mason Bates visits with students

Prior to his sound check with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra tonight at Hill Auditorium, composer Mason Bates stopped by the School of Music, Theatre & Dance to talk with students about integrating electronic and sampled sounds into compositions for orchestra. He talked about some of the challenges of editing, equalizing, and pitch-shifting recorded sounds to make them fit with acoustic sounds. Tonight's concert will feature his composition Alternative Energy, for which some of the electronic sounds were recorded at the particle accelerator lab Fermilab outside of Chicago.
http://www.masonbates.com/

Professor Rush performs 4'33" on Cage's 100th birthday

Recently I travelled to Mexico to celebrate the wedding of PAT alum, Jon Moniaci (shown below, in front of DME's magical performance of Gypsy Pond Music at Bowling Green University in 2002).  On the way home, it was September 5, John Cage's 100th Birthday, so naturally I did the following performance.  Special moments- the Mexican guards outdoors and a sneeze by the camerawoman.  More shots of the wedding to follow. 

My recent performance of 4'33", by John Cage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NlpaE6LAg