Streaming and in-personIn person and streaming.
Presented by Mills College Music Department, the Center for Contemporary Music and Mills Performing Arts
MAGGI PAYNE
JAMES FEI
JOËLLE LÉANDRE & WILLIAM WINANT
Open to the public, both in-person and via live stream.
Registration is required.
In-Person:
$15 -or- Pay What You Wish, Free with a Mills I.D
Capacity is limited and Proof of Vaccination is required.
Face Coverings are required, at all times, in all venues.
For more info and a list of accepted documents visit: Mills College COVID-19 Response for event guests.
Live Stream:
Free -or- Pay What You Wish.
Live Stream link will be provided on the day of the event
James Fei’s installation in the lobby will welcome audience members attending the evening concert with a voicemail greeting from Alvin Lucier, slowed down by a factor of a thousand, rendering his voice inaudible but visible as a speaker cone slowly traces the compression and decompression of air from his speech. The evening concert will begin with a work created on the Moog synthesizer by Maggi Payne whose diffusion of her music in the Concert Hall will take listeners on a sonic exploration in space and time. James Fei will perform a series of works for live electronics: the first created on the original Buchla Box, the second focused on direct and electro-acoustic feedback, the third exploring scale in sound projection, shifting gradually from the PA system to small, local transducers and the fourth a quiet piece using only small speakers and transducers. The concert will conclude with a duo improvisation featuring two master improvisers—former Milhaud Professor (2002, 2004, 2006) Joëlle Léandre on the double bass and Mills faculty member, percussion virtuoso William Winant (MFA, 1982). Léandre and Winant are among the world’s most gifted improvisers and interpreters of new music. The list of performers and composers they have worked with is literally a Who’s Who in the history of contemporary music from the beginning of the second half of the twentieth-century to the present day.
More information:
Music from the Fault Zone: Experimental Music at Mills College (1939 to the present)
Mills Music Now
www.performingarts.mills.edu