After Thought
A night of electronic and multimedia compositions by Stanford composers.
After Thought is a concert that occurs slightly after it has already happened, where the memories of computers and humans blur into something you won’t quite be able to forget (or fully remember). What exactly does a memory disk remember, and what does it choose to leave behind? Ten composers interviewed the transistors, microchips, and hidden circuitry inside of our electronic devices to ask them about their childhood memories. What is a microchip’s favorite song? What happens when a transistor undergoes a transistential crisis? This concert features works by ten Stanford composers– Anna Golubkova, Brian Brown, Calvin Van Zytveld, Lemon Guo, Nicholas Shaheed, Mercedes Montemayor, Walker Smith, Mohammad H. Javaheri, Héloïse Garry, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi– with wide-ranging composition and performance practices spanning electronic and acoustic music, audiovisual compositions and installations, live coding, custom-built instruments, field recordings, film, dance and more!