Meridian Music: Composers in Performance presents Country Western
By
Zachary James Watkins. Country Western is a multi media performance that involves an ensemble of musicians playing an array of instruments, spoken word, interactive computer processing of the acoustic instruments as well as interactive real-time video animation. The string instruments tune to a unique twenty-two-tone just intonation scale. An electronic component creates a digital feedback loop between audio and video software/hardware, which then becomes an instrument in performance. The interactive system receives input data from microphones and is analyzed for control data for the video being synthesized in real-time. Abstract imagery and color fields projected in the room transform it with changing light, accentuating the physical environment, a technique recently dubbed augmented sculpture or object-based video art.
Cost: $10 general; $5 students/seniors