Meridian Gallery presents a special concert featuring recorder player and composer, Terri Hron of Canada. Bird on a Wire: absorb the current is a current project by Hron that features works by composers Laurie Radford (Canada), Peter Hannan (Canada), Theo Mathien (Canada), Juan Parra Cancino (Chile/NL), Ronald Boersen (NL), Peter Swendsen (USA), Jim Altieri (USA) and Terri Hron (Canada/NL).
Signal-based processing. Interactive improvisation environments. Real-time image to audio synthesizers. Recorder player Terri Hron walks the tightrope of new developments in computer-assisted composition and improvisation.
During the course of two years, Terri is experimenting with seven composers to put together a program of works which drops the recorder into different corners of the ever-growing realm of electroacoustic music. She is intensely fascinated by the variable degree of interactivity between musician and machine and by the direction of the signal: who is controlling who?
Each composer is providing Terri with a different challenge and approach. These are being rounded out by three new pieces by Terri herself, which will not only integrate new ideas growing from the collaborations, but also highlight her instrument’s historical connection with birds.
Terri Hron (b. 1977 in Edmonton, Canada) moved to Amsterdam in 1999, following a dream to study the recorder. Since finishing her studies—a Master’s in improvisation, composition and non-Western music from the Conservatory of Amsterdam—she has been active both in America and Europe as a composer and performer. She is a leading member of two ensembles: Rara Avis, a duo with drummer Robbert van Hulzen, that explores the boundaries between composition, improvisation, sound investigation and storytelling; and Forbidden Fruit, a mixed renaissance consort dedicated to digging up and reworking early music. As a composer, Terri is focusing on her solo project Bird on a Wire and a suite of pieces for recorder in combination with other baroque instruments based on Vivaldi’s Op. 10 flute concerti.
http://www.birdonawire.ca/
Cost: $10 general; $5 students/seniors