The NOW Orkestra Futura sets sail with its inaugural concert on November 28th @ The Vancouver East Cultural Centre's Historic Theatre.
This promises to be a fascinating meeting of improvised music and technology that will feature a major new work from Vancouver's own Stefan Smulovitz. The composition, Mad Scientist Machine was created in partial fulfillment of the
requirements for his degree of Master of Fine Arts at SFU.
For the concert,"The Machine", converts the conductors’ ideas into light, specifically computer controlled coloured LED
lights, which are then used as cues for musicians in Okestra Futura to follow. Each color has a different meaning: red - melody, orange - imitate, yellow - open, green - noise, blue - drops, purple - loops, white - long tones,and black - silence. The machine can also be controlled via the internet.
For this night’s performance we have four internet conductors - including two founding NEW Orchestra Workshop members Paul Cram (Halifax) and Lisle Ellis (New York). Also conducting will be John Oswald (Toronto), Pauline Oliveros (who will be conducting from Oslo).
I'm also very excited to have two esteemed guests that have traveled here for the occasion. American violist, Eyvind Kang, who now resides in the Pacific Northwest makes the trip up here after concerts in Asia. Toronto-based singer, Christine Duncan, in her second project with NOW large ensembles comes to work as part of our dynamic vocal section of the group.
This is an incredibly exciting version of the NOW large ensemble history:
Voices: DB Boyko, Viviane Houle, Peter Hurst, Christine Duncan
Strings: Eyvind Kang, Jesse Zubot, Dave Chokroun, Tommy Babin
Horns: JP Carter, Brad Muirhead, Coat Cooke
Guitar: Chad MacQuarrie
Keyboard: Chris Gestrin
Laptop: Stefan Smulovitz
Percussion: Joseph "Pepe" Danza, Kenton Loewen
Hear It NOW 2009: L.E.D. by the Light
Saturday, November 28 at 8pm
The Historic Theatre at the Cultch - 1895 Venables Street (at Victoria Drive)
Tickets: $25 (regular) / $20 (members) / $8 (students)
www.noworchestra.com
