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UMKC Academy - Summer Composition Workshop
7:30pm, Tuesday, JUNE 22, 2010
FREE and Open to the Public
White Recital Hall
Performing Arts Center, UMKC
4949 Cherry Street
Kansas City, MO
The Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts alliance will present a
concert of works for instruments and electronics as part of the UMKC
Academy’s Summer Composition Workshop. The concert, which is free
and open to the public, will be held in White Hall on Tuesday, June
22nd at 7:30 P.M.
The concert features an excerpt from Paul Rudy’s electronic-symphony
series, 2012 Stories, with Rudy accompanying the electronics with
various instruments, such as pan flute and assorted percussion.
Rudy’s works in this series focus on environmental sound sources, such
as water, animals, and bells, which are turned into a unified
resonating kaleidoscope that gravitates towards meditative peace.
Rudy will be giving a presentation as part of the composition workshop
earlier in the day. Dr. Rudy is a Guggenheim recipient and a
recent winner of the Prix de Rome.
The concert also includes Scott Blasco’s lyric and moving Sustenui Te
sung by Katie Woolf, and Peiying Yuan’s intensely detailed and
ebullient work Fractal Excisions performed by Brad Baumgardner.
Blasco and Yuan will be working at the composition workshop as mentors
for younger composers, as will Christopher Biggs and Richard Johnson,
both of whom have pieces on the concert.
Jason Bolte’s Scrap Metal for piano and fixed media opens the
concert. The pianist, Kari Johnson, creates various sounds by
scraping, strumming, plucking, and beating inside and on the
piano. These rich and dynamic sounds integrate seamlessly with
metallic bangs, crashes, and resonances emanating from the
speakers. Bolte’s work oscillates between an intensity bordering
on violence and a scenic, meditative beauty. The concert ends
with Caroline Miller’s pop-influenced and energetic Tarantella for
cello and fixed media.
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 Electrotap
KcEMA would like to thank Electrotap for their generous corporate support of electronic music and art in Kansas City.
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“When
you think of electronic music, boops and beeps might come to mind.
Synthesizer-heavy new wave. Tinny video game themes. But listen
to the work of the Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance, a co-op of
composers, musicians — sometimes even performance artists — that
promotes experimental electronic music in the area. You might be
surprised by the music’s emotionality, its sonic richness, its absolute
abstract nature.”
- Sarah Benson, ink
Magazine
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