An exploration of David Tudor’s productions in the field of new music, this three-day festival December 6–8, include stwo concerts featuring the works of David Tudor and members of Composers Inside Electronics Inc., as well as a workshop focusing on creative processes and the design of sound.
John D.S. Adams is performing Neural Synthesis, one of Tudor’s last works from the early 1990s and isbased on Adams’s collaborative work with Tudor. The work was developed using a unique synthesizer based on an Electronically Trainable Analog Neural Network (ETANN) integrated circuit.
Pulsers realisation by Michael Johnsen is grounded in his insights and research into Tudor’s original instruments at the World Instrument collection at Wesleyan University and the collection of his papers at the Getty Research Institute, notably represented in You Nakai’s “Reminded by the Instruments”, published in 2021.
Microphone – along with Pepscillator – was conceived by Tudor under the auspices of Experiments in Art and Technology for the Pepsi Pavilion at the Osaka World’s Fair in 1970. Produced through the Sound Modifier Console designed by Gordon Mumma in conjunction with Tudor, this series of works is recognised as a formative part of Tudor’s transformation from pianist to composer in the 1960s.
The soundscape formed by Phil Edelstein, Adams, MJohnsen and Gökhan Deneç will be envelopped with visuals from Sophia Ogielska’s “Toneburst: Maps and Fragments” series.
Issue 66, December 2023
Turkey’s Centenary Issue
