Wednesday afternoon at 4:30 on UMKC campus.

[David L. Nicol]

Computers in the Arts

Two works involving cutting edge technology in music composition will be performed on 
James Snell's Doctoral
Lecture Recital at 4:30 on Wednesday, March 21 in White Hall of the Performing Arts 
Center.

Degrees of Separation, by UMKC faculty Paul Rudy, makes use of live computer audio 
processing of a performed cactus
(plant) outfitted  with contact microphones.

Dark Forrest, by graduate student Timothy Place, relies on computer tracking of 
performer gestures to control
computer-processed audio.  In Place's work, Snell will perform a duet as he leads the 
computer with his
marimba mallets being tracked through a video camera and computer software.

All of the software for both compositions was written in the Intermedia/Music and 
Production and Computer
Technology Center (iMPact) at the Conservatory.

Both of these works exhibit a high level of collaboration between traditional 
performance and technology, and
are breakthrough in their cutting edge electro-acoustic and performance techniques.  
They exhibit the types
of collaborative creativity possible with computers in the arts.

Laurence Kaptain
Assistant Provost

Paul Rudy
Director, iMPact Center