Music Program Presents
"Michael Pisaro, electronic music visiting artist, Concert 2"
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Blum Hall
7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
The Bard Electroacoustic Ensemble performs Michael Pisaro's "asleep / melody / forest / path", a concert-length work for field recordings and large ensemble.7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Michael Pisaro (born 1961 in Buffalo, New York) is a guitarist and composer. A member of the Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, he has composed works for a great variety of instrumental combinations. He has a long-standing composer/performer collaboration with percussionist Greg Stuart. Recordings of his work (solo and collaborative) have been released by Edition Wandelweiser Records, erstwhile, another timbre, slubmusic, Cathnor, Senufo Editions, winds measure, HEM Berlin and on Pisaro's own imprint, Gravity Wave.
In the past few years, portrait concerts of his music have been given in London, Paris, New York, Santiago, Tel Aviv, St. Petersburg, Tokyo, Oxford, Glasgow, Moscow, Chicago, Munich, Huddersfield, Madrid, Brussels, Boston, Montpelier, Ljubljana, Victoria, Berlin, Houston, Düsseldorf, Trondheim, Amsterdam, Nantes, Mexico City, Seattle, Linz, San Diego and elsewhere.
Before joining the composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts in 2000 (as Co-Chair of Music Composition), he taught music composition and theory at Northwestern University. In the Fall of 2014, he was Fromm Foundation Visiting Professor of Music Composition in the Department of Music at Harvard. In 2005 and 2006 he was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.
Visiting artist lecture prior to evening concert. 1:30 PM, Blum Room N119
Free and open to the public.
For more information, call 410-271-4761, or e-mail [email protected].
Time: 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: Blum Hall