227 West 29th Street, NY NY 10001
April 25/8pm MARI KIMURA
Mario Davidovksy: SYNCHRONISMS NO. 9
Stefan Wolpe: SECOND PIECE FOR VIOLIN ALONE
Mari Kimura: CANON ELASTIQUE for Augmented Violin
EIGENSPACE for interactive graphics
VOYAGE APOLLONIAN for interactive graphics
JANMARICANA for Subharmonics (violin solo)
Conlon Nancarrow: TOCCATA
Matthew Greenbaum: LATERAL
Eric Chasalow: SCUFFLE AND SNAP
Mari Kimura will give solo recital program including American and European contemporary music for the violin, and her own compositions for the violin, using the "revolutionary" (The New York Times) bowing technique, "Subharmonics." She will also present works using interactive computer with motion sensor extracting musical expression from the violin bow: the "Augmented Violin" system developed at IRCAM in Paris.
The "Augmented Violin" system, developed by the Real Time Musical Interaction Team at IRCAM in Paris, extracts and analyzes via bowing motion, human musical expression. The motion sensor of "Augmented Violin" system is called Mini-MO (Modular Musical Objects), which contains 3D accelerometer and 2-axis gyroscope. The sensor is very small, not intrusive for the fast-moving bow arm, and attached into a custom-made glove on violinist's right hand. Kimura incorporates the data taken from the "Augmented Violin System" into the interactive computer music program MaxMSP, creating expressive collaboration between human and machine. Kimura will also present her works, which include interacting with graphics created by Japanese movie director, Tomoyuki Kato.
For more information on the motion sensor and interactive technology, please see feature article in Scientific American:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=kimura-augmented-violin-subharmonics
For more information on "Subharmonics," please see the feature article on the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/arts/music/the-violinist-mari-kimura-looks-for-low-notes.html?pagewanted=all
For demo video, please visit:
http://www.marikimura.com/Site_2/videos.html
$15/10 students, seniors