D. Andrew Stewart & T-Stick

In collaboration with
Issue Project Room


T-Stick Music



Wednesday, May 4, 8pm

ISSUE PROJECT ROOM
The (OA) Can Factory
232 3rd Street
3rd Floor
Brooklyn, NY
Admission: $10 / $8 for members

↓ Program

PROGRAM

When You Least Expect It.......................................................................................Luna Pearl Woolf
    performed by D. Andrew Stewart, soprano t-stick

Uh-huh.............................................................................................................D. Andrew Stewart
    performed by D. Andrew Stewart, soprano t-stick

Going to Ground........................................................................................................David Ogborn
    performed by D. Andrew Stewart, soprano t-stick

packing a lunch!...........................................................................................................Patrick Hart
    performed by D. Andrew Stewart, soprano t-stick

WITH WINDS....................................................................................................D. Andrew Stewart
    performed by D. Andrew Stewart, soprano t-stick

Chamber.................................................................................................................. W. L. Altman
    performed by Terri Hron, recorder

Moon Rabbit.................................................................................................................Terri Hron
    performed by Terri Hron, recorder

Winds Duo...........................................................................................................Improvisation 1
    Terri Hron, recorder; D. Andrew Stewart, soprano t-stick

Winds Duo...........................................................................................................Improvisation 2
    Terri Hron, recorder; D. Andrew Stewart, soprano t-stick

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Luna Pearl Woolf
Montréal-based composer/producer Luna Pearl Woolf has been enthusiastically received across North America and Europe. Her work can be heard on the BBC, NPR and has been commissioned by the Minnesota Sinfonia, the Ensemble contemporain de Montréal among others and she has recently released a full album on Oxingale Records. Recently Woolf was named Artistic Director of eXcentris, a new multi-venue, cross-disciplinary performance space, restaurant and lounge in Montréal.

Patrick Hart
Patrick Hart is a musician living in Montreal, pursuing a masters in Composition from McGill. He has composed music for three feature-length films, including the orchestral score for The U, a documentary which premiered on ESPN in December 2009. His music has been used in commercials internationally for McDonalds, Old Navy, State Farm, Volkswagen and Burger King, among others, and he has recorded a dozen albums.

David Ogborn
David Ogborn is a composer, guitarist and performer of electronic sound and video. At the centre of his work is the combination of traditional performance arts with electronic elements. Ogborn's work is performed in Canada, the United States and Europe by ensembles including the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, New Adventures in Sound Art, and Tapestry New Opera. Ogborn teaches audio and interaction technologies at McMaster University.



W.L. Altman
W.L. Altman is a composer and laptop performer. His written works are performed and commissioned by musicians across North America, and confound conventional models of notated music by sharing real-time creative processes with the performers through improvisation and reactive listening.



Terri Hron
Recorder player and composer Terri Hron explores acoustic and electronic sounds. Bird on a Wire is her ongoing project to commission, perform and record new pieces for recorder and live electronics. Commissions include work for Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Trio Scordatura and pianist Luciane Cardassi.Hron is the recipient of numerous awards, prizes and residencies. She currently a doctoral student in Composition at the Université de Montréal.

D. Andrew Stewart
D. Andrew Stewart is a composer, trained pianist, clarinettist and music theorist, as well as digital musical instrumentalist. His music has been performed internationally, including the the 2008 premiere of Everybody to the Power of One for the new digital musical instrument called the t-stick. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at matralab Hexagram, at Concordia University, Montreal where his research integrates music composition, performance and technology.

ABOUT THE MUSIC

Five artists come together to mark a unique moment in the development of digital instrumentalities and music. The T-Stick digital musical instrument, built in 2006, will take center stage in the world premieres of five new works, among the first music to be formally created for this instrument. D. Andrew Stewart, the leading expert in t-stick performance, has invited five American and Canadian composers to collaborate in the development of repertoire for the t-stick. He is attempting to establish a tradition and approach to creating music with electronic musical instruments. The five premieres, which are the result of collaborations between Stewart and the composers of the 2010 T-Stick Composition Workshops, will be performed along with established t-stick music, as well as improvisations combing digital and acoustic instrumentalists.

The t-sticks grew out of a collaborative project undertaken by Joseph Malloch and composer D. Andrew Stewart at the Input Devices and Music Interaction Laboratory (IDMIL) and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology (CIRMMT). The first prototype was completed by Malloch, in 2006. The t-sticks form a family of tubular digital musical instruments, ranging in length from 0.6 metres (soprano) to 1.2 metres (tenor). They have been designed and constructed to allow a large variety of unique interaction techniques such as: touching, gripping, brushing, tapping, shaking, squeezing, jabbing, swinging, tilting, rolling, and twisting. As a result, a significant emphasis is placed on the gestural vocabulary required to manipulate and manoeuvre the instrument. The musical experience for both the performer and audience is characterised by a unique engagement between performer body and instrument. The ongoing development of the t-stick family is a result of continuing institutional and public support. To date, the t-stick has been presented in Canada, the USA, Brazil, Argentina and Portugal. As a performer and researcher, D. Andrew Stewart has presented the t-stick at: the International Computer Music Conference, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network, ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, International Music-Gesture Conference, Society for Music Theory, Guthman Musical Instrument Competition the Congrès de l’ Association Francophone pour le Savoir.