UPCOMING EVENTS
JULY 8, 2018 - PILING SAND - PILING STONE
Automata, Los Angeles, 4:30pm
Christine Tavolacci presents the west coast premiere of Canadian composer André Cormier's immersive 96 minute work for flute, electronics and video Piling Sand - Piling Stone 4.
Piling Sand—Piling Stone 4 (2011) is the fourth of seven volumes that make up a series of large-scale works that explore music unfolding on both the small and large scale. To achieve this, the performer (in this volume solo flute) plays through a highly strategize ninety-minute score, and is recorded in six-minute segments, which loop and layer fifteen times. As the piece progresses, the live sounds intermix with the recorded layers that are output with loudspeakers. Stratum of sound emerge during the course of the performance, increasing in density and complexity, yet always controlled. After ninety-minutes, once the performer has played the last note, the end result is a six-minute resonating sculpture-like recording of all the fifteen layers. At this point the live performance is over, however, at the same time beginning its second formal incarnation as a standalone reverberating sonic entity. The Piling Sand—Piling Stone series uses sound and performance to create the illusion of time folding onto itself. - André Cormier
Automata, Los Angeles, 4:30pm
Christine Tavolacci presents the west coast premiere of Canadian composer André Cormier's immersive 96 minute work for flute, electronics and video Piling Sand - Piling Stone 4.
Piling Sand—Piling Stone 4 (2011) is the fourth of seven volumes that make up a series of large-scale works that explore music unfolding on both the small and large scale. To achieve this, the performer (in this volume solo flute) plays through a highly strategize ninety-minute score, and is recorded in six-minute segments, which loop and layer fifteen times. As the piece progresses, the live sounds intermix with the recorded layers that are output with loudspeakers. Stratum of sound emerge during the course of the performance, increasing in density and complexity, yet always controlled. After ninety-minutes, once the performer has played the last note, the end result is a six-minute resonating sculpture-like recording of all the fifteen layers. At this point the live performance is over, however, at the same time beginning its second formal incarnation as a standalone reverberating sonic entity. The Piling Sand—Piling Stone series uses sound and performance to create the illusion of time folding onto itself. - André Cormier
© Christine Tavolacci 2018
