ARNOLD DREYBLATT
Sat, Apr 27
|Epsilon Spires
Famous for his transcendental and ecstatic music, legendary composer and multi-media artist Arnold Dreyblatt’s live performances emerge from his decades-long practice of building and preparing his own instruments, and exploring the incidental harmonic discoveries made when they are played.
Time & Location
Apr 27, 2024, 8:00 PM – 10:30 PM
Epsilon Spires, 190 Main St, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
About the event
TONIGHT'S PROGRAM:
Dreyblatt’s Solo Performance involves a newly developed amplified “Excited String” instrument fitted with an audio transducer system in performance with live digital electronics. Recent concerts have included the CTM Festival, Berlin; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn; Viernulvier Festival, Ghent, and Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet in Marseille. In addition to the new solo project “Transmissions”, Dreyblatt performs a new version of his seminal work “Nodal Excitation” for Excited Strings Bass, first performed in New York in 1979.
Transmissions, 2021 Amplified upright bass prepared with music wire and mechanical transducer including sine waves tuned in the "Dreyblatt tuning system" along with real-time audio processing and software control and including voice by Sam Ashley with texts by John Cage. Nodal Excitation, 1979-2022 In development since 1979, Nodal Excitation is performed with an amplified upright electric bass prepared with unwound music wire, in order to excite the higher overtones with a percussive rhythmic technique for exciting…
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