“A Performance of Piano Technologies: Strings, Hammers, and Digital Files”
Featuring Pianist Steven Pane
March 29 at 4:30pm and March 30 at 11:45am
This event is free and open to the public.
Join Steven Pane, UMF professor of music, for a performance inspired by Marshall McLuhan’s idea that technology is an extension of our body–from foot-to-wheel, nervous system-to-electricity, the performed keyboard works portray their particular technology in compelling ways. Pieces include the acoustic technology of Franz Liszt’s Sposalizio to the interactive media of Christopher Cerrone’s Hoyt-Schermerhorn for piano and live electronics. The program technology extends to video with the premiere of Remnants, a series of short films by Ann Bartges, inspired by J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Remnants considers the cyclical compositional structures from Aria, Variation 19 and Variation 25, and applies these concepts of repetition and counterpoint to imagery from the routines of everyday life.
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