This
Saturday, December 7, Arizona State University’s School of Arts, Media and
Engineering will present an evening of new musical performance works for
digital technologies.
What
does that mean, you ask?
It
means XBox Kinects, Nintendo Wiimotes, Game Controllers, Wacom Tablets, iPads
and of course laptops, will become musical instruments. Students from the
Digital and Hybrid Ensembles course in the Digital Cultures Program at Arizona
State University will present their own original musical compositions using a
variety of devices and sounds.
Garth
Paine, Interim Director and Associate Professor in Arts, Media + Engineering at
ASU, said of the collaboration with Mesa Arts Center, “I am delighted to once
again be working with The Mesa Arts Center to showcase some of the
undergraduate musical performance work from the Digital Culture Program.
Digital Culture looks to the future through experimental work with new musical
interfaces and approach to performance, so this concert promises to give a
glimpse into exciting developments in musical composition and performance.”
ASU
School of Arts, Media and Engineering faculty, Digital Culture Capstone
students and the Laptop Orchestra of Arizona State (LOrkAS) will round out the
performance, and the concert will also feature live VJ’ing and external
projection mapping on the Mesa Arts Center.
“In
recent years, the work of undergraduate and graduate students in ASU’s School
of Arts, Media + Engineering has been showcased at community festivals and
events on the Mesa Arts Center campus. The performance of The Digital Culture
Hybrid Ensemble on December 7 is a continuation of this exciting and growing
collaboration,” said Cindy Ornstein, Executive Director of Mesa Arts Center.
The
free concert is set to take place on Saturday, Dec. 7 @ 7:30pm Mesa Arts Center
Actors Studio (upstairs).
