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Real-time composer-performer collaboration as explored in Wilderness, a dance and audio installation
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From fall 2010 to spring 2011, the author was the pianist in twenty public performances of Wilderness, a site-adaptable dance and audio installation by choreographer Yanira Castro and composer Stephan Moore. Wilderness's music was generated as the result of an algorithmic treatment of data collected from the movements of both dancers and audience members within the performance space. The immediacy of using movement to instantaneously generate sounds resulted in the need for a real-time notational environment inhabited by a sight-reading musician. Wilderness provided the author the opportunity to extensively explore an extreme sight-reading environment, as well as the experience of playing guided improvisations over existing materials while incorporating lateral thinking strategies, resulting from a real-time collaboration between composer and performer during the course of a live performance. This paper describes Wilderness in detail with particular attention focused on aspects of the work that most directly affect the pianist: the work's real-time notational system, live interaction between composer and performer, and the freedoms and limitations of guided improvisation. There is a significant amount of multi-media documentation of Wilderness available online, and the reader is directed toward this online content in the paper's appendix.
ContributorsDauphinais, Michael (Author) / Campbell, Andrew (Thesis advisor) / Hackbarth, Glenn (Committee member) / McAllister, Timothy (Committee member) / Pilafian, J. Samuel (Committee member) / Ryan, Russell (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2012
Description
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach has long been used for keyboard percussion pedagogy and performance. The cello suites (BWV 1007-1012), in particular, are popular choices for marimbists. As with many transcriptions for marimba, performers are challenged to transfer Bach's musical genius onto an instrument whose timbre, range, mode of execution and acoustic properties are distinctly different from the original. To date, there is no concise and relevant edition of the suites for study and performance at the marimba. The edition contained herein solves most, if not all, of the problems normally confronted by marimbists. In addition to synthesizing the most salient information from early manuscript sources and modern performances, this edition corrects the harmonic and voiceleading problems that are caused by the polyphonic limitations of the cello. This edition also eliminates performance notations found in most cello editions which are of little use to a marimbist.
ContributorsSallak, William Leslie (Author) / Smith, J. B. (Thesis advisor) / Sunkett, Mark (Committee member) / Hackbarth, Glenn (Committee member) / Bush, Jeffrey (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2010
ContributorsPreble, Deborah J. (Performer) / Licon, Peggy (Performer) / Stocker, David, 1939- (Performer) / Glenn, Ruth (Performer) / Dooley, Kathleen (Performer) / Women's Choir (Performer) / Arizona Statesmen (Performer) / University Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1984-10-21
ContributorsLarson, Brook (Conductor) / Parthun, Karen (Conductor) / Simmons, Mark (Conductor) / Dauphinais, Michael (Performer) / Hickman, Miriam, 1955- (Performer) / Men's Chorus (Performer) / University Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1998-11-22
ContributorsKallenberg, Jennifer A. (Performer) / Gabbard, Ray (Performer) / Nemko, Deborah (Performer) / Weber, Steven T (Performer) / Talleda, Joseph (Performer) / Women's Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1991-02-28
ContributorsRoueche, Michelle (Conductor) / Wagner, Deborah (Performer) / Tweed, Randall (Conductor) / Women's Choir (Performer) / Graduate Chorale (Performer) / University Conductors Orchestra (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1996-04-18
ContributorsStutzman, Gina (Performer) / Stocker, David, 1939- (Performer) / Hoffer, Warren (Performer) / McCartney, Michele (Performer) / Hickman, Miriam, 1955- (Performer) / Dauphinais, Michael (Performer) / Souza Santos, Rubia (Performer) / Skoldberg, Phyllis (Performer) / Magers, William (Performer) / Atsumi, Takayori (Performer) / Smith, J. B., 1957- (Performer) / Women's Choir (Performer) / Concert Choir (Performer) / Valley Presbyterian Chancel Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1997-12-09
ContributorsKennedy, Karen (Conductor) / Souza Santos, Rubia (Performer) / Larson, Brook (Conductor) / Dauphinais, Michael (Performer) / Parthun, Karen (Conductor) / Hickman, Miriam, 1955- (Performer) / Women's Choir (Performer) / Men's Chorus (Performer) / University Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1999-02-28
ContributorsWillis, Dawn O. (Performer) / Fuller, Charles L. (Performer) / Borland, Mary Ann (Performer) / Copeland, Jill (Performer) / Christiansen, Scott (Performer) / Women's Choir (Performer) / Arizona Statesmen (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1987-10-15
ContributorsWeber, Steven T (Performer) / Robinson, Mark (Performer) / Copeland, Jill (Performer) / Darrough, Galen P. (Performer) / Nemko, Deborah (Performer) / Arizona Statesmen (Performer) / Women's Choir (Performer) / ASU Library. Music Library (Publisher)
Created1990-04-26