KansasCityElectronicMusicandArtsAlliancepresents

QUADRIVIUMNOVUM

7:30pm,Friday,APRIL16,2010$10Admission/$5Student(availableatthedoor)

UnityTempleonthePlaza707West47thStreet

KansasCity,MO64112

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Quadrivium, featuring (l to r) Rebecca Ashe, Mark

Stauffer, Cheryl Melfi, and Kari Johnson.

still from Christopher Biggs’ Bioluminescence

The Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance closes its 2009-10 season with Quadrivium Novum, a concert featuring Kansas City chamber music ensemble, Quadrivium, alongside live electronic audio and video. Quadrivium members Rebecca Ashe (flute), Kari Johnson (piano), Cheryl Melfi (clarinet), and Mark Stauffer (cello) will perform world premieres of three new commissions: Andrew Seager Cole’s A Slow Unraveling, Daniel Eichenbaum’s Orbit, and Mara Gibson’s E: Vespers. Mara Gibson’s E: Vespers is one of a series that explores perceptions of an eclipse. The piece follows aspects of an eclipse visually through time, with consonance and dissonance fading in and out between very "real" and "unreal" sounds, with bells taking on a role of primary significance. Andrew Seager Cole’s A Slow Unraveling focuses on the spinning out of a small portion of music and starts with short, fast elements that increasingly slow down until the music completely unravels, finally coming to a rest.

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In composing Orbit, Daniel Eichenbaum drew upon the following description of orbital experience by astronaut Joseph Allen for inspiration: ‘We orbit and float in our space gondola and watch the oceans and islands and green hills of the continent pass by at five miles per second. We move silently and effortlessly past the ground. I want to say “over the ground” as I write this, but remember that in space your sense of up or down is completely gone and my description must reflect this fact. In addition, the breathtaking speed of the ship is an odd and confusing contrast to the feel of perpetually floating within the spaceship. You do not sit before the window to view the passing scene, certainly not down upon it. Are you speeding past oceans and continents, or are you just hovering and watching them move beside you?’ Additionally, the program for Quadrivium Novum includes Christopher Biggs’ Bioluminescence, abstractly reflecting marine phenomena in audio and video; Jason Bolte’s Scrap Metal, an electroacoustic work that explores relationships between sonic material produced on the piano and various metallic sounds; and William Lackey’s the world falls asleep for cellist Mark Stauffer, inspired by the works of Charles Pierre Baudelaire, a nineteenth-century French poet. Quadrivium is a Kansas City-based ensemble dedicated to the performance of new music and established repertoire for flute, clarinet, cello, and piano. Members Rebecca Ashe, Kari Johnson, Cheryl Melfi, and Mark Stauffer often collaborate with composers on the creation of new works. Upcoming performances include the SEAMUS 2010 conference, the 2010 MMTA/KMTA Joint Conference, and the Summer Composition Workshop at UMKC. Quadrivium actively seeks out new repertoire, as well as opportunities to fuse cutting-edge performance with performing arts education and outreach. Quadrivium strives to present programs of music that illustrate the grand conversation of composers and performers across time, genre, and geography. The Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) was founded in 2007 to encourage and develop understanding and appreciation of electronic music and to create an expansive sense of community for electronic musicians and other artists in the Kansas City Area. KcEMA organizes concerts of electronic music and collaborative projects with generative and performing artists. KcEMA provides a forum for electronic musicians and artists in other media to collaborate, exchange ideas, and grow as an interactive, supportive community.

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