Contact: Karie Patton
Video, live electronics and percussion performances will envelop the senses in a Feb. 8 electronic media concert at Mississippi State University's Bettersworth Auditorium.
Mark Applebaum directs the 7:30 p.m. free performance in the 188-seat Giles Hall facility. He is an assistant professor in MSU's music education department, sponsor of the event.
The main program will be preceded by a special 7 p.m. session titled "Sonic Circuits." Sponsored by the American Composers Forum and the music education department, Sonic Circuits has been featured on campus for the past two years.
Concert selections include, among others, Applebaum's "Narcissus ReMix"; "Aftermath" by Christina Agamanolis; and "Long Slender Heels," by Mike Frengel. The pre-concert event features Thomas Gerwin's "Rollenspiel."
Videos include Mark Webber's "Sunayani," Iara Lee's "Enclosed Nature" and Philip Mantione and Alysse Stepanian's "The Field." Others will be "Sandscapes" by MSU Television Center director David Hutto and "Penrose Animation" by assistant art professor Anna Chupa.
"The audience will experience a variety of sights and sounds, including CD tracks and live performances for timpani, snare drum and amplified cactus, accompanied by electronically taped sounds," said Applebaum. "Electro-acoustic sound sculptures, modified by live electronics in accompaniment to slides of contemporary architecture, also will be featured."
Other parts of the program include:
--MSU alumnus Chapman Welch's performance of "Lazarus" for electric guitar and live electronics;
--A rendition by assistant professor Robert Damm of Lalo Davila's "Samba del 'Boro'" for snare drum and tape and Damm's collaboration with Charles John-Arnold on "John-Arnold's Afronaut" for percussion, synthesizers, sampler, beat box, and video; and
--John Beck's "Interactions for Timpani and Sound" by senior music education major Christopher Clark of Starkville.
For more information, telephone (662) 325-3070.