Program: Irvine Arditti & Roger Reynolds

IRVINE ARDITTI & ROGER REYNOLDS

at UC San Diego Friday, September 25, 2015 at 8 pm

Department of Music’s Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater

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IRVINE ARDITTI & ROGER REYNOLDS

Friday, September 25, 2015 at 8 pm Department of Music’s Conrad Prebys Music Center Experimental Theater UC San Diego

PROGRAM Introductory conversation between the collaborators, with related demonstrations to illuminate the performance to follow Shifting/Drifting for violin and computer musician (2015) Irvine Arditti, violin Paul Hembree, computer musician

Roger Reynolds (b. 1934)

Many thanks to the Department of Music (Rand Steiger and Lei Liang, chairs) and to the department’s Production Manager, Jessica Flores. And, as is always the case, particular gratitude to Josef Kucera, music department recording engineer, for his invaluable advice and services.—Roger Reynolds Run time for this event is approximately one hour and 15 minutes, without intermission.

PROGRAM NOTES Shifting/Drifting for violin and computer musician (2015) Roger Reynolds (b. 1934) Two ways of moving—also of being—that seemed to me inherent in the way my friend Irvine Arditti plays his violin. At times, a sudden and decisive shift from one position to another is called for, at others, a gradual and subtle repositioning of the hand (or an attitude) is more appropriate. This work is a response to him as well as to his instrument. From another perspective, this pair of “ways”—shifting or drifting—could be seen as referencing digital and analog processes, ways in which we store or manipulate information: in cascades of explicit quanta, or rather in continuously varying waves.

In 2007, I began what is an ongoing engagement with the writing of small-scale, complementary solos for particular instruments. The idea was to posit complementary worlds in which sonic images could arise, one Assertive, the other Evocative. I have composed seven such pairs now, and the most recent—imAge/violin and imagE/violin—became the source materials for the larger-scale duo, Shifting/Drifting. The latter work is a metaphorical journey, from the violinist’s tentative responses to a distant, sonic fog, through an increasingly dynamic interplay between solo violinist and a computer-musician, who manages—in real time—four algorithmic processes.

So the duet is between two individuals each of whom has a particular “instrument,” physical (the violin) or processual (the computer). As the work evolves over time, there is what might be thought of as succession of contrasting sonic landscapes through which the soloist passes. The first two comprise extended waves of increasingly substantive nature. They are followed by a period of incessant, sometimes edgy iteration, and another featuring proliferations of bright, brief “points of sound,” in wave after wave. In the last section, the computer part invokes strongly contrasted environments while the soloist navigates a series of five re-shufflings of the same set of twenty musical fragments. Each time the set is restated, the segments—they are all literal quotes from previously heard music—become more explicit and detailed. The final set amounts to a series of direct quotations from earlier music, but now in a repackaged form that emphasizes the urgency and lyrical force that is inherent in the material, but has not previously been realized. This metaphorical journey is about how the places we visit, the things we do, can take on unforeseen meaning. The same is true of friendship.

Shifting/Drifting has a special place in my work because it involved an intense and ongoing collaboration with a friend of more than three decades. The pair of source solos as well as the more elaborate, and partially improvisational content of the resulting duo were developed in close, interactive contact over many months. Finally, in a ten-day period in La Jolla, we finalized the musical content in a collaboration that now expanded to include computer-musician, Paul Hembree. It is Hembree who detailed the programming of the algorithmic processes that I specified, and who, in concert, performs my algorithmic concepts in a musical dialog with the violinist.

Special gratitude to Shifting/Drifting’s dedicatee Irvine Arditti, to computer musician Paul Hembree, to the Department of Music at UC San Diego for the invaluable use of its facilities and expert staff (in particular, Senior Recording Engineer, Josef Kucera, and Production Manager, Jessica Flores) and, of course, to ArtPower for making the UC San Diego presentation possible.

—Roger Reynolds, University Professor, University of California, San Diego 4

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS Roger Reynolds, Pulitzer–winning American composer, is known for his capacity to integrate diverse ideas and resources, for the seamless blending of traditional musical sounds and those newly enabled by technology. His work sometimes responds to text of poetic and mythological origins. His reputation includes a “wizardry in sending music flying through space: whether vocal, instrumental, or computerized.” His leadership within the UCSD Department of Music helped establish it as an international leader in composition and computer music. Reynolds won the Pulitzer Prize in music in 1989, with the string orchestra work, Whispers Out of Time. In 2009, he was appointed university professor, the only artist ever so honored by the University of California. His work has been featured at festivals including Warsaw Autumn, the Proms and Edinburgh Festivals (UK), the Suntory International Series and Music Today (Tokyo), and the Helsinki and Venice Biennales. In 1998, the Library of Congress established a Special Collection of his work, and it is also included in the Paul Sacher Collection, Basel. Reynolds’s compositions are published exclusively by the C.F. Peters Corporation, and several dozen CDs and DVDs of his work have been commercially released.

His work embodies an American artistic idealism reflecting the influence of Varèse and Cage, and it has also been compared with that of Boulez and Scelsi. He lives with his partner of 50 years, Karen, in Del Mar, California, overlooking the Pacific.

Irvine Arditti studied at the Royal Academy of Music where the Arditti Quartet was formed in 1974. Both in the quartet and as soloist, he has performed throughout the world in most of the leading concert halls and festivals promoting the most challenging new music and has given world premieres of hundreds of works. Arditti’s name is synonymous with the highest level of quality and dedication in the performance of new music. The list of composers he has worked with is a who’s who of 20th and 21st century music, and there are also hundreds of younger composers whose work he has performed. More than 200 CD releases both with the quartet and as soloist document Arditti’s achievement. As leader of the quartet, he accepted, in 1999, the prestigious Ernst von Siemens Music Prize. This prize for “lifetime achievement” in music began in 1974 and is normally given only to individuals. The Arditti quartet is the only ensemble ever to receive it. The complete archive of both the Arditti quartet and Irvine Arditti are housed in the Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland.

Paul Hembree’s work explores the boundaries between the perceptual categories of sounds in a search for uncanny or sublime hybrids. His recent projects include Ikarus-Azur, a La Jolla Symphony and Chorus commission; Light: Frozen and Refracted, premiered by Ensemble Intercontemporain; and several audio-visual works informed by music cognition and computational models of natural processes. His music has been performed around the United States and Europe, at events including IRCAM’s ManiFeste, MusicX, NWEAMO Festival, and the SEAMUS and NIME conferences. Since 2011, Hembree has collaborated with composer Roger Reynolds as a computer music researcher and performer. In this role, Hembree has worked alongside the JACK Quartet, Mark Dresser, and Ensemble Signal. As a guest speaker he has presented at Harvard University’s Group for New Music and SUNY Buffalo, and his scholarship and audio engineering of Edgard Varèse’s Ionisation was published in Perspectives of New Music vol. 51, no. 1.

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HUANG YI & KUKA

Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 8 pm Mandeville Auditorium, UC San Diego Award–winning Taiwanese dancer and choreographer Huang Yi performs with his robot KUKA.

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