ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12

• ICMC Concert Number 12

  • 2025-06-12 Thu 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
  • School/Berklee/Campus/Boston Conservatory 132 Ipswich Street, Rm 106, Boston Conservatory at Berklee

  • Program

    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/01 Upwelling

    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/02 Coupling

      • Person/Scott Miller with Person/Adam Vidiksis — Instrument/Percussion/Percussionist and Person/Keith Kirchoff #Pianist

      • • My Notes

          • 18:02 Really #Cool - love the splattering differences between speakers
          • extremely well-performed
          • so much sonic diversity in timbral space.
          • #To Listen Again
          • Very "performance-y"

    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/03 Where Water Meets Memory by Person/Eli Stine

      • • My Notes To Listen Again

          • 18:06 piece starts - #Acousmatic. lush bass and sparkles, with wave crash. Rich sonic stage.
          • Sound/Speaker/Multichannel/8 Channel
          • 18:07 love the Train sound. Sound/Sample/Ambient
            • This Sound/Recording/Ambisonic/5th Order is so rich
            • 18:10 some kind of fog horn
            • 18:12 so freaking #Cool when the water is 3-d with the Instrument/Voice/Choir
            • 18:13 some startling skittering with some kid samples
            • water splashing
            • wow, would this survive stereo?
            • the piano and plunky splashy sounds with thunder 18:14

    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/04 Shadows Resonance

      • • My Notes - To Watch Again To Listen Again

          • #Composer Person/Matthew Goodheart on the Joy-Con Controller - playing live
            • #Pic
              • 
          • 18:19 begins with little hazy, fog obscured neon traces behind a windowpane
            • the visuals are engaging but not too much. formless but evocative of space, water, melting, ... absolute music for visuals.
          • skittering, first up front, then sides. some organ, rain static in the background.
          • TODO 18:24 attach #Video
          • 18:24 now we have some more geometric shapes in 3d - contributes to the growing drama. pulsing, changing back into white shape cuts.
          • Pretty #Cool - apparently he was playing live with the Joy-Con Controller live (I couldn't see him)
    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/05 fleeting experience
    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/06 Taqsim The Humanity of Arabs
    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/07 Noise to Signal
    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/08 A Southern Reverie

    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/09 Broken Hourglass

      • • My Notes #Acousmatic #To Listen Again

          • 18:58 love the splattery bass.
          • slow helicopter effect, what is the whirring
          • buzzing it reminds me of a light for an aquarium
          • now in the back we have some rubbing acceleration, like a gliss on a double bass, but it's behind veils, distortion choirs.
          • 19:04 minor ninths.
          • The bass swoops up and then falls down.
          • so many splatters. ok, space is revealed now
          • • transformation of sound through
              • filtering
              • chaotic synthesis
              • electromagnetic field recordings Electromagnetic Field Recording
              • heavily processed
                • acoustic textures
                • glitch-like bursts
                • resonant harmonic material
                  • tenths
                • evolving within
                  • a dynamic spatial environment.
                  • The work unfolds as layers of filtered instrumental sounds interact
                  • Sound/Sample/EM Field electromagnetic recordings captured on a Transport/Train journey,
                    • glitchy, unstable bursts
                      • generated by chaotic circuits
              • Over time, rhythmic elements accelerate and shift in texture
                • dense, immersive climax.
              • concluding with a fragmented decay,
                • leaving behind traces of its earlier gestures.

              • The Title Broken Hourglass

                • reflects the way time can feel distorted*
                  • rushing forward or slipping away
                  • unnoticed
                • granular textures
                • pulsing rhythms
                • spectral transformations
                • evokes a world where time fractures and dissolves
                • like the hidden sounds it reveals

    • ICMC/25/d4/1120 Concert n12/10 Fantasia on Battle Tactics

      • • My Notes

          • TODO attach #Video 1
          • TODO attach #Video 2
          • highly spatalized, explosive at end. transitions are sudden - but how?
          • #Cool
            • sounds
            • concept
          • performance
          • I'm not sure I would listen to this outside of a performance venue though.