performances
Video documentation of 1977 premiere performance of “Quay”, an improvised suite for solo inside-the-piano. at the Pangaea Arts Center in Bernal Heights, San Francisco. The recording was shot using the Sony Portapak reel-to-reel video recorder.
His Master’s Voice (1983) was my first interactive solo piece that exploited a computer-based live data feedback signal processing system. Pitches and amplitude from the piano performance were applied directly to electronic modification and live-sampling of its own sounds. This performance was from the first European tour of The HUB which took place in the former Congress Hall of the DDR in Berlin in 1993.
An Industrial Soundscape for percussion and live electronics performed outdoors in San Francisco at an art opening by Johanna Poethig at the South of Market Cultural Center (SOMARTS) in 1984.
Video of excerpts from the 1987 performance in New York City of The Hub collaborating electronically with half the group at the Clocktower and half a few blocks away at the Experimental Intermedia loft. The group coordinated performances of their pieces using original software, two 8-bit microcomputers and a 300 baud modem to share data at a distance way out of earshot from each other.
Live performance video from the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in 2004.
The HUB performing at the Network Music Festival in Birmingham, UK in 2013. Messaging connections between the performers were displayed for the audience.
A studio improvisation between the HUB and synthesist Thomas Lehn in Cologne in 2005. Perhaps an electronic concerto ?
TeleSon 2005 Premiere performance in 2005 Barcelona, Spain opening the ICMC (International Computer Music Concference) with a networked premiere of TeleSon. It was the first performance of the ReacTable, an electronic musical instrument with a tabletop tangible user interface that was developed within the Music Technology Group at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain by Sergi Jordà, Marcos Alonso, Martin Kaltenbrunner and Günter Geiger.[1],
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactable. A virtual quartet was formed by two players playing one Reactable in Barcelona connected via internet with two players playing a 2nd Reactable in Linz, Austria. All sounds were generated by the players moving objects on the tables which activated sounds I composed in the SuperCollider open source software. The projected image on the right is from the Barcelona table and the Linz table (fuzzier) is on the left. The score of the piece specified with text instructions the timing of entrances and exits of synthesis patches allowing for improvisation to explore them.