Electroacoustic Chamber Music by Judith Shatin at Bowdoin Music Festival in Brunswick, Maine on August 1
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New York, NY – Judith Shatin’s Spring Tides, for amplified flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano and Cherry Blossom and a Wrapped Thing, After Hokusai, for amplified clarinet and electronics will be presented on Sunday, August 1 – 7:30 PM at the Studzinski Recital Hall on the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. This concert is part of the Charles E. Gamper Festival of the Bowdoin International Music Festival and will feature performances by the Juilliard Technology Center.
Spring Tides will be performed by Tara Byrdsong, flute, Ann Hung, clarinet, Muneko Otani, violin, Carmine Miranda, cello and Naomi Woo, piano. Cherry Blossom and a Wrapped Thing, After Hokusai will be performed by clarinetist Eric Fung. Projection design for both pieces is by Langdon Crawford.
The composer writes, “Spring Tides…was inspired by the pull of the moon and sun on the flow of the tides, highest when the moon and sun are directly lined up with the earth…In Spring Tides (the tidal) process animates the pull between acoustic and electronic sound, between controlled improvisation and exactly specified elements, between slow and surging motion, and between shifting fields of timbre and pitch.” Complete notes at http://www.judithshatin.com/detail.php?compid=169. The piece was also featured this Spring at Juilliard’s Beyond the Machine festival.
The composer further writes, “Cherry Blossom and a Wrapped Thing: After Hokusai was inspired by a print of the same name made by the extraordinary Japanese printmaker known as Hokusai (1760 – 1849). I encountered it in a sumptuous collection of his prints in Tokyo and was immediately struck by the subtle mystery of both its subject matter and execution. The cherry blossom speaks of the beauty and brevity of life; the wrapped thing of its ineffability.” More about it at http://www.judithshatin.com/detail.php?compid=110.
For more about this concert and the Bowdoin International Music Festival, call 207-373-1400 or visit http://www.bowdoinfestival.org/gamper_festival.php.
Visit the composer online at http://www.judithshatin.com.
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