Anne LaBerge (The Netherlands)

Monday, April 19th, 7pm - Cancelled by volcanic ash.

FREE

A significant group of musicians are actively seeking for ways to use technology as an intimate and/or integrated partner for their acoustic instruments. At home.

Using Max/MSP, Anne La Berge has created a series of compositions that work with a flexible combination of imposed musical situations where performer/improvisers are an integrated part of the music making process. Free improvisation would not have the same results. Nor would a fully composed work. These works have been published by Donemus in the Netherlands and Frog Peak Music in the US.

Anne La Berge will talk about the evolution of her compositional work focusing on how she uses Max/MSP and external hardware in her pieces and what she has done to groom them into publishable compositions.

About the composer:

Anne La Berge's career as flutist/improviser/composer stretches across stylistic boundaries. Her performances bring together the elements on which her international reputation is based: a ferocious and far-reaching virtuosity, a penchant for improvising delicately spun microtonal textures and melodies, her wholly unique array of powerfully percussive flute effects, all combined with electronic processing. Many of her compositions involve her own participation, though she has produced works intended solely for other performers, usually involving guided improvisation. In addition to creating her own work she regulary performs in other artists’ projects in a range of settings from modern chamber music to improvised electronic music.

She can be heard on the Largo, Artifact, Etcetera, Hat Art, Frog Peak, Eionstein, X-OR, Unsounds, Canal Street, Rambo,Data labels and will soon appear on New World Records and another timbre.

She moved to Amsterdam in 1989, where she has lived ever since.

For more info: http://www.annelaberge.nl/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_La_Berge