Higher Order Gestalt Fromage

Here is a video of the piece Higher Order Gestalt Fromage for two soprano T-Sticks and 24 channel loudspeaker array, composed and performed by blablaTrains (Ana Dall’Ara-Majek and Takuto Fukuda). The piece was premiered in the live@CIRMMT concert series on 13 February 2020 at Music and Multimedia Room (MMR) at McGill University.

I love the way they played with the relationships between gesture and sound! Unfortunately those of who could attend in-person have to imagine the spatialization aspect of the performance since it can’t come across in the stereo audio here.

3DMIN Symposium

Last week I was back in Berlin for an exhibition, concert and international symposium on Design, Development, and Dissemination of New Musical Instruments (3DMIN). The symposium was titled “Musical Instruments in the 21st Century — Identities, Configurations, Practices” and included a range of interesting speakers from the 3DMIN project itself and invitees like myself. The other speakers included:

• Alberto de Campo (3DMIN), Dominik Hildebrand Marques Lopes (3DMIN), Hannes Hölzl (UdK Berlin)
• Amelie Hinrichsen (3DMIN)
• Atau Tanaka (EAVI, Goldsmiths University)
• Dafna Naphtali
• Hans Tammen (School of Visual Arts, NY)
• Marije Baalman
• Sarah-Indriyati Hardjowirogo (3DMIN)
• Till Bovermann (3DMIN)
• Andreas Pysiewicz (3DMIN)
• Caroline Cance (Université d’Orléans)
• Deniz Peters (University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz)
• Gina Emerson (3DMIN)
• Jin Hyun Kim (HU Berlin), Uwe Seifert (Universität Köln)
• Kai Siedenburg (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg)
• Song Hui Chon (Rochester Institute of Technology)
• What counts as success in musical instrument design? — A panel discussion with Alberto de Campo (3DMIN), Atau Tanaka (Goldsmiths University), Florian Grote (Native Instruments), Jin Hyun Kim (Humbold University Berlin), Mark Zadel (Ableton), and Stefan Weinzierl (3DMIN).

Concerto for T-Stick and Two Laptop Orchestras

Here’s a video from way back in 2011 that I only recently noticed on YouTube. It features D. Andrew Stewart playing the T-Stick as instrumental soloist with laptop orchestras from Concordia and McMaster Universities.

The piece was co-composed by Eldad Tsabary (director of the Concordia Laptop Orchestra, CLOrk), D. Andrew Stewart (T-Stick) and David Ogborn (founder of McMaster University’s Cybernetic Orchestra).

Interestingly, there are also a couple of videos online in which composer Kevin Austin presents the video and discusses the piece.

New T-Stick videos

D. Andrew Stewart has posted new videos of his recent performances on the T-Stick digital musical instrument:

 

Improvisation – Transir for bass flute and soprano t-stick

An improvised duo for bass flute and soprano t-stick at the Centro Mexicano para la Música y Artes Sonoras in Morelia, Mexico (29 June, 2012): Salvador Torre, amplified bass flute, and D. Andrew Stewart, soprano t-stick.