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CU Music: Midday Music at Lincoln 9/28

Thursday, September 28, 2017 at 12:30pm to 1:15pm

Lincoln Hall, B20
Dept of Music, 101 Lincoln Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4101, USA

Midday Music at Lincoln: Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri and Pe Lang perform audio-visual works of musical sculpture.

audio-visual performance cl_loop by Pe Lang.

The performance consists of two devices that contain a double coils, whose functions are contradictory; one as a sensor and the other as an electromagnet. The sensor detects the introduction of a magnet and also activates the electromagnet, creating a closed loop. Placed over the coils are concave glass lenses, which allow a magnet sphere to spin freely in an organic and more fluid way.

Due to the close proximity of the two central devices, the magnetic fields spills over into the spaces both in-between and the surrounding. This allows the artist to introduce micro magnets that will move and react in response to the main magnetic fields. This movement is amplified through the introduction, and removal, of different materials that alter the acoustic qualities.

 

Untitled II  solo for Sound Sculpture

Concept and composition by Papalexandri 

Sound Sculpture/ Instrument by Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri and Pe Lang. 
Untitled II builds on modified membranophones developed by Marianthi Paplexandri-Alexandri as main instruments utilizing Pe Lang's motor-activated devices. 
Materials: motors, acrylic glass, nylon line, silicone. 
Year: 2010

Untitled II builds on modified membraphones developed by Marianthi Paplexandri-Alexandri as main instruments utilizing Pe Lang's motor-activated devices. The sound of Untitled II produced through friction, can be influenced by manipulating the tension of the nylon lines, changing the speed of the motor, turning on and off the motors or by depressing the membrane with the fingers while it is vibrating to vary the pitch. The work creates and explores a soundscape of machine-produced long sustained sounds and textures with organic character and without any post processing. It is a work adaptable to any space that can be presented both as a sounding sculpture and as an instrument in the context of a solo live performance, thereby questioning the role of the performer and the difference between performing and operating.

http://www.marianthi.net/

http://www.pelang.ch/

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Event Type

Cultural, Performance

Departments

Department of Music

Website

http://music.cornell.edu

Cost

Free and open to the public; no tickets required.

Contact E-Mail

lag277@cornell.edu

Contact Name

Laurel Gilmer

Contact Phone

607-255-4760

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