Triple Point - Pauline Oliveros, Jonas Braasch, and Doug Van Nort: Live at Red Room 4/24

Saturday, April 24th, $6


The Red Room
at Normals Books and Records
425 E. 31st Street Baltimore
Doors open at 8:30  

Triple Point ++ Michael Bullock ++ Joe Reinsel 

Triple Point - Pauline Oliveros (digital accordion), Jonas Braasch (soprano sax) and Doug Van Nort (laptop) - are an improvising trio in which a variety of synthesized acoustic sounds emanate from an accordion, acoustic saxophone is bent beyond recognition and all of these timbres are captured and transformed into a third set of sonic material via greis/laptop. The result is an ever-shifting tapestry guided by Deep Listening. Triple Point is the performance outlet for the trio's research/creation project that explores and experiments with intelligent interactive systems. Triple Point is also the location on a phase diagram wherein all phases of matter exist in thermodynamic equilibrium - a metaphor for the group's performance practice. This is where the trio operates exploring musical spaces and boundary conditions where contrasting ideas and streams can co-exist, while expanding the vocabulary of musical instruments acoustically (Braasch on soprano saxophone) and electronically (Oliveros, digital accordion and Expanded Instrument System, EIS, Doug van Nort on laptop and GREIS).

For many decades Pauline Oliveros has been actively expanding the voice of her main instrument, the accordion. Given the limited natural possibilities of this instrument with respect to sound (fixed tuning, no pitch bends, narrow variety in overtone spectrum), Oliveros has begun half a century ago to alter the sound of her instrument using tape delays and other electronic devices. Van Nort's work is based in digital signal processing, transforming Oliveros', Braasch's and his own sounds using Granular Synthesis, psychoacoustically-motivated sound analysis tools and Genetic Algorithms to explore new musical textures and timbres.

Michael Bullock does terrible, wonderful things with his contrabass. He rattles its thick, braid-like strings until they come to resemble a cyclone fence doing battle with a ferocious wind. He bows it with a quiet intensity that brings out every fiber of its physical being. He attacks it with alternative materials, leaving the bow aside like so much antiquated performance history. He takes the proud beast of an instrument and uses it to make expressly quiet noises. He takes an instrument capable of deeply sonorous experience, and turns it — mischievously, perhaps, but also concertedly — into a tool for sonic abrasion.

Joe Reinsel’s works have been performed at national and international events including: SIGGRAPH 2006, Zero One San Jose, Art Interactive, Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), University of Glasgow, Pixelache, Roulette, Deep Listening Space, Galapogos Arts Space, Tonic/subtonic, Engine27, and Mobius.

Also his projects have been supported by the Baltimore Museum of Art. New York State Council for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts,Maryland State Arts Council, William G. Baker Jr. Memorial Fund, Baltimore City Office of Promotion and the Arts, Freefall Baltimore,and Baltimore Community Foundation

Reinsel presently directs the Digital Media Arts Program at College of Notre Dame of Maryland. He has a Master of Fine Arts in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute(iEAR Studios), and a Master of Arts in Composition from Radford University.

www.deeplistening.org/site/catalog/Triple+Point

www.finenoiseandlight.net/

joereinsel.org/