Music of Today DXARTS: Until Spring

Morton Subotnick — A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur
James Wenlock — Three Changes
Clayton Kinney — Splang
Daniel Peterson — Vanishing Portals
Wei Yang — Panta Rhei
Ewa Trębacz — Inanna Descending

Mirta Wymerszberg, bandoneon
Josiah Boothby, French horn
Kin of the Moon (Heather Bentley, viola; Kaley Lane Eaton, soprano; Leanna Keith, flute)

Morton Subotnick – A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (8-channel tape)
James Wenlock – Three Changes (Ambisonic soundtrack)
Clayton Kinney – Splang (Ambisonic soundtrack)
Daniel Peterson – Vanishing Portals (Ambisonic soundtrack)
Wei Yang – Panta Rhei (Ambisonic soundtrack)
Ewa Trębacz – Inanna Descending (Ambisonic sound and variable ensemble)

Brand new works from Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) and School of Music composers Ewa Trębacz, Daniel Peterson, Wei Yang, Clayton Kinney, and James Wenlock are presented along with Morton Subotnick’s classic work of analog synthesis, A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (1978).

The Center for Digital Art and Experimental Media and the School of Music are pleased to produce this event in Holographic Higher Order Ambisonic surround-sound.

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/231988397664815/

About Kin of the Moon

Kin of the Moon is composers Kaley Lane Eaton (voice, piano, electronics), Heather Bentley (viola, cello, violin), and Leanna Keith (flutes). The group explores sonic rituals, promotes cross-pollination of genres, emphasizes the communicative power of specific performance locales and celebrates the creativity that multiplies itself through the collaboration of performers and composers. The artists of Kin of the Moon devote their lives to reaching higher vibrational levels through sound creation.

https://kinofthemoon.org/

About DXARTS (UW)

DXARTS is a ground-breaking department of creative practice-based research. Our mission is to support and empower new generations of artists who reimagine our emerging relationships with new technologies. As a department, DXARTS challenges current trends, develops new approaches to artistic discovery, embraces diversity, and looks towards the future while critically engaging with traditional forms. We strive to probe the unknown through experimentation across media and disciplines.

https://dxarts.washington.edu/