artpower at uc san diego Performing Arts Season 2011-2012

Spring Into New Music

avant-garde from uc san diegos finest

The internationally renowned UCSD Department of Music is proud to showcase its graduate student community at The Loft. Exploring the avant-garde through several genres, these concerts are a great opportunity to experience music on the cutting edge of innovation. Come prepared for a heady mix of virtuosity, improvisation, electronics, multimedia, and all around stunning sounds. Be provoked. Join us to consider what music can be, and what it can become.

PROGRAM Jose Ignacio Lopez: Improvised Music from Electronic Sources; Cooper Baker: Pongulation (a piece for two computer players based on the atari pong game); Jamie Oliver LaRosa: Silent Construction I (a progress report of a sound performance for Silent Drum exploring the relations between gesture, the body and electronic sound); José Ignacio López Ramírez-Gastón: Osciladores Alimeñados (an improvisation for home-made oscillators from Perú and computer); Jason Ponce: Junk (a structured improv with computer, objects, stochastic sequencing and genetic algorithms).