Kamza and Bar Kamza

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2008-08-26T20:46:40-04:00

ArtPower! Film and UCSD Music professor Shlomo Dubnov present Kamza and Bar Kamza, a site-specific installation and performance piece created for The Loft, featuring Distinguished Professor of Music at UCSD, Steven Schick, and UCSD Professor of Music Philip Larson. As part of the Architecture + Cinema series, Kamza and Bar Kamza tells the Talmudic story of the fall of Jerusalem in a multimedia hyper-cinema experience that includes video, online chatting, hypertext, and live debate. Pre-show music 6:45-7pm mixed by Jose Ignacio Lopez including contemporary electronic artists from Latin-America and Europe, such as Fizzarum, Lali Puna, Telefon Telaviv, El Lazo Invisible, Loopdrop, Sigur Ros, and more! Bring your charged laptop for this immersive and entertaining experience! <a href="http://www.artpwr.com/categories/film/pages/silent">On Kamza and Bar Kamza: The Silent Conversation Given a Voice</a> by Geoff Ryman ***************************************************************************** ArtTalks! post-performance conversation with Director Shlomo Dubnov and Calit2 Director Ramesh Rao ***************************************************************************** CAMPUS PARTNERS Calit2, Chancellor’s Interdisciplinary Collaboratories, Department of Music true false

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About Kamza and Bar Kamza The Kamza and Bar Kamza performance grew out of an ongoing "debate and commentary play" project conducted at UCSD with collaborators from the history, economics and other departments in the university and outside. The Talmud has been commonly suggested as an early example of hypertext, and the layout of the Talmudic page, with embedded commentaries, was used as a model for developing the performance logic. This method of presentation introduces transformative concepts of social creativity and learning, harnessing the tools of social media, semantic web and machine improvisation in a networked performance system. ***************************************************************************** Biographies Shlomo Dubnov Shlomo Dubnov is an Associate Professor in Music Technology at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to this he served as a researcher at IRCAM in Centre Pompidou, Paris and was a faculty at Ben-Gurion University in Israel. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has been involved in a number of state of the art research and creative projects in digital media, such as EU sponsored "Semantic HiFi" project, the OMax machine improvisation system and more. Currently he is co-editing a book on, "The Structure of Style: Algorithmic Approaches to Understanding Manner and Meaning" to appear in Springer in 2009. Philip Larson Bass-baritone Philip Larson studied at the University of Illinois and received a degree in vocal performance. He was a founding member of the "Extended Vocal Techniqies Ensemble," one of the first groups dedicated to the performance of vocal music featuring extended techniques. The quartet performed throughout the United States, Europe and Canada. In 1977 Larson, with Edwin Harkins founded [THE], a composing/performing duo that performed in major festivals worldwide. They have collaborated with John Cage, Toru Takemitsu, Anthony Braxton and media artist Vibeke Sorenson. Laron performed as a concert soloist under the direction of such conductors as Davis Atherton, James Levine, and David Robertson. In addition Mr. Larson has, for many years, sung early music. He performed in New York with Pomerium Musices and in recent decades he has performed with a quintet of singers, the Early Music Ensemble of San Diego, that has toured the East and West Coast of the United States and concretized extensively in Switzerland, Germany, and France. Larson is Professor of Music at the University of California San Diego. Steven Schick Steven Schick was born in Iowa and raised in a farming family. For the past thirty years he has championed contemporary percussion music as a performer and teacher, by commissioning and premiering more than one hundred new works for percussion. Schick is Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of California, San Diego and a Consulting Artist in Percussion at the Manhattan School of Music. In 2008 Schick received the "Distinguished Teaching Award" from UCSD. He was the percussionist of the Bang on a Can All-Stars of New York City from 1992-2002, and from 2000 to 2004 served as Artistic Director of the Centre International de Percussion de Genève in Geneva, Switzerland. Schick is founder and Artistic Director of the percussion group, "red fish blue fish," and in 2007 assumed the post of Music Director and conductor of the La Jolla Symphony and Chorus. Steven Schick recently released three important publications. His book on solo percussion music, "The Percussionist's Art: Same Bed, Different Dreams," was published by the University of Rochester Press; his recording of "The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies" by John Luther Adams was released by Cantaloupe Music; and, a 3 CD set of the complete percussion music of Iannis Xenakis, made in collaboration with red fish blue fish, was issued by Mode Records.

2009-01-15T19:00:00-05:00

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Regular: $10 Member: $9 UCSD Student: $5

Kamza and Bar Kamza

2009-02-26T14:10:42-05:00