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We are excited to announce the grand reopening of the AlloSphere Instrument in October with a new immersive exhibition entitled Musics of the Sphere by Dr. Robert Morris. This is a spatial audio composition made expressly for the 54.1 channel sound system of the AlloSphere, with no visuals, featuring the unique audio resolution of the instrument. The work is a 57-minute, fixed-media computer music composition in six tracks of spatially modulated sounds. The Allosphere is the perfect venue to present the piece where loudspeakers are placed around and above and below the listeners.
Musics of the Sphere is a celebration of “musics” from all over the world. Over 150 excerpts of all types of music from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe comprise the sounds in each track. These “musics” are presented as such (without modification) to partial and complete transformation via a host of computer music techniques.
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October 13th: free performances at 6 pm, 7 pm, 8 pm
October 14th: walk-in installation starting at 6 pm
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Dr. Robert Morris
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Dr. Robert Morris is an internationally known composer and music scholar, having written over 180 compositions including computer and improvisational music and music to be performed out of doors, as well as four books and over 70 articles and reviews. Since 1980, he has taught at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester as Professor of Composition and affiliate member of the Theory and Musicology Departments, and at present interim Chair of the Composition Department. His many compositions have been performed in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Morris's music is recorded on Albany Records, Attacca, Centaur, Composers Recordings Incorporated, Fanfare, Music and Arts, Music Gallery Editions, New World, Neuma, Open Space, and Renova.
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GIVING OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT OUR RESEARCH
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An AlloSphere tour for students
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I invite you to support the AlloSphere’s cutting edge research in the Arts and Sciences that effects positive changes in our local and global communities Your tax-deductible gift will support Graduate Student Researchers, Postdoctoral Researchers, and much needed equipment for our lab facilities. Large or small, every gift makes a significant difference!
To learn more or to make a donation to the AlloSphere, please contact me by clicking on the following support link.
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We’re very proud to showcase our continuing progress. Feel free to share this newsletter.
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Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Director, Allosphere Research Laboratory
California Nanosystems Institute
Distinguished Professor, Media Arts and Technology & Music
Director, Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology
University of California, Santa Barbara
(805) 893-3010
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