The Theatre @ Boston Court Performing Arts Center
70 North Menter Avenue?Pasadena, CA
$25/$10 student (w/ ID)

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Strange loops and elemental forces propel PIE’s second concert of inventive and intense electroacoustic music.  Pierre Jodlowski’s Série Blanche stacks layers of gentle piano textures for a cumulative, crushing effect, while Ingram Marshall’s meditative Soe-Pa for amplified classical guitar uses digital delay to build loops and echoes into the fabric of the music itself. Max Ernst’s surrealist collage novel Seven Deadly Elements is the impetus behind Morton Subotnick's monumental ensemble work The Key to Songs, while air is the animating element of Ben Hackbarth’s open end, which transforms the resonance of the vibraphone into a swirling, enveloping soundscape.  The program also showcases two barrier-breaking interdisciplinary creations: Veronika Krausas’ Waterland for tape and live narrator, with video by Quintan Wikswo and text by Andre Alexis; and the debut of Alexandre François’ and Elaine Chew’s MIMI (Multimodal Interaction for Musical Improvisation), an innovative software interface that dynamically responds and reacts to a live improviser’s performance.