Bowerbird is pleased to present an evening of “visual music” by composer and video artist Matthew Greenbaum. Currently, the term “visual music” applies to works usually digital that closely combine abstract musical and visual ideas. Usually these are in video format, although the term can include sound sculptures and sound environment installations. The composer and video animator Matthew Greenbaum uses the term “visual chamber music” to describe his works for live performer and video animation. These works include the Rope and Chasm, an evening-length setting for mezzo soprano of parts of Nietzsche’s Also Sprach Zarathustra with character animation. The works on this program of part of an ongoing series of works for solo instrument and video animation with electronic sound.

Program:
Greenbaum: Friday Night Fights
for improvising viola and video animation: Stephanie Griffin, viola

Greenbaum: Effacement
performed by Charles Abramovic, piano

Greenbaum: Bits And Pieces
for tenor sax and video: Nicholas McNamara,:, tenor sax

Greenbaum: Make Like An Amoeba And Split
for flute and video: Cynthia Folio

Greenbaum: I Saw The Procession Of The Empress On First Avenue
(animation alone)

Greenbaum: What We Owe The Invertebrates
(lecture with slides/sound)

JUST ADDED:

Anthony Ciesielka “happily fused (and happily dis-fused)”
For viola and fixed electronics (2-channels)

Heather Mease “Toilet”, “Psalm”, “Football”

Benjamin Safran/Hans Richter “Filmstudie”

Carlos Johns-Davila “Antikuna Ñauraytaki”
for soprano and guitar