{"id":15898,"date":"2023-04-22T14:45:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T19:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/?p=15898"},"modified":"2023-04-24T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T21:54:22","slug":"analogue-concert-to-feature-students-on-experimental-electronic-instruments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/news\/2023\/04\/22\/analogue-concert-to-feature-students-on-experimental-electronic-instruments\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Analogue’ Concert To Feature Students Playing Experimental Electronic Instruments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Breanna Loredo-Rayas had never encountered a haunted box prior to the beginning of the spring semester. Fast forward a few months and she\u2019ll play it live at \u201cAnalogue Electronica\u201d Tuesday at Rudder Theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The concert is part of Venture, the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts\u2019 weeklong celebration of student work<\/a> from April 25-29, and features students from the Electronic Music Composition course taught by Dr. Will Connor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Loredo-Rayas, who will be joined onstage by classmate Nat Cortez, wasn\u2019t the only one unfamiliar with the instruments explored in the class, Connor said. These include analogue synthesizers, theremins, no-input mixing boards, step sequencers and Kaossilators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMany students started the class not having any experience with any musical instruments, let alone the experimental, often-complicated analogue electronic instruments used in the course,\u201d he said. \u201cThrough weekly engagement with the instruments in the new Electro-Acoustic Sound Lab in the Liberal Arts and Arts & Humanities Building, they have developed an understanding of the instruments that is allowing them to create on a complex and detailed level, as well as express themselves sonically through their recently gained experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Loredo-Rayas described the haunted box as \u201ca lot of gadgets and gizmos put on a wooden box.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThat\u2019s basically how Dr. Connor explained it to us,\u201d she said. \u201cA whole bunch of door stoppers, skewers, even fidget spinners were attached to boxes people had made at home. They added reverb and connected it to an input. That\u2019s where you get all those scary movie effects \u2014 the way you bow a certain string, or the way you flick a spring is really what gives it its name, because the noises that come out are very spooky or eerie.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier this month, Loredo-Rayas was among the students who performed alongside electronic musician Zo\u00eb Nowak on campus, which has helped her prepare for \u201cAnalogue Electronica.\u201d But the order of the performers caused some preshow jitters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was nervous, especially because I was the first one going up with Zo\u00eb,\u201d she said. \u201cI was very intimidated. This time, I\u2019m not first. I get to sit back and enjoy my classmates\u2019 work and also demonstrate what I\u2019ve learned in my piece.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Connor said he is \u201cexceptionally proud\u201d of the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhether they explored patching synthesizer circuits, creating polyrhythmic sequences, improvised with a previously unfamiliar instrument or built their own soundscape-making devices, the students have truly gone above and beyond expectations,\u201d he said. \u201cThe concert is bound to please and entertain everyone as a result.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details: <\/strong>\u201cAnalogue Electronica\u201d is Tuesday, April 25, at 7 p.m. at Rudder Theatre. Free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo: Breanna Loredo-Rayas and classmate Nat Cortez practice on their haunted boxes for the “Analogue Electronica” concert. Courtesy of Breanna Loredo-Rayas.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Introducing Venture, the inaugural celebration of creativity<\/a> from students in the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts. Join us April 25-29, when the sights and sounds of these talented artists will be on display at venues throughout the Rudder complex on the Texas A&M University campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The dance program\u2019s annual Perpetual Motion performance will be in Rudder Auditorium for the first time. It features works by faculty members, students and guest artist Jane Weiner from Hopestone, Inc. in Houston. Students will perform \u201cSierra,\u201d a 23-minute dance created by Carisa Armstrong, associate professor and dance program director, and Christine Bergeron, clinical professor and associate dean for academic affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details:<\/strong> April 27-28 at 7:30 p.m. at Rudder Auditorium. Tickets are $12; $6 for students, seniors and military, available at the MSC Box Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related story: <\/strong>\u2018Perpetual Motion\u2019 Dance Event Gets Bigger Stage, Includes Return Of 23-Minute \u2018Sierra\u2019 Piece<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Live Art Student Showcase will feature projects created by students in Seminar in Performance Theory (PERF 460). Works will include encounters with \u201cexperiencing live,\u201d experiments in performer\/audience relationships, and explorations of the interwoven affective, embodied, cognitive and emotional experience of live performance. The students have been influenced by a wide range of artists and movements, from Dada to Bauhaus, Merce Cunningham and John Cage to Fluxus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details:<\/strong> April 27 at 1 p.m. at Rudder Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201cWaste Wear Wearable Arts Runway Show\u201d comes from the Dress in World Culture course (PERF 156), taught by Grace Adinku, which examines the social, psychological and cultural aspects of dress and appearance. Students are creating handcrafted, one-of-a-kind wearable arts dress designs using recyclable waste items including plastic, paper, metal and face masks, as well as clothing and textiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details:<\/strong> April 26 at 6:30 p.m. at Rudder Forum. Free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnalogue Electronica\u201d is a showcase of composers and performers from the Electronic Music Composition course (PERF 318), taught by Dr. Will Connor. Students are introduced to a variety of analogue electronic instruments and asked to improvise and compose for them to create a final project. The instruments include analogue synthesizers, theremins, no-input mixing boards, step sequencers, Kaossilators and haunted boxes \u2014 noise-making devices the students designed and built themselves. The 90-minute concert will feature compositions written and played by the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details:<\/strong> April 25 at 7 p.m. at Rudder Theatre. Free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Student Research and Creative Works Symposium will show the wide variety of creativity explored in the various disciplines within the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details:<\/strong> April 26 at 10 a.m. at Rudder Forum. Free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cRhinoceros,\u201d Eugene Ionesco\u2019s play, translated by Derek Prouse, is the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts\u2019 first theater production, and also its first collaboration with Blinn-Bryan Theatre Troupe. It is co-directed by Anne Quackenbush, Texas A&M lecturer, and Greg Wise, Blinn theater instructor. After three shows April 20-22 at Blinn-Bryan Student Center Theatre, \u201cRhinoceros\u201d comes to Texas A&M as part of Venture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Details:<\/strong> April 27-29 at 7 p.m. at the Black Box Theater in the Liberal Arts and Arts and Humanities building. Tickets are $5, available at blinn.edu\/boxoffice<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\nAbout Venture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Dance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Experimental Performance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Fashion<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Music<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Research<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Theater<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Visualization<\/h3>\n\n\n\n