Ciclo 2015-2016
05/12/2015 - 15 Horas Torre B Auditório 2
Barry Truax
School of Communication and School for the Contempora Simon Fraser University
Soundscape Composition as Context Creation: From the Real to the Virtual
Soundscape composition, as pioneered by the World Soundscape a genre, often intimately located to place, within an e concept. "context-based composition," where real-world con the design. of aurally-based work at the level of organization. and ultimately the work's placement with contexts. Most significantly, listeners are encouraged knowledge of real-world contexts into their participation.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Barry Truax is a Professor Emeritus in the School of Communication and formerly the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University where he taught course communication and electroacoustic music. He worked with the World Soundscape Proj Handbook for Acoustic Ecology. and has published a book Acoustic Communication = aspects of sound and technology. As a composer, Truax is best known for his wor computer music system which he has used to create tape solo works, music theatre with live performers or computer graphics. A selection of these pieces may b Compact Dises Digital Soundscapes. Pacific Rim, Song of Songs, Inside, Twin Spirit Journies, and The Elements and Beyond, all on the Cambridge Street Records double CD of the opera Powers of Two. In 1991 his work, Riverrun, was awarded the the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music in Bourges, France. Truax" soundscape compositions are frequently featured in concerts and festivals around m currently the Edgard Varèse Guest Professor at the TU in Berlin.
Organizado por Isabel Pires e o Grupo de Investigação em Música Contemporârea
