2016 Festival of Contemporary Art Music

About the event

Thursday, March 3
Student Composers Concert
11:00am Kimbrough Concert Hall
The 2016 FOCAM Student Composers Concert features performances of new music written by WSU music students Lindsay Greene, Peter J. Kelley, Zachary Meier, Russell Schaff, Max Heinzmann, Kirill Polyanskiy, and Adrienne Fountain, performed by faculty and students. March 5 at 11am in Kimbrough Concert Hall.

Thursday, March 3
Faculty Composers Concert
8:00pm Bryan Hall Theatre

Friday, March 4
Electroacoustic Concert
3:00pm Kimbrough Concert Hall
The 2016 FOCAM Electroacoustic Music Concert will include music by WSU graduate student Lindsay Greene and faculty member Scott Blasco, Estonian composer Mirjam Tally, and renowned French composer Éliane Radigue.

Greene’s “Still” and Tally’s “Blow” both use recorded sounds from the composers’ surroundings to craft time through abstract and imaginative texture and color combinations, while Blasco’s “Stand at the Abyss” uses the composer’s own voice as its sound source, stretched and manipulated into a slowly-evolving soundscape. Radigue, a giant of electronic music, uses only a synthesizer rather than recorded sounds. Her “CHRY-PTUS” combines two unsynchronized drone-based tracks to create an arresting, immersive sound world that seems at once constantly shifting and unchanging.

This concert will last approximately 50 minutes,

Tuesday, March 8
Guest Ensemble Concert
8:00pm Bryan Hall Theatre
Contemporary cello, guitar, bassoon. Recent and established masterworks.