Resident Composer Michael Gordon joins Georgia Tech’s Sonic Generator Monday Feb. 8
Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8 p.m.
Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center, 1280 Peachtree Street
Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble-in-residence, Sonic Generator, will feature the music of
resident composer Michael Gordon in a free performance in partnership with the Woodruff Arts
Center. Promising a unique experience in live music, creativity, and technology, the concert is part of
Tech’s T. Gordon Little Lecture Series in the Imagination.
The program showcases Gordon’s strikingly diverse music and his unique approaches to technology and
to film. I Buried Paul (1996) draws inspiration from an unusual moment in the Beatles’ Strawberry Fields
Forever, while Weather One (2005) compares the history of art to the unpredictability of the weather. The
program also includes ac dc (1996) and a trio of selections from Gordon’s album Light is Calling (2004),
which expertly mixes acoustic instruments and electronics with films by Bill Morrison.
Gordon's music merges subtle rhythmic invention with incredible power embodying "the fury of punk
rock, the nervous brilliance of free jazz and the intransigence of classical modernism,” in the words of
The New Yorker's Alex Ross. He has been commissioned by Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, the BBC
Proms and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, among others, and he has been honored by the Guggenheim
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is
Co-Founder and Co-Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Bang on a Can Festival.
Sonic Generator, Georgia Tech’s chamber music ensemble-in-residence, explores the ways in which
technology can transform how we create, perform and listen to music. The ensemble, comprised of some
of the top classical musicians in Atlanta, works closely with Georgia Tech faculty in the GVU Center and
the Center for Music Technology to present concerts that bring cutting-edge technologies to the world of
contemporary classical music. Sonic Generator was recently recognized by Atlanta Magazine in its 2009
"Best of Atlanta" list. Its concerts routinely attract a standing-room-only crowd.
Sonic Generator is sponsored by the GVU Center, which seeks to advance the state of the art of the
interaction between people, computing machines and information. The concert series is organized in
collaboration with the Center for Music Technology and the School of Music in the College of
Architecture. These entities champion advancements in creativity, expression, and human-computer
interaction through research and education at Georgia Tech.
For 40 years, the Woodruff Arts Center has set the arts standard for Atlanta and the Southeast. Since its
inception, the Center has grown into the most dynamic center for the visual and performing arts in the
South and is among the top such centers in the nation. Located in Midtown, the Center offers a bold
variety of performing and visual arts - both traditional and avant-garde. Today the Woodruff Arts Center
includes the Alliance Theatre, High Museum of Art, Young Audiences and the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra.
For more information, visit http://www.sonicgenerator.gatech.edu.