{"57836":{"#nid":"57836","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Acclaimed Georgia Tech Composer to Premiere Flock","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHaving received national acclaim and rave reviews for his Carnegie Hall debut work Glimmer (2004), Georgia Tech assistant professor of music Jason Freeman premieres his newest work \u0022Flock\u0022 at Miami\u0027s new Carnival Center for the Performing Arts December 6 through 8. Freeman\u0027s work has been hailed as \u0022addictive and fun\u0022 by USA Today.com and \u0022an example of the web\u0027s mind-expanding possibilities\u0022 by Billboard.com.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Flock, the audience plays a central role in creating a ground-breaking world premiere event, with the help of computers, dancers from the New World School of the Arts, and members of the Miami Saxophone Quartet. The audience and musicians are invited to wander around the performance space while their movements are captured by video cameras, generating a score in real time that is performed by the quartet. Freeman, along with Georgia Tech collaborators Frank Dellaert and Mark Godfrey, developed the software program that transforms these movements into musical notes. The notes are transmitted to wireless displays that are mounted on each instrument and show the score for each musician to play. The movement data is also transformed by Pratt Institute professor Liubo Borissov into a live video projection that serves as the backdrop for the performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EExploring new connections between composers, performers, and audiences, the piece takes off in a new direction every night, each time a new flock of spectators becomes part of the collaboration.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECommissioned and developed by Carnival Center\u0027s MIAMI MADE program, Flock is produced by Gustavo Matamoros and iSAW, a not-for-profit arts organization devoted to the support of experimental music and sound art through artist residencies, concert presentations and other outreach activities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA seasoned composer and media artist, Freeman is currently an assistant professor of music in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale University, which also awarded him the Louis Sudler prize, the highest honor to a graduating senior in the arts. He received an M.A. and D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University, studying with Fred Lerdahl, Sebastian Currier, and Joseph Dubiel.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis performance is created in collaboration with iSAW and with the support of the Funding Arts Network, Inc., the Georgia Tech Foundation, and the GVU Center at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFlock takes contemporary music to new heights.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27213","created_gmt":"2007-11-26 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:43","author":"Teri Nagel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2007-11-26T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57837":{"id":"57837","type":"image","title":"Flock takes contemporary music to new heights.","body":null,"created":"1449176187","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:56:27","changed":"1475894508","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:48","alt":"Flock takes contemporary music to new heights.","file":{"fid":"190680","name":"tky96976.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tky96976_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tky96976_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1306821,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tky96976_0.jpg?itok=S_VQX4IX"}},"63089":{"id":"63089","type":"image","title":"Jason Freeman","body":null,"created":"1449176649","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:04:09","changed":"1475894552","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:32","alt":"Jason Freeman","file":{"fid":"191727","name":"Jason_Freeman_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jason_Freeman_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jason_Freeman_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2957894,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jason_Freeman_0_0.jpg?itok=e7j3OWRp"}}},"media_ids":["57837","63089"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.carnivalcenter.org\/tickets\/tickets\/production.aspx?performanceNumber=1518","title":"Tickets"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.carnivalcenter.org\/","title":"Carnival Center"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.carnivalcenter.org\/perform\/miamimade.aspx","title":"MIAMI MADE"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech College of Architecture"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.coa.gatech.edu\/music\/","title":"Georgia Tech Music Department"}],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"143","name":"Digital Media and Entertainment"},{"id":"148","name":"Music and Music Technology"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"9747","name":"art basel"},{"id":"9745","name":"carnival center"},{"id":"1936","name":"Center for Music Technology"},{"id":"926","name":"College of Architecture"},{"id":"5904","name":"flock"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"1346","name":"Jason Freeman"},{"id":"9746","name":"miami made"},{"id":"1309","name":"music technology"},{"id":"167096","name":"school of music"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}