MUSIC AND WATER FESTIVAL

Water Walk—Sunday, April 22, 2007 • 2pm

The Sunday afternoon concert of April 22, entitled “Water Walk”, was a long (three-hour) program featuring works which examine the human relationship with water as well as the musical qualities of water and other environmental sounds. Presented in collaboration with the College of Santa Fe Contemporary Music Program, the concert alternated live acoustic works with presentations of recorded electroacoustic soundpieces. The concert environment did not remain constant, but was in a kind of water cycle of changing states and sonic systems.

No traditional musical instruments appeared in the concert. John Cage was again represented by two works, But What About the Noise of… for water and paper, and Inlets for conch shells. CSF professor Steven Miller presented his electroacoustic composition “Points of Origin,” while SFNM Artistic Director John Kennedy presented his O Waters, a wordless setting of a Gary Snyder poem using natural sounds. Electroacoustic multi-channel works were represented by soundart legends Annea Lockwood, Jean-Claude Risset, Barry Truax, and Hildegard Westerkamp.

Program:

Featuring: Angela Gabriel, John Kennedy, David Tolen, acoustic sounds; Steven Miller, curatorial collaboration