When: 
Friday, March 4, 2016 - 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: 
Williams Center for the Arts
Presenter: 
Music Department
Price: 
Free

Electronic Music Concert with Kirk O’Riordan and special guests Jorge Torres, guitar, and Larry Stockton, percussion

Join composer – conductor – saxophonist Kirk O’Riordan of Lafayette’s music department as he presents a world premiere of new works written specifically for the March 4 electronic music concert at the Williams Center. 

As a collection, these pieces explore a variety of influences, such as improvisation, minimalism, and popular music; they seek to combine and juxtapose these influences in ways that challenge the norm. 

Program notes: 

“Some pieces are fully notated, some partially others not at all. In any case, my goal was to create electronic music that has an elastic, almost human qualitymusic that is not rigidly constrained by its electronic-ness but not devoid of those qualities I admire in successful acoustic compositions: form, melodic development, timbral balance and contrast, and expressive potential.” — Kirk O'Riordan

Two music faculty colleagues will join O'Riordan: Larry Stockton (performing "flare") for marimba and synthesizer; and Jorge Torres ("orbits") on a more abstract piece, using two loopers for guitar and an iPad app called "Orbita" that creats very soothing pitch loops.

Gear includes a Dave Smith Instruments Prophet-12 synth (funded by the Digital Humanities Committee) and an Ensoniq VFX-SD (a synth from 1990!). O’Riordan will use a Macbook Air for playback and live effects processing for saxophone. And an iPad.  

For more, visit www.kirkoriordan.com; Follow on Twitter: @Kirkoriordan

Sponsored by Lafayette's music department.

 

Sponsored by: 
Music Department

Contact information

Name: 
Professor Kirk O'Riordan
Phone: 
610-330-5359
Email: 
oriordak@lafayette.edu