MICROFEST 2001
CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL OF MUSIC IN ALTERNATE TUNINGS

Conference Schedule

All events are free and open to the public

Thatcher Music Building is on the corner of Fourth and College at Pomona College. Balch Hall is at Scripps College, 1030 N. Columbia Ave. Maps are available at the conference home page

On-Going Events

TimeEventLocationNotes
On-goingRegistrationThatcher Music Building Lobby.
Approximate times: Program 1:
Friday 1:30-2:30; Saturday 11:15-12:15; Sunday 9:00-10:00; 12:30-1:30
Program 2:
Friday 3:45-4:45; Saturday 10:00-11:00; Sunday 10:00-11:00; 2:45-3:45
Program 3:
Friday 2:30-3:45; Saturday 9:00-10:00; Sunday 11:00-12:15; 1:30-2:45; 3:45-4:30
 ELECTRONIC MUSIC LISTENING ROOM

Program 1: audio works by Greg Schiemer, Jacky Ligon, Joseph Pehrson, Christopher Dobrian, Isamu Nakamatsu, Frederick Lesemann, Lydia Ayers.

Program 2: audio works by Warren Burt, Larry Polansky, Samuel Pellman, Amanda Cole, Joseph Pehrson, Neil Haverstick, and Lydia Ayers.

Program 3: videos with scores by Stephen James Taylor, John Strong Glasier, Jonathan Glasier, Harry Partch, Jeff Stayton, Lou Harrison, Brink McGoogy, Bill Alves, Brian McLaren.

Bryant Hall, Thatcher Music Building
On-going (hourly)Tritriadic Chimes by Terumi NarushimaThatcher Music BuildingHourly chimes in just intonation.
On-goingHarry Partch display of scores and other historic items.Thatcher Music Building Lobby display case.

Friday, April 6, 2001

TimeEventLocationNotes
12:15-1:00CONCERT I -- Microtonal music with Asian instruments by Bill Alves
Slendro Suite
Pelog Partita
Balch Hall, Scripps College
2:00-3:00Seminar with Lou HarrisonThatcher Music Building Room 109For students, but public is invited
3:00-5:45PAPER SESSION I
3:00Ralph Lorenz -- "19-tET in a Renaissance Chanson by Guillaume Costeley"
3:30Joe Monzo -- "Microtonality in Berlin and Vienna in the early 1900s"
4:15Alejandro L. Madrid -- "Grammatical and Syntactic Aspects of Sonido Trece: The Microtonal System of Julian Carrillo"
4:45Dudley Duncan -- "Visual Music: A Graphic Appreciation of Partch's Tuning"
5:15Brian McLaren -- "Alexei Ogolevets, Master Russian Microtonalist"
Thatcher Music Building Room 109
7:30Conference Welcome and Introduction to the Partch PiecesLyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
8:00CONCERT II -- Harry Partch: The Early Years. Performed by Just Strings
San Francisco: A Setting of the Cries of Two Newsboys on a Street Corner
My Heart Keeps Beating Time
Li Po Lyrics [excerpts]
Bitter Music: excerpts from hobo journal
U.S. Highball (film)
Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker's Inscriptions
Two Studies on Ancient Greek Scales
Letter from Hobo Pablo
Three Intrusions
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building

Saturday, April 7, 2001

TimeEventLocationNotes
9:00-11:15PAPER SESSION II
9:00Peter Adamczyk -- "An Acoustically-Based Theory and Approach to Quarter-Tone Piano Music"
9:30Thanassis Rikakis -- "A Practical Microtonal Pitch Space; Theoretical and Psychoacoustic Issues, Compositional Applications"
10:15Christopher Dobrian -- "Continually Variable Tunings and Timbres Realizable by Computer"
10:45Lydia Ayers and Andrew Horner -- "Common Tone Adaptive Tuning Using Genetic Algorithms"
Thatcher Music Building Room 109
1:15-2:45PAPER SESSION III
1:15Sean Griffin -- "Conjuring the Phantom: Practical and Poetic Use of a Missing Fundamental"
1:45Greg Schiemer -- "Transposed Hexanies"
2:15Kyle Gann -- "Navigating the Infinite Web of Pitch Space"
Thatcher Music Building Room 109
3:00CONCERT III
Opening Invocation for a Shadow PlayKraig Grady
For a Few Tones More Bill Wesley
StryxSean Griffin
The Floating Bubble Ron George
Tear Shahrokh Yadegari
ImprovisationRod Poole
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
7:00KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Lou HarrisonLyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
8:00CONCERT IV
2 LullabiesGeorge Zelenz
mind is moving (I)Michael Pisaro
Fibonacci Suite David Canright
The Floating Bubble Ron George
Custer and Sitting BullKyle Gann
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building

Sunday, April 8, 2001

TimeEventLocationNotes
9:00-10:45PAPER SESSION IV
9:00Peter Hulen -- "Non-Temperament: Pitch Relationships of the Harmonic Series as Interrelated Diatonic Sets for Composition"
9:30Drew Lesso -- "The Importance of the Whole and the Interdependence of Its Parts"
10:15Gennadiy Kogut -- "Mental Representations of Pitch-Structures" (given by Brian McLaren)
Thatcher Music Building Room 109
10:45-11:45Panel: A Discussion of Real-World Composition in Just Intonation, Equal Temperaments, and Non-Just Non-Equal-Tempered Tunings
Warren Burt and Brian McLaren		Thatcher Music Building Room 109
1:30-4:15PAPER SESSION V
1:30David Doty -- "Rational Microtonality: Some Approaches to Microtones in Seven-Limit (and Greater) Extended Just Intonation"
2:00Barbara Ferrell Hero and Robert Miller Foulkrod -- "Microtonalities of the Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard"
2:45Donald Bousted -- Making the Recorder Microtonal
3:15Erv Wilson -- "The Euler Genera and an Hyperdimensional Tone-lattice"
3:45Scott Hackleman -- "The Hackleman-Wilson 19-tone Clavichord"
Thatcher Music Building Room 109
4:30Conference DinnerFaculty Lounge, Humanities Building, Scripps CollegeExtra charge of $20; reservations required by March 15
7:30Bill Alves -- Tuning and the Music of Lou HarrisonLyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building
8:00CONCERT V -- Microtonal Music of Lou Harrison
Serenade for Guitar with Percussion
Suite from Young Caesar
Music for Corneille's Cinna
The Geography of Heaven
Threnody for Oliver Daniel
Serenade for Guitar (for Frank Wigglesworth)
Praises for Michael the Archangel
Suite for Harp
Threnody for Carlos Chavez
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building

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