The Virtual Concert Hall
London, England


Written, hosted and produced by Paul Rudy 
for Resonsance FM (104.4), London, England
May, 2002-May, 2003

The sound world of The Virtual Concert Hall ranges from amplified acoustic instruments to totally unrecognizable sounds from natural and created environments.  Programs focus on a wide variety of electroacoustic works from the setting of the twentieth, and the dawning of the twenty-first century.  Created in partnership between the Intermedia Music Production and Computer Technology Center, and the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Conservatory, and the Sonic Arts Network.


Program 1 (May 18, 2002)

Live 2hr. Broadcast with Special Guests


Denis Smalley
Base Metals
(IMED 0054)
John Young
SJU
(University of Waikato UWMD 1200)
Simon Emmerson  
Andrew Hugill
Clinamen
Rob Godman
 eye speak
(En Red O 2000-Electric Songs compilation. VIII Simposio de Musica Electoacustica
Simon Atkinson
Nocturne
Adrian Moore
Sea of Singularity
Jonty Harrison
Streams
(IMED 0052)
Stephen Montague
Tigida Pipa
(Continuum CCD 1061)
Paul Rudy
Thema: Omaggio

 
 
Program 2 (June 15, 2002)

Thrummed Strings


Natashia Barrett
 Surf
Francois Dhomont
 Encuerdas
(INNOVA 117)
Stephan Roy
 Mimetismo
(IMED 9639)
Rodrigo Sigal
 Dolor en Mi
(CIEM 006)
John Gibson
 Thrum
(CDCM vol. 29)

 
Program 3 (June 22, 2002)

Atmospheres



  
Todor Todoroff
 Feflets/Vitesse
João Pedro Oliveira
Ocean Observatory
(Numérica NUM 1075)
Hildegard Westerkamp
Gently Penetrating
(Earsay es98005)
Barry Schroeder
 Triptych

 
Program 4 (June 29, 2002)

Theatre for the Ear


Simon Hall
 Dhyana
Denis Smalley
 Wind Chimes
(IMED 9209-CD)
Jukka Ruohomaki
 Viltoja
(JASECD 0029)
Randall Smith
 Collision
Jonty Harrison
 Unsound Objects
(IMED 9627)

 
Program 5 (July 6, 2002)

Electroacoustic Music Retrospective


Tangerine Dream
 Phaedra
(Virgin V2-86064
Morton Subotnick
 Silver Apples of the Moon Pt. B
(Wergo WER 2035-2)
Jean-Claude Risset
 Mutations
(INA-GRM INA C 1003)
Michel Chion
 Libera Me from Requiem
(IMED 9312-CD)

 
Program 6 (July 13, 2002)

Pendulums and Pinballs


Todor Todoroff
 Rupture d’équilibre
Paul Koonce
 Pins
(MODE 90)
Laurie Radford
 Flit
Stelios Giannoulakis
 The Maze
Robert Scott Thompson
The Widening Gyre
(EMF CD 034)

 
Program 7 (July 20, 2002)

Classical Music Sources


Roger Cochini
 Chaste Fleur, Mon Capitaine…
(GMEB LDC 278 1103)
Charles Dodge
 Any Resemblance is Purely Cooincidental
(New Albion NA 043 CD)
Yves Daoust
 Adagio
(IMED 9106 CD)
Lisa Daoust, flute
Yves Daoust
 Improptu
(IMED 9843)
Paul Doldan
 L’ivresse de la vitesse 
(IMED 9917/18)

 
Program 8 (July 27, 2002)

Sounds from the Natural World


Jukka Ruohomaki
 Luscinia
(JASE CD 0029)
Robert Mackay
 Sea Pictures
Hildegard Westerkamp
 Beneath the Forrest Floor
(IMED 9631)
Bernard Parmigiani
 Creation of the World (partial) 
 -Lumiere
 -Jeux de configurations
(INA-GRM 244 372)
Program 9 (August 3, 2002)

Contraptions, Gadgets, Mousetraps and Paper


Chris Cree-Brown
 Iron Pebbles and Gold Dust
John Cousins
 SSAUFHAAPT
Rachel MacInturff
 Origami Animae
(SEAMUS EAM 9901)
Mark Applebaum
 Mousetrap Music
 #2
 #3
 #4
 #5
 #6
 #7
 #9
 #8
(INNOVA 511)
Mark Applebaum, mountraps

 
Program 10 (August 10, 2002)

Folk Instrument Extensions


Larry Austin
 Tarogato!
Esther Lamneck, tarogato
Jack Body
Fanfares
(CD MANU 1380)
Denis Smalley
Pente
(IMED 0054)
John Cousins
Songs for the Little Lady

 
Program 11 (August 18, 2002)

Hyper Piano


Mario Davidovsky
Synchronism No. 6
(New World Records 80412-2)
Fred Bronstein, piano
David Hainsworth
Shady Origins
(INA-GRM 247 982)
Robert Normandeau
Figures de Rhetorique
(IMED 9944)
Joseph Benzola
John Cage
Cort Lippe
Music for Piano and Computer
(SEAMUS Vol. 8 EAM 9901)
Yoshiiko Shibuya, piano

 
Program 12 (August 24, 2002)

Stellar Points and Dreamy Webs


Matt Adkins
deepfield
Marco Pavin
Electric Dream
Marco Pavin, guitar
Bill Alves
Bending Space
(EMF CD 002)
Bernard Donzel-Gargand
Toile de sons
(Plate Lunch PL 12)

 
Program 13 (August 31, 2002)

Percussive Vibrations


Jon Christopher Nelson
Other Terrains
(SEAMUS EAM 2000)
John Colaruotolo, Thomas Dell' Omo, Rich Malloy and Christopher Vigneron, percussion
Mario Verandi
Evil Fruit
Alejandra Hernandez
Pies, para que los quierro
Diege Espinosa, percussion
John Allemeier
Vade Mecum
Doug Michael
Velvet
Jonty Harrison
Et ainsi de suite 1-3
(IMED 9627)

 
Program 14 (Sept. 7, 2002)

Swing Machine


Per Anders Nilsson 
Susana Lindeborg
Ove Johansson
Natural Artifacts 1-6
(LJCD 52280)
Per Anders Nilsson, computer' Susan Lindeborg, piano; and Ove Johansson, tenor sax
Steve Reich
Electric Counterpoint
(Marco Pavin, Guitar)
Paul Steenhuisen
Now is Creature
Benny Sluchin, trombone
Jarmo Sermilla
Einsame Seelen
(JASE CD 0025)
Jarmo Sermilla, trumpet; Teppo Hauta-aho, bass; Jari Hongisto, trombone; Emil Viklicky, piano
Program 15 (Sept. 14, 2002)

Electroacoustic Stories


John Cousins
The Quarter
John Cousins, voice
Anna Rubin/Laurie Hollander
Family Stories: Sophie, Sally
Vivian Adelberg Rudow
With Love
Paula Skolnick-Virizlay-Childress, cello

 
Program 16 (Sept. 21, 2002)

Rhythmic Explorations


 
Mark Wingate
Ode to the South Facing Form
(CDCM CRC 2245)
Adrian Moore
Junky
(IMED 0053)
Mathew Adkins
mapping
(INA-GRM 247 982)
John Young
Time, Motion, and Memory
(IMED 0261)

 
Program 17 (Sept. 28, 2002)

Night Music


Ludger Brummer
Nyx
(Bourges LCD 278074/75)
HIdeko Kawamoto
Night Ascends From the Ear Like a Butterfly
(Accademia Musicale Pescarese AMP 2002)
Larisa Montanaro
Moon
Larisa Montanaro, soprano
Kazuo Uehara
Morning Becomes Electric
(Moonbridge MBR10023)
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel, shakuhachi; Kazuo Uehara, synthesizer

 
Program 18 (Oct. 5, 2002)

Virtual Ensembles


Natashia Barrett
Imago
Ben Harlan, clarinets; Hanna Marshal, cello
Hans Tutschku
Les Invisibles
(INA-GRM 247 982)
Scott Wyatt
Aftermath
Paul Koonce
Walkabout
(mode 90)

 
Program 19 (Oct. 12, 2002)

Flute Extensions


Andrew May
The Twittering Machine
(EMF CD 025)
Elizabeth McNutt, flute
Michele Biasutti
Trasparenze
Pierluigi Tabacchin
Chris Cree-Brown
Sound Cylanders
Tony Ferner, flute
Philippe Manoury
Jupiter
(EMF CD 025)
Elizabeth McNutt, flute

 
Program 20 (Oct. 19, 2002)

Disembodied Voices


Simon Emmerson
Time Past IV
(Bouges LCD 278074/75)
Jane Manning, Soprano
David Downes
Descending
(Grumption GMP 1001)
Christian Eloy
Musica Mundana
(IMA-GRM 275-832)
Irène Jarsky, voice
Edmund Mooney
chorale continuo

 
Program 21 (Oct. 26, 2002)

Electric String Quartet


George Crumb
Black Angels
(Elektra Nonesuch 9 79242-2)
Kronos Quartet
João Pedro Oliveira
Labirinto
Stephen Montague
String Quartet No. 1
(Continuum CCD 1061)
Smith Quartet

 
 
Program 22 (Nov. 2, 2002)

Requiem MASSes


Simon Hall
 Mass Utterance, Kyrie
Michele Chion
Requiem
 I-Requiem Aeternam
II-Kyrie Eleison
III-Epitre
IV-Dies Irae
(IMED 9312 CD)
Adrian Moore
Requiem
 Tuba mirum
Rex tremendae
Recordare 
Confutatis
 Lacrimosa
Michele Chion
Requiem
 V-Domine Deus VI-Evangile
VII-Sanctus
VIII-Pater Noster-
 Agnus Dei
IX-Lux Aeterna
X-Libera Me
(IMED 9312 CD)

 
Program 23 (Nov. 9, 2002)

Jazz and Blues


Larry Austin
  Blues Ax
(Centaur CRC 2428)
Stephen Duke, Alto Sax
Simon Hall
Jazzthing
Per Anders Nilsson 
Susana Lindeborg
Ove Johansson
 Natural Artifacts (7-12)
(LJCD 5228)

 
 
Program 24 (Nov. 16, 2002)
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Program 25 (Nov. 23, 2002)
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The Vitural Concert Hall is produced in the iMPACT
Center at the Conservatory of Music
on the Univeristy of Missouri at Kansas City Campus.

Brent Miller and Julia Aflord-Fowler provide production assistance

To submit electroacoustic works for consideration
on the Virtual Concert Hall please send a CD to:

The Virtual Concert Hall
c/o Paul Rudy, Producer
Assistant Professor of Composition
UMKC Conservatory of Music
4949 Cherry
Kansas City, MO 64110-2229
USA


created 8/3/02 by paul rudy