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Seda plays Benefit Concert for AMREF

AMREF Benefit Concert PosterYou’re cordially invited to a special music event in Cambridge on September 25. Noted MIT piano instructor and Harvard Fellow Seda Röder will give a benefit concert at MIT’s Killian Hall focusing on contemporary German piano music.

The concert will explore the nexus between tradition and innovation. Ms. Röder will introduce each work of the program, which includes pieces by the following distinguished composers:

  • Alban Berg
  • Hans Werner Henze
  • Helmut Lachenmann
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Hans Tutschku

The final piece of the program, Hans Tutschku’s Zellen Linien, brings together “man and machine.” By adding computer-generated sounds to the live performance of the pianist, the audience will be able to experience a unique soundscape moving through a three-dimensional listening space.

Details

Where: Killian Hall. MIT
Rm. 14W-111, MIT Hayden Library Bldg, 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA
For a map click here
When: September 25, 2009 @ 8pm
Suggested donation is $10

Pre-concert podcasts and free recordings of the works are available on http://www.sedaroeder.com/MIT.

Blackbox #004: My Chamber Music Partner is a Computer!

 
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Hans Tutschku - http://www.tutschku.comWelcome to the fourth episode of Blackbox. This episode of Blackbox will introduce a composition that employs not only solo piano but also live-electronics: Zellen-Linien (Cells and Lines), composed by one of the most important electronic music composers of our time: Hans Tutschku. I will particularly focus on one fascinating aspect of this composition which is the interaction between computer and performer, and how this interaction affects the aural outcome of each performance.

Here is the full recording of the piece from my performance at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival:

<a href="http://music.sedaroeder.com/track/hans-tutschku-zellen-linien">Hans Tutschku &#8211; Zellen Linien by Seda Röder</a>

If you would like to listen to a live performance of Zellen-Linien, you are kindly invited to my upcoming performance at MIT’s Kilian Hall on September 25, at 8pm.

I am looking forward to seeing you there, and as always please let me know if you have any comments on this podcast either by simply emailing me at seda@sedaroeder.com or using the comments field below.

– Seda

Workshop @ MIT’s Composition Seminar

On November 14 Seda will perform pieces by Stockhausen, Lachenmann, and Henze for the composition seminar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA. The performance will be followed by an informal discussion with Prof. Peter Child and his students.