RICERCAR IN GREEN, audio-visual performance
Brad Decker - contrabass and computer
Zlatko Ćosić - videos, live processing, documentation and editing
"Ricercar", for contrabass and computer, 2017 - Brad Decker
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Music, Music Building Auditorium, October 26, 2017
A ricercar is traditionally a contrapuntal work that imitates one or more themes. Decker's work is influenced by the performance style of contrabassist Bertram Turetzky, an innovator in modern extended techniques, who recorded “Ricercar a 3” by Robert Erickson in 1967. Like Erickson’s work from 50 years ago, which uses tape recording techniques to simulate a three-voice canon, this work utilizes a computer application created in Max to record and playback two additional imitative layers. This ricercar imitates three points of imitation, based upon Turetzky’s techniques - touch, wood, and bow.
:: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Music, Music Building Auditorium, October 26, 2017
:: MOXsonic, Missouri Experimental Sonic Arts Festival, University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, March 10, 2018
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