We are once again excited about the premiere performance of Robert Morris’ Musics of the Sphere. This is a spatial audio composition made expressly for the 54.1 channel sound system of the AlloSphere, with no visuals, featuring the unique audio resolution of the instrument. The work is a 57-minute, fixed-media computer music composition in six tracks of spatially modulated sounds. The Allosphere is the perfect venue to present the piece where loudspeakers are placed around and above and below the listeners.
Musics of the Sphere is a celebration of “musics” from all over the world. Over 150 excerpts of all types of music from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe comprise the sounds in each track. These “musics” are presented as such (without modification) to partial and complete transformation via a host of computer music techniques.
Please click on the graphic below sign up for reserve seating on a first come first serve basis.
Please forward all interested acquaintances, colleagues, and friends to the AlloSphere website (https://allosphere.ucsb.edu/) to sign up for either Thursday or Friday evening on the linked Google Form.
Reserve all seating by Wednesday, October 12th at 11:59pm.
All reserved seating will be confirmed by email on the morning of Oct. 13th.
For the Thursday evening performances seating is limited to 12 seats per performance.
All Thursday, October 13th performances will start promptly at 6, 7, & 8 pm for a 57 minute work.
The Friday October 14th evening will be a walk in installation. Freely open to the public beginning at 6 pm.
Dr. Robert Morris is an internationally known composer and music scholar, having written over 180 compositions including computer and improvisational music and music to be performed out of doors, as well as four books and over 70 articles and reviews. Since 1980, he has taught at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester as Professor of Composition and affiliate member of the Theory and Musicology Departments, and at present interim Chair of the Composition Department. His many compositions have been performed in North and South America, Europe, Australia, and Japan. Morris's music is recorded on Albany Records, Attacca, Centaur, Composers Recordings Incorporated, Fanfare, Music and Arts, Music Gallery Editions, New World, Neuma, Open Space, and Renova.
Musics of the Sphere was composed to be presented in the AlloSphere. The work is a 57 minutes-long fixed- media computer music composition in six tracks of spatially modulated sounds. Therefore, the Allosphere is the perfect venue to present the piece where loudspeakers are placed around and above and below the listeners.
Musics of the Sphere is a celebration of musics from all over the world. Over 150 excerpts of all types of music from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe comprise the sounds in each track. These musics are presented as such (without modification) to partial and complete transformation via a host of computer music techniques. This composition is not the first of mine that uses “world musics.” In 1973, I composed a 45-minute electronic piece in four tracks called Thunder of Spring over distant Mountains. This piece was based on seven pieces of Asian and south-Asian music.
If you have any problems or questions, please contact us directly at allosphere-hub@ucsb.edu.