Nathaniel Bartlett/Sound-Space Audio Lab

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Experimental electronic composer Nathaniel Bartlett presents a concert of immersive audio recordings designed specifically for a high-definition eight-speaker sound system. The performance includes a rendition of Edgar Varèse’s “Poème Électronique” from the 1958 Brussels World Fair, one of the first pieces of surround-sound electronic music. Bartlett’s own recordings combine unearthly machine sounds and marimba.

press release: A concert of immersive (three-dimensional surround sound) fixed media works including Edgard Varèse’s seminal composition Poème Électronique, written for Le Corbusiers’s Philips Pavilion at the 1958 Brussels World Fair, and recent works by Nathaniel Bartlett, created during time (2014-2017) in the high desert of Northern New Mexico. All works presented on an audience-immersing, eight-channel (cube), high-definition loudspeaker array.

Reservations are encouraged.  Doors open at 2:30 PM. Reservations valid until 2:55 PM. At 2:55 PM,those without reservations will be seated. Free, donations encouraged

program:

1 • Poème Électronique (1958) • electronic sound • composer: Edgard

Varèse • fixed media

Works 2-7 composed by Nathaniel Bartlett: 

2 • impulse response (2016) • four percussionists playing six snare

drums each • fixed media 

3 • neoteric topology (excerpt 1) (2015) • marimba and mallet/body-

tracking computer interface; real-time three-dimensional, high-

definition, computer-generated sound; and real-time computer notation

processing • fixed media 

4 • solar sequence (excerpt) (2017) • four glockenspiels • eight-

channel cube loudspeaker array • fixed media 

5 • cronometro_bugbee_duo (2015) • percussion duo • fixed media 

6 • apical topography (2015) • solo percussion • fixed media 

7 • neoteric topology (excerpt 2)