May, 29^th, 2009
8pm - Admission $15

Produced by Rough Idea
Charlotte Hug w/ Nick Storring
Graphic Scores & Strings

Charlotte Hug viola & voice in a room-score with son-Icons - Switzerland

"I use both hands and four pencils simultaneously to create these drawings as I listen to my own musical improvisations. Then I use these sonicons, as I call the resulting characters, for a score. Music and sonicons thus arise in a continuous circular process. I call them sonicons because they are not a precise representation of sound, but rather more like seismographic renderings, a visualisation and continuation of the music."

"The sonicons should also be semantically coherent, and not simply a sonic transcription. The eye often makes judgements other than those made by the ear. Its focus is elsewhere, and it perceives proportions differently. These incongruities interest me. In the end, the drawing that emerges serves as the template for a new improvisation, which in turn produces a new drawing, which then becomes music. The score is elaborated in each step of the process, and the music changes."

http://www.charlottehug.ch/

NICK STORRING
(solo and trio with Germaine Liu and Araz Salek) (CA)

Nick Storring will perform solo on cello,other strings and electronics.
and in a trio with Germaine Liu (percussion) and Araz Salek (tar, dutar)

Some composition and some improvisation.

http://www.nickstorring.com
http://www.arazsalek.com

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