“Exposed Wiring II: Music of Humans & Machines” will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the School of Music Recital Hall. Guest artists will be Cameron Britt, Susan Fancher, Scott Herring, Serena Hill, and Norbert Lewandowski. The concert is the last of Southern Exposure’s 2004–05 season.
“The concert celebrates the range and possibilities of musical technology,” said John Fitz Rogers, an assistant professor of composition in the School of Music and artistic director of the Southern Exposure New Music Series.

The program will include "Rebonds," by Iannis Xenakis, featuring Cameron Britt and Scott Herring, percussion. Xenakis, who pioneered the use of computers to compose in the 1960s, is considered one of the most radical and important composers of the 20th century.

"Corail," by Edmund Campion, will feature tenor saxophone and interactive electronics. Susan Fancher, tenor saxophone, will perform. Campion is an associate professor of music at the University of California at Berkeley, where he also is the composer in residence at the Center for New Music and AudioTechnologies.

"Inner World," by Carl Vine, will feature solo cello and electronic sound, with Norbert Lewandowski on cello. "Lonh," by Kaija Saariaho, is for solo soprano, interactive computer, and electronics. “Lonh,” meaning far away or distant, comes from the old Provençal language, in which the text is sung. The text is attributed to the mediaeval troubadour Jaufré Rudel. Serena Hill, soprano, will perform.

"Once Removed," by Rogers, will feature two marimbas and “click tracks.”

"'Once Removed’ is based on a simple premise: two marimbists play the same or related music at a fairly fast tempo, but they almost never play together,” Rogers said. “Individually, each performer must execute fairly simple patterns with great rhythmic precision, and to help, each listens to different but steady ‘clicking’ beats over headphones supplied by the left and right channels of an audio CD.”

Britt, a percussionist, who has performed with the N.C. Symphony, teaches percussion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has previously taught at Claflin University, North Carolina State University, and Governor's School of North Carolina.

Fancher’s career has featured hundreds of concerts internationally as a soloist and as the member of chamber music ensembles, including the Red Clay, Amherst, Vienna, and Rollin’ Phones saxophone quartets. She is a clinician for the Selmer and Vandoren companies.

Herring is an assistant professor of percussion at USC, where he directs the Percussion Ensemble and the Palmetto Pans Steel Band. Previously he was an assistant professor of percussion and assistant director of bands at Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan.

Hill is a graduate of USC with an MM in vocal performance and holds a BM degree from the University of North Alabama. Upcoming engagements include a series of concerts with the Arpad Daraz Singers in May 2005.

Lewandowski, who holds a Master’s degree in performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., is in his third year as assistant principal cellist of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. His cello was made by Emil Hjorth in Copenhagen in 1890 and is on loan from the Virtu Foundation in Charlottesville, Va.

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