CCRMA / Ars Electronica

Recital a Stanford, Convergence, Ars Electronica

Recital a Stanford, Convergence e fili legati ad Ars Electronica

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Aleksander Gabryś with John Chowning after a CCRMA recital, standing with a double bass.
With John Chowning after the CCRMA recital, Stanford University, 2020.

The double bass becomes a site for collaboration with composers, electronics, space, gesture, and live processing.

Double bass, augmented double bass, electronics, voice, live processing, and composer-collaboration contexts.

Stanford recital, electronic performance, and Prix Ars Electronica recognition.

Collaborations around new works for double bass and electronics

A public reference point for composers, institutions, and curators interested in expanded double-bass performance, notation, physical technique, vocal material, electronics, and live processing.

Interpretazione elettronica

Materiali di interpretazione elettronica

Aleksander Gabryś: New Works by Graduate Composers

CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, February 7, 2020

CCRMA recital with Aleksander Gabryś performing new works for double bass by Stanford composers and a work by Agata Zubel.

Convergence

Augmented double bass and electronics performer

Douglas McCausland's page presents Convergence as a work for augmented double bass and electronics performer, written for Aleksander Gabryś and developed with him.

Convergence

Video trace of Douglas McCausland's Convergence, a work for augmented double bass and electronics performer, written for Aleksander Gabryś and developed in collaboration with him.

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Prix Ars Electronica 2021 recognition

CyberArts 2021: Digital Musics & Sound Art

CyberArts 2021 lists Douglas McCausland's Convergence in Digital Musics & Sound Art as an Award of Distinction work.

Recording session fragment I

A short public recording and process video connected to CCRMA / Convergence.

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Recording session fragment II

A second short public recording and process video connected to CCRMA / Convergence.

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Chris Lortie / Aleksander Gabryś at CCRMA

A video from another Stanford composer collaboration at CCRMA.

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Residency moments

Stanford / CCRMA, 2020

Teaching, composer meetings, and institutional traces around the February 2020 Stanford University / CCRMA visit.

Aleksander Gabryś teaching with a double bass at Stanford University / CCRMA.
Teaching course at Stanford University / CCRMA, 2020.
Group portrait at Stanford University with Aleksander Gabryś, Peter Ablinger, Patricia Alessandrini, and another colleague.
With Peter Ablinger and Patricia Alessandrini at Stanford University / CCRMA, 2020.

Contesto

Un recital a Stanford, un successivo riconoscimento di Ars Electronica e un filo precedente legato a Linz

Stanford recital

Aleksander Gabryś: New Works by Graduate Composers was presented at the CCRMA Stage, The Knoll, on February 7, 2020. Aleksander Gabryś performed new works for double bass by Stanford composers Douglas McCausland, Chris Lortie, Hassan Estakhrian, Davor Vincze, Erik Ulman, and a work by Agata Zubel.

Convergence / Prix Ars Electronica 2021

Douglas McCausland’s Convergence is a work for augmented double bass and electronics performer, written for Aleksander Gabryś and developed in collaboration with him. It received an Award of Distinction at Prix Ars Electronica 2021.

Convergence appeared in Digital Musics & Sound Art at Ars Electronica CyberArts 2021.

Recording and process videos

Two short videos from Aleksander Gabryś’s YouTube show recording-session fragments: fragment I and fragment II.

The Chris Lortie / Aleksander Gabryś video shows another Stanford composer collaboration from the CCRMA context.

Earlier Ars Electronica thread

A second, older Ars Electronica thread reaches back to 1999, when Eco-Ethno-Polish-Mountains-Sphæroid appeared at the festival.