Tornado Project

Russell Pinkston's e++ for Tornado Project released on SEAMUS's CD Collection

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:27:59 PST

A CD release of the Tornado Project! Russell Pinkston's e++ to be released on the SEAMUS's CD volume Purchase at: http://www.cdemusic.org/

Also at cdemusic, all EMF Media CDs, including Elizabeth McNutt's solo CD Pipe Wrench, are currently on sale for 50% off.

The Tornado Project

Mara Helmuth joins the Tornado-Project.org

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:13:17 PDT

The Tornado-project.org proudly announce composer Mara Helmuth as a new member of the project! Her new work for Esther Lamneck and Elisabeth McNutt is premiered on October 6th, Cincinnati, USA.

Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music - Guest Artist Series -
Wed., Oct. 6, 8 p.m. The Tornado Duo The exciting Tornado-project.org, with Esther Lamneck and Elizabeth Mcnutt will perform new works for flute, clarinet and electronics.

Location: Cohen Family Studio Theater
Admission: Free

Mara Helmuth is a composer of music which often involves the computer in performance and composition. Sound Collaborations, v.36 of the Consortium to Distribute Computer Music Series on Centaur Records includes mostly interactive compositions. Collaborations with percussionist-composer Allen Otte are heard on the Electronic Music Foundation compact disk Implements of Actuation, and tape work on Open Space CD 16. She is on the faculty ofthe College-Conservatory for Music, University of Cincinnati and director of its Center for Computer Music. She holds a D.M.A. from Columbia University, and previous degrees were from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her fixed format music includes Mellipse (1989,1995), Abandoned Lake in Maine (1997) and bugs and ice: A Question of Focus (2002). Her writings have appeared in the monographs Audible Tracesand Analytical Methods of Electroacoustic Music, and in the Journal of New Music Research and Perspectives of New Music. Her software for composition and improvisation has involved granular synthesis, the RTcmix music programming language, user interfaces and Internet2. Recent work includes Where is my Voice, for fixed format audio, the Hidden Mountain (2007) and Staircase of Light (2003) interactive installations for the Sino-Nordic Performance Arts Space in Beijing, an Internet 2 application for improvisation: Soundmesh, and updates to StochGran, an RTcmix-based granular synthesis application. She is currently the ICMA president. She also plays theqin, a Chinese zither.

Recent Music by Mara Helmuth

Mara Helmuth and Alan Bern performing The Man and the Moon at ICMC in Belfast, 2008.

Sound ExcerptsPublish Post

The Man and the Moon by Bern/Helmuth (excerpt of the work from Sound Collaborations on Centaur Records, CRC 2903)

Smoke by Helmuth/VanMatre for saxophones and computer (excerpt, from Sound Collaborations on Centaur Records, CRC 2903)

No. 7 for Gyil and Computer (excerpt, from Sound Collaborations on Centaur Records, CRC 2903) by Helmuth/Otte, performed by Allen Otte.

Implements of Actuation (excerpt, from the CD of the same name on EMF’s cdemusic website) by Helmuth/Otte, performed by Allen Otte.

Loonspace (excerpt, from EMF’s cdemusic website), performed by Allen Otte.

Complete Pieces

Where is My Voice? for stereo audio. text: Steve Sunderland. 6:00. 2008.

Butterfly Within for flute and stereo audio. performed by Bradley Garner. 6:00. 2006.

Loonspace for percussion trio and stereo audio. performed by Percussion Group Cincinnati. 2001.

Mellipse for stereo audio. 1989.

Recordings
Sound Collaborations, a compact disk of collaborations with Alan Bern, Ming Ke, Allen Otte, Rick VanMatre and Anna VanMatre. 2007. Centaur Records, v. 36 of Consortium to

Distribute Computer Music CRC 2903.

Meeting the Free Dreamer appears on Open Space CD 16, released in 2004.
Implements of Actuation, a compact disc of collaborations with percussionist-composer Allen Otte (2001), is available from the Electronic Music Foundation at CDeMUSIC or

EMF Media.

Interactive Computer Works

Improvisation with Qin, Percussion and Computer No. 3, 2007. 10 min.

Mara Helmuth performing on qin at Town Hall, Cincinnati, Dec. 2005. photo by Keith Wahle.
Improvisation with Qin, for qin and computer. 2005. 10 min. download qt movie (6.1MB)

The Man and the Moon for accordion and computer. with Alan Bern. 2004. 15 min.

Smoke for tenor and soprano saxophones and computer with Rick Van Matre, and graphite painting installation by Anna VanMatre. 2004. 16 min.

Inchoate Energies for piano and electronics. 2004. 7 min.

China Prism for dancer and interactive light sensor installation. 2004. variable duration.

Instruments + Computer Works
Meeting the Free Dreamer (revision) 2008 for piano and computer. 9 min.

Light Descends Into Your Heart, 2008 version for piano and computer, 5 minutes.

Butterfly Within for flute and computer. 2006. 5 min.

Primary Materials for percussion trio and computer. 2006. 10 min.

No. 7 for Gyil and Computer. with Allen Otte. 2004. 9 min.

The Edge of Noise for NeXT (soprano, flute, percussion, electric guitar, piano, violin, cello, computer). 2004. 8 min.

Mountain Wind for pipa solo, flute, alto flute, bassoon, violin, 2 cellos, computer. 2003. 9 min.

Emei Shan Resonance for qin and computer. 2003. 8 min.

Origins of a Fantastic Dream for orchestra and computer. 2002. 10 min.

Loonspace. 2000 Percussion and tape. 13 min.
Mellipse 2. with Allen Otte. 1999 Percussion and tape
Implements of Actuation. with Allen Otte. 1998 Electric mbira, bicycle wheels and tape. 21 min.
Move!. 1996. Snare drum and tape. 4 min. 1998 version with Allen Otte. 7 min.
Evolutions. 1994. 8 instruments and NeXT ISPW. 25 min.
Installations
Hidden Mountain. 2007-. Interactive installation at the SinoNordic Arts Space in Beijing.

Staircase of Light. 2003. Light sensitive installation in the Sino-Nordic Arts Space, Beijing.

Sound Colors. 1995, 1997. Audience Interactive Installation for NeXTstation 040 and SGI.
Multimedia Works
Lifting the Mask for video.

Emei Shan Resonance for qin, computer and video. 2003. 8 min.

Mountain Wind for pipa solo, 5 instruments and video. 2004. 8 min.

Device & Devices with Kimberly Burleigh. 2002. video.

(e) (with Mary Beth Haggerty). 1995. animation and computer music
Tape Works
Where is My Voice? 2008. 6 min.

bugs and ice: a Question of Focus. 2002. 6 min.
Abandoned Lake in Maine. 1997. 12 min.
Ah!. 1995. voice and percussion. 1 min.
Chimeplay. 1994. algorithms and sampled sounds for my wedding. 5 min.
Meeting the Free Dreamer. 1992. algorithmic piano sounds. 10 min.
Dragon of the Nebula. 1991. granular synthesis composition. 9 min.
Mellipse. 1989, rev.1995. moving elliptical filters and gentle sound masses. 8 min.

Theater Works
Clotho (with Allen Otte). 2000. music for monodrama for soprano, percussion and computer based on the life of Camille Claudel
Instrumental Works
String Paths, graphic score for 1-6 percussionists. 2007.

Light Descends into your Heart. 1997. piano. 3 min.
Songs for Mezzo, Cello and Percussion. 1990. 12 min.
Two Meditations. 1990. alto fl., clar., bn., 2 vn., pno. 6 min.

CCM Computer Music Main Menu

Mara Helmuth Home Page

Email me at Mara.Helmuth@uc.edu

The Tornado Project lands at Arizona State University, USA. May 1st 2010

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:21:42 PDT

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TORNADO-PROJECT.ORG CONCERT
Arizona State University West Campus

Date: May 1st 2010
Place: 6pm in Kiva Lecture Hall there will be a panel discussion and at 7:30pm a concert by the Tornado Project, featuring Elizabeth McNutt, flute, and Esther Lamneck, clarinet, performing live with computer.

For more information about a prior workshop by Andrew May and Barry Moon on Max/MSP and Pure Data for Interactive Music, click here

The Tornado Project in full at NYCEMF. New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:04:53 PDT

Friday 27th March, 2010.

Concert 8: The Tornado Project: 2:15 PM–3:15 PM, Segal Hall
Performed by Esther Lamneck, Clarinet and Elizabeth McNutt, Flute

* Robert Rowe, Primary Colors
* Eric Lyon, Trio
* Paul Wilson, Beneath the Surface
* Andrew May, Still Angry
* Ricardo Climent, Russian Disco

For the full Festival schedule, click here

NYCEMF. New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival

To attend the festival, click here

e++: Russell Pinkston completes a new trio work for the Tornado-Project

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:00:43 PST

Composer Russell Pinkston has completed a new trio work specially written for Elizabeth McNutt (flute), Esther Lamneck (clarinet) and computer, to enriche even more the Tornado-Project's repertorie.
His new piece entitled e++ is scheduled for premier at SEAMUS 2010 and will be performed alongside another Paul Wilson's tornado piece 'Beneath the surface'.

Dr. Russell Pinkston (DMA, Columbia University, 1984) is a Professor of Music Composition and Director of Electronic Music Studios at The University of Texas at Austin. For more information, click here

Piece premiered: Seamus 2010 in April 2010

RUSSELL PINKSTON

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:21:30 PST

Dr. Russell Pinkston (DMA, Columbia University, 1984) is a Professor of Music Composition and Director of Electronic Music Studios at The University of Texas at Austin.
He is active both as a composer and as a researcher in the field of computer music. His compositions span a wide range of different media, from concert works and sacred anthems to computer generated tape pieces and live electronic music for dance. While the primary focus of his research has been in developing software and hardware for real-time synthesis and digital signal processing, his numerous tutorials, example instruments, and user-interface software for Csound have also become renowned. His current research involving the use of interactive technologies for dance has recently received international attention, leading to interviews with CNN, CBCN and BBC News and a feature article in New Scientist Magazine. He is a founding member and the current President of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), and a former Regional Director for the Americas of the International Computer Music Association.
(c) http://www.russellpinkston.com/

Dr. Russell Pinkston
The University of Texas at Austin
School of Music
1 University Station, E3100
Austin, TX 78712-0435

Composer's personal website: Click here

Tornado at Aberdeen: North East Scotland's festival of new music

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:33:01 PDT

The Tornado Project: flute, clarinet & interactive computer programs

The Tornado Project, performed by two of America's most distinguished performers, is a series of compositions for flute, clarinet and interactive computer programs by such composers as Ricardo Climent, Eric Lyon, Paul Wilson, Robert Rowe and Andrew May.

2009-11-27
T19:45
Friday 27 November 2009, 7.45 pm

Elphinstone Hall, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen

Tickets: £8, £5 conc, £2 student and under 18

Promoter: University of Aberdeen
28 October - 22 November 2009

For more details, visit this link

all offseason events at Elphinstone Hall
sound offseason events in 2009

TORNADO-PROJECT.ORG

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:44:19 PDT

The Tornado Project

Works for flute, clarinet and computer-generated sound with virtuosi American performers Esther Lamneck, clarinet, (above picture right) and Elizabeth McNutt, flute, (above picture left) plus Live Electronics.

Background
Inspired by the image of winds and wood flying through the air, Ricardo Climent and Paul Wilson conceived The Tornado Project: a set of commissioned works for flute, clarinet and computer-generated sound, to be performed by American wind virtuosi Esther Lamneck (clarinet) and Elizabeth McNutt (flute). Four works were composed for this ensemble and premiered at the opening ceremony of the NOVARS Research Centre at Manchester University in 2007. Subsequently, a fifth composition was created by New York-based composer Robert Rowe, and the complete set of works was performed at New York University in 2008. Each of the five works presents a different take on the possibilities of the ensemble: primary harmonic and melodic materials, recombinant live sampling, extended instrumental timbres, 1970’s rock, and computer- mediated formal structures.

Programme (2007-2009)
Robert Rowe - Primary Colors
Eric Lyon - Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Computer
Paul Wilson - Beneath the Surface
Andrew May - Still Angry
Ricardo Climent - Russian Disco

Pictured above: Climent, Lyon, May, Rowe and Wilson

Added to Programme (2010-)
Russell Pinkston - e++
Mara Helmuth - new work

WARNING ...
this project is fun!!

ICMC '09, MONTREAL, Canada. August 2009

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:02:56 PDT

Still Angry and Beneath the Surface selected for performance at the ICMC 2009. Congratulations!

Monday, August 17, 2009

Pollack Hall 2 [17:00 - 19:00]

Beneath the Surface [Paul Wilson]

Lion d'Or 3 [21:30 - 23:30]

Still Angry [Andrew May]

Full ICMC music programme here

ICMC '08, Belfast - AUGUST 2008

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:56:20 PDT

Russian Disco was performed at Ricardo's former school (SARC), organisers of the International Computer Music Conference in the summer of 2008!

CONTACT

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:58:21 PST

Tornado Project:

European Contact:

* Paul Wilson - email: paul.wilson [A .T] qub.ac.uk or
* Ricardo Climent - email: ricardo.climent [A.T] t-online.de

USA Contact:

* Elizabeth McNutt - email: elizabeth.mcnutt [A.T] unt.edu
* Esther Lamneck - email: esther.lamneck [A.T] nyu.edu

CALL FOR WORKS

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:27:51 PDT

CALL FOR WORKS

PRESS

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:24:50 PDT

PRESS

SPONSORS AND HOST INSTITUTIONS

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:05:00 PDT

* SPONSORS

[-] Culture Ireland

[-] The Arts Council of Northern Ireland

[-] Electronic Music Foundation

* HOST INSTITUTIONS

[-] NOVARS Research Centre
University of Manchester, UK

[-] CEMI and UNT College

[-] New York University (Steinhardt)

[-] Electronic Music Studios at The University of Texas at Austin, USA

[-] Center for Computer Music, College-Conservatory for Music, University of Cincinnati, USA

CONTACT

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:14:52 PDT

CONTACT

WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PERFORMERS

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:14:42 PDT

WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG PERFORMERS

WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG COMPOSERS

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:14:32 PDT

WORKSHOPS WITH YOUNG COMPOSERS

CD RECORDING

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:14:22 PDT

CD RECORDING

INTERVIEWS AND PANELS

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:14:12 PDT

INTERVIEWS AND PANELS

MUSIC AND VIDEO EXCERPTS

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 01:13:53 PDT

MUSIC AND VIDEO EXCERPTS

PRIMARY COLORS

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:39:35 PDT

Primary Colors for Flute, Clarinet and Interactive Music System (UK Premiere)
Robert Rowe

Primary Colors is a work in progress for two of my favorite performers in the world, Esther Lamneck and Elizabeth McNutt. Though still under construction, we are presenting a significant chunk of the work tonight. The title comes from a recognition that the piece is composed of a number of highly differentiated and internally consistent blocks of material: primary colors, if you will. The computer part, written by the composer in C++, combines the sounds of the two instruments, some prepared sound files, and effects processing on all of it.

RUSSIAN DISCO

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:21:11 PDT

Russian Disco for Flute, Clarinet and Electronic Expression by Ricardo Climent (2007)

Russian Disco is inspired by the book with the same title written by the author Vladimir Kaminer. The book is a collection of short imaginative and hilarious stories of Berlin’s nightlife from the point of view of an ‘outsider’ based in the capital city. Similarly, this piece is also a collection of brief musical stories, as a composition mosaic-form, recontextualised from an outsider point of view . All examples are based either on music of the past and present or some sonic ideas inspired by source recordings, e.g several reorchestratations of Dvořák's Humoreske, P. Manoury's Jupiter or a collection of Siemens fans from the 1960s/70s. The score is a score of choice, (kaitenzhusi score), which consists of a mosaic of pre-composed materials with live elements. Performers have alternatives in terms of structuring the layout of the score. Musical/sonic ideas pass on a computer screen, like sushi food does on a carousel belt, as being seen in some Japanese restaurants. Decisions are made on to whether display such ideas in full or to move to a new one. The computer reconstructs pre-notated musical fragments at micro-level and provides a framework for certain restricted improvisation in the electronic part.

' I have always been fascinated by the fact that out of broken tiles arranged on architectonic contours such as frescos or curved stone benches, artists could provide a sense of organic growth to dead materials, without necessarily being too logical or consistent. Ultimately, this idea informed my compositional musical thinking and computers provided the technological needs to realise them...' Ricardo Climent

score here

TRIO FOR FLUTE, CLARINET AND COMPUTER

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:39:04 PDT

Trio for Flute, Clarinet and Computer
Eric Lyon

My Trio for flute, clarinet and computer is the third in a series of computer chamber music compositions developing modes of interaction based on compositional, rather than improvisational imperatives. In these works, all computer-projected materials are based on sounds captured live during performance. The computer sound is balanced to the level of the acoustic instruments, which are not amplified.

BENEATH THE SURFACE

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:06:54 PDT

Beneath the Surface for Flute, Clarinet and Computer
Paul Wilson

Beneath the Surface explores musical ideas developed from a few whispers and clicks from both flute and clarinet. One of the main thoughts here was to restrict the soundworld, keeping the work intimate and from never really growing beyond a murmur. The composition explores the tensions between noise or air sound and pitch, and the onset of vibrations both within and between the instrumental and computer parts. The initial challenge in this work was to address the issue of composing a piece that uses extremely quiet sounds for the most part. This piece is something of a reaction to the extremely rich and dynamic possibilities available within the electroacoustic medium. The initial idea involved searching for musical expression whilst denying the more exciting and perhaps obvious possibilities that might present themselves when developing the composition. The overall effect of the piece is that it should not feel completely finished. Some interesting sounds and musical ideas are presented but they never fully develop and remain subdued, beneath the surface.

Click here for more details on this work!

STILL ANGRY

ricardo.climent@t-online.de (tornado-project.org) — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:42:55 PDT

Still Angry for Flute, Clarinet and Computer by
Andrew May

The title Still Angry comes from Richard Morgan’s cyberpunk novel Altered Carbon; the full quote is “When they ask how I died, tell them: still angry.” Most of us carry around unquenchable anger these days, for various reasons: unjust wars, environmental degradation, ill-fitting clothes, crashing computers, economic imperialism, emotionally unavailable family members, the neighbor's kid's car stereo, global poverty, the decline of the artistic avant-garde... This piece goes to tell you that I'm still angry at having to choose between the various musical subcultures I love because of other people's stylistic chauvinism.
Still Angry is a double concerto for flute, clarinet, and computer, composed for Esther Lamneck and Elizabeth McNutt on the occasion of the NOVARS launch at the University of Manchester. Like any concerto, it presents a struggle: in this case, between the instrumentalists, who want to do avant-garde improvisation, and the computer, which wants to do songs from 1970’s Manchester bands (Magazine, Joy Division, Buzzcocks). Small quotations woven into the piece create a post-punk quodlibet. The composer recorded his own covers of the songs for this purpose (the drums are played by the computer). Just three short samples were taken from the original artists’ recordings, all of them Joy Division: producer Martin Hannett’s abstract introductions to Insight and New Dawn Fades, and the beginning of Love Will Tear Us Apart.