Computer Music
for seven performers with laptops
The familiar, lonely blue glow of the laptop screen is turned into a visual musical device. Each performer reads from a custom animated graphic notation indicating which key on the laptop keyboard to press. A software application turns key presses into sound and light
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'The music was a little like what you might hear in an old arcade video game: each time a tone sounded, one of the musicians lit up with a color. Think of the scene at the end of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, when the scientists and aliens communicate with each other through light and sound. If aliens land in New York this week, we can send out Kaj Duncan David to communicate with them!'
Stevan Pisano, Feast of Music
Commissioned by Aksiom Ensemble
Premiered in 2014 at Ultima Festival [Oslo]
Revised almost beyond recognition in 2016 for Scenatet / SPOR Festival [Aarhus]
24.08.2021
Computer Music
performed by Latenz Ensemble
IMPULS Festival, Graz
16.08.2021
Computer Music
performed by LandesJugendEnsemble für Neue Musik (SH)
Frequenz Festival, Kiel
21.01.2020
performed by an ad hoc ensemble
Conservatori de les Illes Balears, Mallorca
25.06.2019
performed by K!art
Koncertkirken, Copenhagen
11.06.2017
performed by ad hoc ensemble
Virtual Reality 003, Manchester
12.05.2016
(fully revised in new version)
performed by SCENATET
Spor Festival, Aarhus
19.09.2014
(original version)
performed by Aksiom Ensemble
Ultima Festival, Oslo