Philip Glass

So last week I was lucky enough to see Philip Glass a few times here in Calgary, and holy, so amazing. He spoke at ACAD last Thursday, and the lecture hall at ACAD was packed, I've never seen such a crazy turnout. And he definitely did not disappoint, his lecture was funny, entertaining, inspirational and very captivating. The range of projects and collaborations he has worked on is unbelievable.
I was also very very privileged in being able to attend the Cantos interactive tour with Philip Glass and it was definitely an experience I will ever forget. Philip Glass and Michael Riesman (his conductor) gave an amazing tour along with the Cantos staff, and played on several of the historic instruments in the collection. My personal favorite was the Ondes Martenot, and instrument I had seen in a Radiohead video once, and never knew what it was. The theremin and all the synths were pretty amazing too, they have a crazy Moog collection. We are so lucky in Calgary to have such an extensive collection of instruments, including some really famous ones ( the piano Elton John wrote Tiny Dancer on!), it's too bad no one in Calgary knows this little treasure is right under there nose!
On Friday I was spoiled once again, and was fortunately able to attend the Dracula performance with the Kronos Quartet and Philip Glass, where they played the score to the Bela Lugosi's Dracula, it was so beautiful, and I have never gotten the opportunity to see the Kronos Quartet before.
We were so lucky last week to have such an amazing influential composer such as Philip Glass in town, many thanks to the One Yellow Rabbit and the High Performance Rodeo for bringing such incredible acts. Seeing a composer such as Philip Glass talk about his creative process and his ways of composition was so exciting, and definitely shows a world of possibility within the realm of music composition and production.

ALork Patch 2

ALork Patch week 2, this week the patch has a similar sound to last week's patch however, you can control the decay with the mousepad, creating a vibrato-like effect at the release of the note, when moving the mouse.



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A smaller ALork

Yesterday, ALork met for the second time, and holy we shrunk since last week. There is only 4 members plus our instructor Adam Tindale left, it's too bad it's not larger, but everyone left in it, seems to be really interested in music and sound, and ready to work hard. Everyone made really great patches yesterday, all really different but sounding great. I'm really excited to expand my patch this week, and maybe combine with a few other patches and add some new effects/features. I'll post it when I'm done

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ALork

So it's the beginning of the new semester, and I am trying to fix up my blog a little up, and try to post more often, especially with all the exciting things happening right now.
My Monday AV for Performance and Installation class with Adam Tindale is being conducted in the form of ALork, the ACAD laptop orchestra, which is really exciting. Our first day was last Monday, and it was interesting, we're building instruments in Pure Data and then performing as a group of around 10, with individual speakers.
I'm really excited to see what kind of pieces the orchestra will actually make, and to see how the whole project goes. I'll keep posting the progress of this class.