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Please find individual programs for each of our 5 concerts online at https://music-web.ucsd.edu/concerts/cms_index.php
Individual presentation sessions are open to the public, but are not available for live stream.
TRANSPLANTED ROOTS PERCUSSION RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2022
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
7.00 – 8.30 pm Conrad Prebys Concert Hall: Opening Concert
Palimpsest, conducted by Steven Schick
Iannis Xenakis | Komboï
Ashely Zhang and Rebecca Lloyd-Jones
Edgard Varese | Density 21.5
Wilfrido Terrazas
Chou Wen-chung | Echoes from the Gorge
red fish blue fish
intermission
Erin Graham | Shape of Silence (world premiere)
UC San Diego Palimpsest orchestra
Soloists Yongyun Zhang and Rebecca Lloyd-Jones
TRANSPLANTED ROOTS PERCUSSION RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2022
THURSDAY | SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Thursday, May 19, 2022
9.00am - 10.00am, Experimental Theater Open rehearsal: Edgard Varése Ionisation
10.00 - 10.15am Break 10:15-10:30am, Concert Hall
Steven Schick: Opening Welcome Address
10.30am-12.00 pm, Concert Hall: SESSION 1
o Tim Feeney: Weakness, ambience and irrelevance
o Jess Tsang: How Percussionists Think: Re-contextualizing Legacy
o Michael Jones: Beyond Rupture and Revolution: Embodying Modernist Nostalgia
12.00 -1.00pm LUNCH
1.00 -2.30pm, Experimental Theater: SESSION 2
o Bill Solomon: Queer Pulsing: Percussion as chrononormative disrupter
o Carmen Maldonado: How have we imprinted our roots in new music?
o AJ Layague: Fire Pistons and High-Tin Alloys: How Gong Cultures Survived the Colonizers in SE Asia
2.30-3.00pm Break
3.00 -4.00 pm Concert Hall: SESSION 3
o Gina Ryan: Five Sound Poems for Prepared Marimba
o Tyler Cunningham: Time is not succession: Xenakis’ Ohko, Animist Materiality, and Postcoloniality in Western Percussion
4.00-4.15pm Break
4.15pm – 6.00pm Recital Hall: SESSION 4
o Jared Brown, Jordan Curcuruto and Bryan Jeffs, Relative Dimensions
o Vanessa Tomlinson and Evaristo Aguilar: Lonely Hearts Pandemic Band unpacked
o Ivan Manzanilla and Roberto Morales: Gasti bichenda (no trick here)
o Louise Devenish: Tools, medium, methods: Percussive contributions to evolving new music practices
7.00 – 8.45pm Concert Hall
CONCERT #1
Eva-Maria Houben - John Muir Trails I (in the fullness of time)
red fish blue fish
Alvin Singleton - Extension of a Dream
Fisher/Lau Project
Robert Esler - Ta Kaasiak
Rules of Play
Erik Griswold - Twos and Threes
Terry Longshore
Intermission
Rachel C. Walker - 辜月 November Moon
Yongyun Zhang
Roberto Palomeque - Travesia de un Migrante
Roberto Palomeque
Wally Gunn - Book of Hours *world premiere
Eric Shuster
TRANSPLANTED ROOTS PERCUSSION RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2022
FRIDAY |SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Friday, May 20, 2022
9.00-10.00 am Experimental Theater: SESSION 1
o Gloria Yehilevsky and Dalia Berman: Borrowed Reality Delaney Jai: 23
o Delaney Jai: 23
o M A Harms: An outside view of a teetering frame of mind
10.00-10.30am Break
10.30am-12.00pm Concert Hall: SESSION 2
o Dustin Donahue: Netty Simons, Design Groups I
o Matt Leveque: To Hold Non-Power: Relational Potentiality in Singular Percussion Instruments
o Kosuke Matsuda, Iannis Xenakis, Psappha
12.00 -1.00pm LUNCH
1.00-2.30pm Experimental Theater: SESSION 3
o Amanda Sealock: Borrowing: Timbre Versus Structure
o Fabio Oliveira and Khesner Oliveira: Recent Music from Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil (2016-2019)
o Jade Hails: The Percussionist Storyteller: Upholding and dissolving traditions within the canon
2.30-3.00pm Break
3.00- 4.30pm Concert Hall: KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Sarah Hennies: The Innermost Recess: Pléiades, Percussion, Trauma, and Utopia
4:30-5.00pm Break
5.00 - 6.00pm Experimental Theater
CONCERT #2
Thought Sectors Sarah Hennies (world premiere)
Performed by Steven Schick
6.00 - 8.00pm Social Hour @ The Loft
8.00 – 9.00pm Experimental Theater
CONCERT #3
Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I
TaPIR Lab, University of Toronto
Aiyun Huang (director), Tyler Cunningham, Hoi Tong Keung, Bevis Ng, Matti Pulkki, Timothy Roth
This project is made possible with the support of Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Program.
TRANSPLANTED ROOTS PERCUSSION RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2022
SATURDAY | SCHEDULE OVERVIEW
Saturday, May 21, 2022
10.00 - 11.15am Concert Hall
Roundtable Discussion: The life and legacy of Chou Wen-chung
Distinguished Professor Lei Liang, Composer Erin Graham, Percussionist Yongyun Zhang
11.15-12.00pm Break
12.00 - 1.15pm Experimental Theatre
Roger Reynolds and Steven Schick: Cells, Aggregations, Impact: Xenakis’s Creative Practice as Experience
1.15-3.00pm Break
3.00 - 6.00pm Mandeville Auditorium
Xenakis Cabaret
Edgard Varèse | Ionisation
Transplanted Roots community
Iannis Xenakis | Kottos
Robbie Bui
Iannis Xenakis | Evryali
Mari Kawamura
Intermission 1
Iannis Xenakis | Rebonds
Michael Jones
Iannis Xenakis | Psappha
Steven Schick
Intermission 2
Iannis Xenakis | Pléiades
red fish blue fish
Unfortunately due to COVID 19, some presenters could not join us live in San Diego. Their online presentations can be found at our YouTube channel:
Sascia Pellegrini: An Investigation of the Phenomenology of Time and Space in Notated Works for Solo Percussion
Niki Johnson: Sea of Fragments: The instrumentality of sculpture