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Musician/improviser to discuss work, March 2
Posted February 24, 2005; 05:39 p.m.
George Lewis, improviser-trombonist, composer and
computer/installation artist, will discuss historiographical issues
concerning the field of interactive music at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, March
2, in 102 Woolworth Hall.
In his lecture, "Living With Creative Machines: An Improviser
Reflects," he will cover topics including race and culture, the
documentation of interactive music and its relationship with
improvisation as they intertwine with his own extensive personal
history with interactive computer music.
Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of Music at Columbia University.
The recipient of a 2002 MacArthur "genius" grant, Lewis has explored
electronic and computer music, computer-based multimedia installations,
text-sound works and notated forms. His artistic work is documented in
more than 120 recordings, and his oral history is archived in Yale
University's collection of "Major Figures in American Music."
Lewis' talk is part of the /@rts
(pronounced "slash arts") lecture series, which explores interrelations
of new media, technology and traditional forms and practices of arts
and humanities. It is co-sponsored by the School of Engineering and
Applied Science, the Office of Information Technology, the Council for
the Humanities, the Program in Visual Arts, the Department of Computer
Science, the Department of Music and the University Art Museum.