tom@mills.berkeley.edu (Thomas Richard Erbe) (04/02/91)
The Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College in Oakland is hosting the west coast debut of THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLUS FESTIVAL, now in its 18th year. The festival, a packed week of events from Wednesday, April 3 to Sunday, April 7, is a showcase for the work of prominent and emerging composers and other creative artists working with new and exciting technologies in challenging ways. This year's festival will feature five concerts of live electronic performances, five concerts of tape music and video, a panel discussion on live electronics in performance among several of the invited composers, a workshop on the innovative computer software package HMSL, and interactive sound installations at the Prieto Gallery on the Mills campus. The festival's live concerts are by composer-performers Maryanne Amacher, Charles Amirkhanian, John Bischoff, Nicolas Collins and Ben Neill, Paul Demarinis and Laetitia DeCompiegne-Sonami, Barbara Golden and Bill Thibaut, Ron Kuivila, Tim Perkis and Carl Stone. With the exception of the live concerts, all festival events are offered free to the public. Tickets for live concerts are sold at the door and are $8 for general admission, $5 for students, seniors and the disabled. The tape music concerts, which precede each evening's live performances, include composers Richard Boulanger, Beth Bornholdt, Bill and Mary Buchen, Joanne Carey, Abigail Child, JB Floyd, Scot Gresham-Lancaster, Barbara Hammer, Craig Harris, Ed Hermann, Alden Jenks, Gustavo Matamoros, Sylvia Nakkach, Steven Noll, Daniel Oppenheim, Philip Perkins, Douglas Quin, Neil Rolnick, Michael Schell, David Simons, Lee Spector, Andrew Voight, and John Wiggins. The ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLUS FESTIVAL has been presented annually since 1970. During its long history, the festival has presented 551 performances of new and innovative work, and has featured some 319 composer, 49 choreographers, 47 film/video artists, 70 artists from other disciplines, and 1,494 performers. An essential ingrediant of the ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLUS FESTIVAL is the cross-pollination of ideas between individuals and groups across the traditional performing and fine arts disciplines, using sound as the central binding element. The Center for Contemporary Music at Mills has raised most of the special funding for this project. The festival is supported be grants from the National Endowment for the Arts - Presenters and Centers for New Music Resources Programs, the Zellerbach Family Fund, Meet the Composer/ California with funds provided by the Weyerhauser Family Foundation, and staff, equipment and facilities support from Mills College. For further information about festival events, call the Center for Contemporary Music at (415)430-2191, and listen for previews on radio station KPFA (Berkeley), 94.1 on the FM dial, from 9-11:30 AM Thursday, April 4 and 9-11:30 AM Friday, April 5. Mills College is located at 5000 MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, at the junction of highways 580 and 13. Parking on campus is free. -- Tom Erbe * Technical Director * Center for Contemporary Music * Mills College tom@mills.berkeley.edu * PO Box 9201, Oakland, CA 94613 * (415) 430-2191