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31/3/2000

The Cathedral Band

Roulette Intermedium, New York

Seattle's DJ Tamara meets the New York Avant Garde

Video Installation: STRANGE WORLDS, a visual backdrop for the Roulette concert, is a motion painting by Daniel Wiesenfeld, a visual artist whose work explores the shared boundaries of painting, photography, and multimedia.

The Cathdral Band

An internet combo with both a virtual and a live identity, The Cathedral Band is the creation of composer William Duckworth. It is one of the live components of Cathedral, his on-going work of music and art for the Web. On line since June 10, 1997, it includes both acoustic and computer music, live webcasts, and new virtual instruments called Chaos, Sound Pool, and PitchWeb.

The Cathedral Band members are

Composer and pianist "Blue" Gene Tyranny, who in the course of his 30-year career has written electronic, instrumental, and vocal works, film and video soundtracks, and scores for dance and theater, and has performed and recorded with such artists as Robert Ashley, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and Iggy Pop.

DJ Tamara (records), a regular on Seattle's Groovetech web radio and at the Art Bar, she was the opening act for Ani DiFranco's 1999 summer tour. She is featured in a new video chronicling the Seattle music scene filmed for Paul Allen's Experience Music Project.

John Kennedy and Charles Wood (percussion), co-founders of New York's most successful experimental music group of the 1990's, Essential Music. Kennedy conducts and directs the new music programs at the Spoleto Festival USA, while Wood was the drummer for Richard Hell and the Voidoids.

William Duckworth (PitchWeb), is the founder of Postminimalism. He has performed with such artists as Laurie Anderson, John Cage, and 1950's pop diva Jane Morgan. The instrument played by Duckworth is the PitchWeb, a new virtual instrument created for Cathedral.

William Duckworth's Cathedral (www.monroestreet.com/Cathedral is one of the first interactive works of music and art created specifically for the internet. When completed, Cathedral will include some 32 electronic works for the web; 12 chamber works, some using one or more of the virtual instruments; 5 orchestral works, one of which is for Javanese gamelan orchestra; numerous pieces of incidental web music; and performances by The Cathedral Band. Cathedral is slowly growing toward the year 2001 when it will culminate in a 48-hour web event, with sounds streaming into the piece from hub sites and individual listeners around the world. The Cathedral Band will be the unifying force behind the 2001 webcast.

The PitchWeb

The Web version of the instrument may be found at http://www.monroestreet.com/Cathedral/pitchweb/

Designed to be playable by people of any musical ability, the PitchWeb is played by selecting and manipulating shapes (circles, squares, triangles, diamonds) which are mapped to individual sound samples. Users can also select and manipulate individual sounds from a sound palette and play them back with movements of the computer mouse. Alternately, sounds may also be produced by entering words or predetermined combinations of characters in any language. These words are then automatically converted into musical passages through an autoplay function that maps text to sounds.

Duckworth says that "an important aspect of the PitchWeb is its ability to involve each listener, regardless of native language or learned musical skills, in the process of making music on line. The goal is to bring audiences closer to the actual creation and performance of music."

Currently in Beta version 2.05, the PitchWeb will, in its final form, be capable of both customization and live, web-based interactive performance. In this version, it consists of the Philadelphia, Seattle, and Brooklyn sound banks, the last of these newly designed for the Roulette concert by composer Ruth Von Mengersen.

Duckworth's intention in creating these new instruments is to build a place on the Web for community music making that blurs the lines between composer, performer, and listener, and provides anyone with access to a computer with the opportunity to play music on-line.

William Duckworth

William Duckworth is a composer of over 100 works. His Time Curve Preludes for piano define the Postminimalist style, of which he is the founder. Since their 1979 premiere, his preludes have been performed on five continents, most recently at the Spoleto Festival USA, the Festival of Havana, and New York's Merkin Hall. Duckworth's first appearance in Europe was at the 1984 Pro Musica Nova festival in Bremen, Germany. More recently, he has been a member of the composition forum at Darmstadt, has given master classes in Rome, and was a featured composer at the 1995 Ferrara Festival. His first internet concert was webcast from the Spoleto Festival USA in 1998.

Date:
April 1, 2000

Time:
9:00 p.m. EST, 02:00 GMT (April 2)

Live Performance:
Roulette, 228 West Broadway, NYC

Tickets:
$10, Reservations: (212) 219 8242

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