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'Alys Sound' Event Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend
Relax as Art Imitates Life Through the Natural Sounds of Alys Beach
Alys Beach, FL - (August 10, 2010) ? In celebration of Labor Day weekend, Alys Beach, in conjunction with Escape to Create, is proud to host ?Alys Sound? on Saturday, September 4, from 4 to 6 p.m. along the pedestrian path. In addition, live jazz will be performed by Sean Dietrich (SeanDietrich.com) from 5 to 8 p.m. at Caliza, with artwork by Steve Penley (STEVE PENLEY) being featured at Caliza Pool.
Dr. Charles Norman Mason - creator of ?Alys Sound? and Escape to Create (Home Page) artist-in-residence - teaches composition at Birmingham-Southern College and in the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. For a number of years, Mason has explored an area of interest he calls Music for Porous Architecture. He has written a number of pieces contemplating what it means to take into consideration the architectural space within which the work would appear.
?As we were walking down the street or pathway in Alys Beach, I noticed that there are many beautiful sounds,? said Mason. ?From the dry wispy sound of wind blowing through the palm trees to the water gurgling from pet watering fountains, ?Alys Sound? will use those natural sounds to create aural beauty that complements the natural sound of the passageway and encourages pedestrians to slow down as they are walking the path so they might observe more of the visual and aural beauty.?
The concept of Alys Sound employs six musicians who will merge with pre-recorded music/sound from eight speakers. The live musicians will provide a beautiful, contemplative, sonorous sound that will naturally produce canonic textures as a result of distance. For example, if two musicians are performing the same music, but are separated by distance, the result will sound, to a listener, as if the distant musician is echoing the nearer musician. The pre-recorded portions will consist of music that interacts with the live musicians and create beautiful sonorities derived from local sounds such as waves, shells and wind.
Many of the ideas will have their parallel with architecture. For example, just as an architect uses visual space to affect the flow of people through a house, music will be used to affect the flow of people through a space. The music will also be used to draw people to special spots that they may overlook otherwise, or to define large spaces, just as a designer might use a sculpture at the end of each street to define the visual space.
Mason has received many awards for his compositions including the American Composers Orchestra ?Playing it Unsafe? prize, the 2005 Rome Prize, the Premi Internacional de Composici? Musical Ciutat de Tarragona Orchestra Music prize, and a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Award. His music is published by Living Artist Publishing and is available on ten different compact disc recordings. For further information about Dr. Mason, please visit, Charles Norman Mason.
ABOUT ALYS BEACH
One of the most beautiful new towns in the world, Alys Beach is located on Scenic Highway 30A in Florida's panhandle, along what The New York Times said "may be the best beach in the continental U.S." The resort town's extraordinary architectural vision drew inspirations from both Bermuda and the family courtyard homes of Antigua, Guatemala. When complete, Alys Beach will be home to 900 villas and courtyard homes, as well as restaurants, parks, shops and other resort amenities. Alys Beach is the first Fortified...for Safer Living? community in the world, and all homes are built to Florida's Green Home Designation Standard. For home sales or vacation rental information, please call 866-481-8387 or visit Alys Beach Offers Luxury Beach Living From A New Urbanist Perspective > Home.
ABOUT ESCAPE TO CREATE
Established in 1993 as an artist residency program, Escape to Create's mission is to foster the creation of art that teaches and inspires by offering artists a supportive environment for creative work and to further the appreciation of the arts as an integral part of community life. Escape to Create is supported by a vibrant community that celebrates artistic endeavor through residencies, literary conferences, theatrical events, lectures, exhibitions and school visitations throughout the year. For more information, contact Malayne DeMars, 850-534-0000, escapetocreate@gmail.com.
Relax as Art Imitates Life Through the Natural Sounds of Alys Beach
Alys Beach, FL - (August 10, 2010) ? In celebration of Labor Day weekend, Alys Beach, in conjunction with Escape to Create, is proud to host ?Alys Sound? on Saturday, September 4, from 4 to 6 p.m. along the pedestrian path. In addition, live jazz will be performed by Sean Dietrich (SeanDietrich.com) from 5 to 8 p.m. at Caliza, with artwork by Steve Penley (STEVE PENLEY) being featured at Caliza Pool.
Dr. Charles Norman Mason - creator of ?Alys Sound? and Escape to Create (Home Page) artist-in-residence - teaches composition at Birmingham-Southern College and in the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. For a number of years, Mason has explored an area of interest he calls Music for Porous Architecture. He has written a number of pieces contemplating what it means to take into consideration the architectural space within which the work would appear.
?As we were walking down the street or pathway in Alys Beach, I noticed that there are many beautiful sounds,? said Mason. ?From the dry wispy sound of wind blowing through the palm trees to the water gurgling from pet watering fountains, ?Alys Sound? will use those natural sounds to create aural beauty that complements the natural sound of the passageway and encourages pedestrians to slow down as they are walking the path so they might observe more of the visual and aural beauty.?
The concept of Alys Sound employs six musicians who will merge with pre-recorded music/sound from eight speakers. The live musicians will provide a beautiful, contemplative, sonorous sound that will naturally produce canonic textures as a result of distance. For example, if two musicians are performing the same music, but are separated by distance, the result will sound, to a listener, as if the distant musician is echoing the nearer musician. The pre-recorded portions will consist of music that interacts with the live musicians and create beautiful sonorities derived from local sounds such as waves, shells and wind.
Many of the ideas will have their parallel with architecture. For example, just as an architect uses visual space to affect the flow of people through a house, music will be used to affect the flow of people through a space. The music will also be used to draw people to special spots that they may overlook otherwise, or to define large spaces, just as a designer might use a sculpture at the end of each street to define the visual space.
Mason has received many awards for his compositions including the American Composers Orchestra ?Playing it Unsafe? prize, the 2005 Rome Prize, the Premi Internacional de Composici? Musical Ciutat de Tarragona Orchestra Music prize, and a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Award. His music is published by Living Artist Publishing and is available on ten different compact disc recordings. For further information about Dr. Mason, please visit, Charles Norman Mason.
ABOUT ALYS BEACH
One of the most beautiful new towns in the world, Alys Beach is located on Scenic Highway 30A in Florida's panhandle, along what The New York Times said "may be the best beach in the continental U.S." The resort town's extraordinary architectural vision drew inspirations from both Bermuda and the family courtyard homes of Antigua, Guatemala. When complete, Alys Beach will be home to 900 villas and courtyard homes, as well as restaurants, parks, shops and other resort amenities. Alys Beach is the first Fortified...for Safer Living? community in the world, and all homes are built to Florida's Green Home Designation Standard. For home sales or vacation rental information, please call 866-481-8387 or visit Alys Beach Offers Luxury Beach Living From A New Urbanist Perspective > Home.
ABOUT ESCAPE TO CREATE
Established in 1993 as an artist residency program, Escape to Create's mission is to foster the creation of art that teaches and inspires by offering artists a supportive environment for creative work and to further the appreciation of the arts as an integral part of community life. Escape to Create is supported by a vibrant community that celebrates artistic endeavor through residencies, literary conferences, theatrical events, lectures, exhibitions and school visitations throughout the year. For more information, contact Malayne DeMars, 850-534-0000, escapetocreate@gmail.com.
what a beautiful evening of sounds! and then jazz at Caliza - is this a cocktail party or dinner?
A cash bar will be available during the event. If you want to dine at Caliza, please go ahead and make a reservation by calling 850-213-5700.
For the Holiday weekend, Caliza Restaurant will be open for dinner Wednesday, September 1 through Sunday, September 5 from 5:30-9pm.
For the Holiday weekend, Caliza Restaurant will be open for dinner Wednesday, September 1 through Sunday, September 5 from 5:30-9pm.
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FEATURED ARTISTS at ALYS SOUND
CHARLES NORMAN MASON, creator of Alys Sound and 2010 Escape to Create artist-in-residence, is a professor of composition at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Coral Gables. For a number of years, Mason has explored an area of interest he calls Music for Porous Architecture. He has written a number of pieces contemplating what it means to take into consideration the architectural space within which the work would appear.
Mason has received many awards for his compositions including the American Composers Orchestra Playing it Unsafe prize, the 2005 Rome Prize, the Premi Internacional de Composici Musical Ciutat de Tarragona Orchestra Music prize, and a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Award. His music is published by Living Artist Publishing and is available on ten different compact disc recordings.
JOSEPH P. ARDOVINO is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Montevallo where he has taught since 1991. Ardovinos responsibilities at the University include conducting the University Wind Ensemble, directing the University Jazz Ensemble and Trumpet Ensemble, teaching trumpet, and conducting and performing with the Faculty Brass Quintet. Dr. Ardovino received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in trumpet performance from the University of Alabama. He holds the Master of Music degree in trumpet performance from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, and the Bachelor of Music degree in trumpet performance with teacher certification from the University of Alabama.
As a trumpet player, Ardovino is an active recitalist as well as a tenured member of the Tuscaloosa Symphony, and performs with the Alabama Symphony periodically. Yearly, Ardovino conducts various honor bands around the state and judges many band and solo competitions as well. He also serves as coordinator and conductor for the annual UM Honor Band Festival and All-State trumpet clinic. Ardovino is a member of the International Trumpet Guild, Alabama Bandmasters Association, Alabama Music Educators Association, Music Educators National Conference, International Association of Jazz Educators, and College Band Directors National Association.
LORI ARDOVINO is Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone, music history and chamber music at the University of Montevallo. She is clarinetist with the Magnolia Trio and is a founding member and alto saxophonist with the Cahaba Saxophone Quartet. Ardovino is an active performer in the Birmingham area and is called upon to play clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and tenor saxophone with the Joe Giatina Big Band. She is also called upon to double for the Birmingham Broadway series and with various groups such as the Magic City Actors Theater and the Red Mountain Theater Company. She is an active clinician, adjudicator, and has had numerous articles published in the Ala Breve, official journal of the Alabama Music Educators, and writes CD reviews for the Clarinet, official journal of the International Clarinet Association.
Ardovino has been a guest recitalist at a number of colleges and universities. Additionally, she is an active composer and has had her works performed across the US and Canada. She was chosen as the Alabama Music Teachers Association Commissioned Composer for 2010 and recently had her solo work for clarinet, Eloquence II premiered in Echizen, Japan.
Ardovino received the Doctorate of Music degree in clarinet performance from the Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, at Michigan State University where she received the Masters degree in Clarinet Performance/Woodwind Specialists, and holds degrees in Music Education and Clarinet Performance from Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN. Ardovino is Artist/Clinician for the G. Leblanc Corporation.
For several decades, cellist CRAIG HULTGREN has been a fixture on the scenes for new music, the newly creative arts, and the avant-garde. In recent years, he has performed solo concerts and chamber music in Rome, Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Miami, Atlanta, Orlando, Denver, Memphis and San Antonio. A recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he was a member for many years of Thmyris, a contemporary chamber music ensemble in Atlanta. A cellist in the Alabama Symphony, he also plays in Luna Nova, a new music ensemble with a large repertoire of performances available as podcast downloads on iTunes. Hultgren is featured in three solo CD recordings including The Electro-Acoustic Cello Book on Living Artist Recordings. In 2004, the Birmingham Sidewalk Film Festival 48-Hour Scramble cited him for the best soundtrack creation for the film The Silent Treatment. For ten years, he produced the Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial, an international competition that highlighted the best new compositions for the instrument. He teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Alabama School of Fine Arts and Birmingham-Southern College where he directs the BSC New Music Ensemble. He is a founding member and former President of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestras of Birmingham. Hultgren is a CAMA artist (Collaborating Artists Manifesting Adventure) with the St. Louis New Music Circle and will be presenting programs there for three seasons.
MEGAN KNOX is originally from Katy, TX and has spent 23 out of her 24 years in the Lone Star State. She graduated from the University of Houston in May 2009 with a BM in music education & clarinet performance and is currently finishing the last year of a MM in clarinet performance at the University of Miami, and is a teaching assistant for Dr.Donaghue. In addition to university ensembles and solo recitals, she has performed in the Texas Music Festival for 2 years, been a soloist with the Galveston Symphony, and has performed in several pit orchestras for operas and musical theater. She loves teaching almost as much as she loves playing clarinet. She taught private lessons, master classes, and woodwind sectionals for several years in Houston and Louisiana. She is planning to take professional orchestral auditions after graduation, and would eventually like to complete a DMA and teach at the college level.
RICK NANCE is from the Southeast United States, primarily residing in Birmingham Alabama. As a free improvisor he has performed with Trans Musiq, Wally Shoup, Southern Danceworks, Liquid Brick and Phantom Limb. He composes and investigates music as a plastic art (PhD, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK), as akin to painting and sculpture as it is to written or performed music.
MATTHEW EVAN TAYLOR began playing saxophone at age 9 in Birmingham, AL. He went on to study at Birmingham-Southern College, earning his Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance While at BSC, Matthew discovered his love for classical music, especially the groundbreaking works of Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. After leaving school, Matthew was a founding member of the rock band Moses Mayfield, for whom he played saxophone and keyboard. For five years, they toured the United States and Canada, culminating in the release of their debut album "The Inside"(Columbia Records, 2007). The band members decided to go their separate ways in 2008. Matthew spent the next year in various projects, ranging from classical to jazz. Matthew now lives in Miami, Florida. He is a founding member of the new music collective Fridamusiq (pronounced FREE-dah-mu-sic), a group of like-minded composer/performers interested in group improvisation. Matthew is currently at the University of Miami, where he is pursuing graduate degrees in composition.
ABOUT ESCAPE TO CREATE Home Page
Established in 1993, Escape to Create provides an enriched cultural experience for artists and audiences alike by promoting connection to art and culture in Walton County through residencies, literary conferences, theatrical events, lectures, exhibitions, workshops and school visitations throughout the year.
For information, contact Malayne DeMars, 850-534-0000, escapetocreate@gmail.com
CHARLES NORMAN MASON, creator of Alys Sound and 2010 Escape to Create artist-in-residence, is a professor of composition at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Coral Gables. For a number of years, Mason has explored an area of interest he calls Music for Porous Architecture. He has written a number of pieces contemplating what it means to take into consideration the architectural space within which the work would appear.
Mason has received many awards for his compositions including the American Composers Orchestra Playing it Unsafe prize, the 2005 Rome Prize, the Premi Internacional de Composici Musical Ciutat de Tarragona Orchestra Music prize, and a National Endowment of the Arts Individual Artist Award. His music is published by Living Artist Publishing and is available on ten different compact disc recordings.
JOSEPH P. ARDOVINO is the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at the University of Montevallo where he has taught since 1991. Ardovinos responsibilities at the University include conducting the University Wind Ensemble, directing the University Jazz Ensemble and Trumpet Ensemble, teaching trumpet, and conducting and performing with the Faculty Brass Quintet. Dr. Ardovino received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in trumpet performance from the University of Alabama. He holds the Master of Music degree in trumpet performance from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, and the Bachelor of Music degree in trumpet performance with teacher certification from the University of Alabama.
As a trumpet player, Ardovino is an active recitalist as well as a tenured member of the Tuscaloosa Symphony, and performs with the Alabama Symphony periodically. Yearly, Ardovino conducts various honor bands around the state and judges many band and solo competitions as well. He also serves as coordinator and conductor for the annual UM Honor Band Festival and All-State trumpet clinic. Ardovino is a member of the International Trumpet Guild, Alabama Bandmasters Association, Alabama Music Educators Association, Music Educators National Conference, International Association of Jazz Educators, and College Band Directors National Association.
LORI ARDOVINO is Professor of Clarinet and Saxophone, music history and chamber music at the University of Montevallo. She is clarinetist with the Magnolia Trio and is a founding member and alto saxophonist with the Cahaba Saxophone Quartet. Ardovino is an active performer in the Birmingham area and is called upon to play clarinet, bass clarinet and saxophone with the Alabama Symphony Orchestra and tenor saxophone with the Joe Giatina Big Band. She is also called upon to double for the Birmingham Broadway series and with various groups such as the Magic City Actors Theater and the Red Mountain Theater Company. She is an active clinician, adjudicator, and has had numerous articles published in the Ala Breve, official journal of the Alabama Music Educators, and writes CD reviews for the Clarinet, official journal of the International Clarinet Association.
Ardovino has been a guest recitalist at a number of colleges and universities. Additionally, she is an active composer and has had her works performed across the US and Canada. She was chosen as the Alabama Music Teachers Association Commissioned Composer for 2010 and recently had her solo work for clarinet, Eloquence II premiered in Echizen, Japan.
Ardovino received the Doctorate of Music degree in clarinet performance from the Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, at Michigan State University where she received the Masters degree in Clarinet Performance/Woodwind Specialists, and holds degrees in Music Education and Clarinet Performance from Minnesota State University, Moorhead, MN. Ardovino is Artist/Clinician for the G. Leblanc Corporation.
For several decades, cellist CRAIG HULTGREN has been a fixture on the scenes for new music, the newly creative arts, and the avant-garde. In recent years, he has performed solo concerts and chamber music in Rome, Boston, St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Miami, Atlanta, Orlando, Denver, Memphis and San Antonio. A recipient of two Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts, he was a member for many years of Thmyris, a contemporary chamber music ensemble in Atlanta. A cellist in the Alabama Symphony, he also plays in Luna Nova, a new music ensemble with a large repertoire of performances available as podcast downloads on iTunes. Hultgren is featured in three solo CD recordings including The Electro-Acoustic Cello Book on Living Artist Recordings. In 2004, the Birmingham Sidewalk Film Festival 48-Hour Scramble cited him for the best soundtrack creation for the film The Silent Treatment. For ten years, he produced the Hultgren Solo Cello Works Biennial, an international competition that highlighted the best new compositions for the instrument. He teaches at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, the Alabama School of Fine Arts and Birmingham-Southern College where he directs the BSC New Music Ensemble. He is a founding member and former President of the Birmingham Art Music Alliance and is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Youth Orchestras of Birmingham. Hultgren is a CAMA artist (Collaborating Artists Manifesting Adventure) with the St. Louis New Music Circle and will be presenting programs there for three seasons.
MEGAN KNOX is originally from Katy, TX and has spent 23 out of her 24 years in the Lone Star State. She graduated from the University of Houston in May 2009 with a BM in music education & clarinet performance and is currently finishing the last year of a MM in clarinet performance at the University of Miami, and is a teaching assistant for Dr.Donaghue. In addition to university ensembles and solo recitals, she has performed in the Texas Music Festival for 2 years, been a soloist with the Galveston Symphony, and has performed in several pit orchestras for operas and musical theater. She loves teaching almost as much as she loves playing clarinet. She taught private lessons, master classes, and woodwind sectionals for several years in Houston and Louisiana. She is planning to take professional orchestral auditions after graduation, and would eventually like to complete a DMA and teach at the college level.
RICK NANCE is from the Southeast United States, primarily residing in Birmingham Alabama. As a free improvisor he has performed with Trans Musiq, Wally Shoup, Southern Danceworks, Liquid Brick and Phantom Limb. He composes and investigates music as a plastic art (PhD, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK), as akin to painting and sculpture as it is to written or performed music.
MATTHEW EVAN TAYLOR began playing saxophone at age 9 in Birmingham, AL. He went on to study at Birmingham-Southern College, earning his Bachelor of Music in Saxophone Performance While at BSC, Matthew discovered his love for classical music, especially the groundbreaking works of Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky. After leaving school, Matthew was a founding member of the rock band Moses Mayfield, for whom he played saxophone and keyboard. For five years, they toured the United States and Canada, culminating in the release of their debut album "The Inside"(Columbia Records, 2007). The band members decided to go their separate ways in 2008. Matthew spent the next year in various projects, ranging from classical to jazz. Matthew now lives in Miami, Florida. He is a founding member of the new music collective Fridamusiq (pronounced FREE-dah-mu-sic), a group of like-minded composer/performers interested in group improvisation. Matthew is currently at the University of Miami, where he is pursuing graduate degrees in composition.
ABOUT ESCAPE TO CREATE Home Page
Established in 1993, Escape to Create provides an enriched cultural experience for artists and audiences alike by promoting connection to art and culture in Walton County through residencies, literary conferences, theatrical events, lectures, exhibitions, workshops and school visitations throughout the year.
For information, contact Malayne DeMars, 850-534-0000, escapetocreate@gmail.com
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