Film Music of Judith Shatin Performed in Indiana on April 18 and Chamber Music Performed in Florida on April 19 Music of Judith Shatin will be presented in Indiana and Florida in the next few days: Saturday, April 18 - 8 PM - Electronic music from the film Rotunda will be given its Premiere at the Performance Theater of Sweetwater Sound Inc., 5501 U.S. Highway 30 West in Fort Wayne, Indiana, as part of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2009 National Conference. More about this performance at http://seamus.sweetwater.com/schedule/. Sunday, April 19 - 7 PM - Run for piano quartet will be presented in the Stone House Ballroom of the Deering Estate at Cutler, 16701 SW 72nd Avenue in Miami Florida. Artists of the Living Artist Concert Series will perform the work choreographed with a visual Artist in Residence installation. Ms. Shatin is in-residence with the 2008-09 Deering Estate Living Artist Series. More about this performance at http://www.deeringestate.com/pages/Living-Artist-Series-.aspx. Shatin, a University of Virginia professor of music, conceived of the Rotunda project while looking out her office window at Thomas Jefferson's Lawn and Rotunda. Designed by Jefferson to represent the 'authority of nature and the power of reason,' the Rotunda is the architectural and symbolic center of the University of Virginia, founded by Jefferson in 1824 as the first secular Liberal Arts University in America. Inspired by these now threatened ideals, Judith Shatin and filmmaker Robert Arnold created a sound and video portrait of the Rotunda that juxtaposes its timeless majesty with the every-changing hum of daily life. The composer has written, 'Run, a one-movement piece for piano quartet, plays on the musical and temporal meanings of the word "run", with chromatic runs that are rhythmically displaced and crosscut, and with changing and layered rates of fast-paced motion. Respite is brief, as it so often is in our lives. Run was inspired by the perceptual grouping experiments of my husband, cognitive psychologist Michael Kubovy, with particular emphasis on grouping by proximity and similarity; and by the pointillist paintings of Andrew Forge, whose method evolved from an intuitive attraction factor between dots. Both of these sources inspired a fresh look at the perceptual cross currents of rhythm and pitch. Run was commissioned by the Currents Ensemble and composed at the MacDowell Artist Colony in 2001.' Called "marvelously inventive" by the Washington Post and "exuberant and captivating" by the San Francisco Chronicle, Judith Shatin's music reflects her adventures as a timbral explorer. Her music is internationally performed and has been featured at festivals including Aspen, BAM Next Wave, Grand Teton, Havana in Spring, Moscow Autumn, Seal Bay, Ukraine and West Cork. Orchestras that have performed her music include the Denver, Houston, Illinois, Knoxville, Minnesota, National and Richmond Symphonies. Shatin's music can be heard on the Centaur, Neuma, New World and Sonora labels. She has been commissioned by many organizations and ensembles across the United States, including the Barlow Foundation, Kronos Quartet, National Symphony, Hexagon Ensemble and Virginia Chamber Orchestra. You can hear a Noizepunk and Das Krooner interview with Judith Shatin at http://www.kalvos.org/nkshows.html. Read her Hearing Things newsletter at http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/march09/JS_nws_030509.pdf. Visit her online at http://www.judithshatin.com. For more information about Judith Shatin, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or [log in to unmask] Jeffrey James Arts Consulting Website: http://www.jamesarts.com *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html