Music producer and multimedia artist Reed Wilson specializes in creating striking, often experimental audio, applicable to anything from alternative rap records, instrumental visual albums and pop singles, to video games and performance art. Having facilitated and participated in countless concerts, and on the heels of a collaborative audiovisual set centered around automated text campaigns, Wilson is on a quest to integrate his music with imagery, movement, lighting and personality in a way that yields lasting emotions. “AV/CV” is a performance featuring four instrumentalists whose audio and MIDI signals will be sent to a Touch Designer program, allowing them to animate a series of projected visuals.
As the visual cycles through representations of curated topics–for example, evolutionary stages and psychology tropes–the ensemble plays a score of compositions written and arranged to engage with the paired visuals in a expressive, narrative way. Leo Major is a NYC based composer, producer, saxophonist, and pianist. His primary interest lies in crafting joy-based sound worlds drawing from his practice in contemporary composition, jazz, and experimental pop production. A two-time recipient of the ASCAP Morton Gould Award, his music has been performed by ensembles such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic, members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, wild Up, and Lyris Quartet, with premieres at the BUTI Tanglewood and Borromeo Music Festivals. As a saxophonist, he has performed at the Monterey NextGen Jazz Festival and Alice Tully Hall. His current project, Latentenergy Miniatures, is a set of nine short études in two parts.
The first is an electronically produced album written for a “digital chamber ensemble”, featuring distorted harp, piano, and acoustic guitar samples. The second is an acoustic arrangement, premiered tonight, for a quartet consisting of piano (Leo Major), electric guitar (Maya Polsky), classical guitar (Lulu West) and upright bass (Billy Stark). The group’s shared training in jazz and classical traditions allows for a generative interplay between strict notation and improvisation.
Ruby Alexander - Guitar, MIDI Guitar Leo Majort - EWI, Alto Saxophone Noah Klyce - Keyboard Reed Wilson - Drum Machine, Touch Designer
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