BLUFFTON UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR TO PRESENT "CONCERT OF NEW MEDIA"
Dr. Peter Terry, associate professor of information technology and music and director of instructional technology, will present "Concert of New Media" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 24, in Yoder Recital Hall. The concert will feature 10 new video and computer animations works, including a number of international award-winning works by composers and artists from throughout the United States. The evening will celebrate the growth of computer-based animation and video art during the last five years. This event is free and open to the public.
The concert will feature the world premiere of Terry's "An Effigy of Ghosts," created for computer-processed electric guitar. This piece was composed by Terry during the summer of 2007 with the help of a Bluffton University Research Center grant. The piece uses a variety of software that reacts to a live guitar player to create a complete piece. The composer will perform guitar on the piece and briefly explain the processes and technology behind the work.
In addition, the concert will feature three short videos by composers Stephen Moore and Scott Smallwood. Moore and Smallwood, working under the name "Evidence," collaborated with professional video artists, VIS (Verification Interacting with Synthesis), live video performers and time-based visualists. The result is striking and intriguingly diverse. Other works to be performed were created by Maurice Wright, Michael Verunsky, Pedro Guajardo, Sylvia Pengilly, Jon C. Nelson and Christopher Brakel, and range from amusing to intensely abstract.
Jill A. Duling, public relations office, 1/10/08
