March 29, 2001 @ Performing Arts Center

Concert II Electroacoustic Music from New Zealand John Young, curator * University of Florida Center for the Performing Arts Black Box Theater "Ancestral Voices" John Rimmer "Liquid Sky" John Young * "Twitter Tourniquet" Lisa Meridan-Skipp "Herakles" Dan Beban "Under Erebus" Chris Cree Brown "Chimaera" Michael Norris "Mists and Voices" Philip Brownlee * John Young's appearance at FEMF10 made possible through the assistance of Creative New Zealand and De Montfort University. New Zealand electroacoustic music had its beginnings in the early 1960s when, relatively late in life, the composer Douglas Lilburn began working exclusively in this medium. One of the defining aspirations of Lilburn's work was to find a sound-world which might resonate more distinctively with his immediate environment Š to fashion a voice for a 'new' world detached from 'old' instrumental practice and culture. It was this which gave the initial impetus for the development of electroacoustic music in New Zealand a very strong and deep foundation. Yet, perhaps ironically, electroacoustic music has continued to develop as one of the new globalizing forces in music‹as shared technological issues are dealt with at the speed of the internet. This selection of music represents, then, the confluence of these two quite different aspects of the electroacoustc tradition in New Zealand‹the direct use of environmental and original cultural sources, and the growing immediacy with which the influence of new technologies and musical thinking is absorbed and acted upon.