Eureka! is a one-day conference organized by music graduate students that will take place at the University of California, Santa Cruz on May 9, 2015. The conference aims to create an unprecedented environment to showcase the diverse work created in Californian graduate music institutions, and forge lasting connections between graduate scholars within the state. Eureka! will conclude with a keynote address and discussion by composer Sean Friar and a session with ensemble-in-residence, Amaranth String Quartet. 

Jennifer Bewerse will present Liveness: Concert Music Outside the Economy of Repetition, a lecture recital at 10:30am in room 131.

The nineteenth and twentieth century redefined music as a musical object, emphasizing the score and situating performance as a repeatable object transparent to the score. The dominance of audio/video recordings in the music economy is a natural progression of this object-based value system and is further reflected in the current trend to document all live performances. But, reflexively translating live performance into a recorded medium privileges static structures and erases performing bodies. Helmut Lachenmann’s Pression and Tom Johnson’s Failing represent works resistant to this economy of repetition by engaging with indeterminacy and embodiment. Critically examining these characteristics is crucial to performance practice in order to maintain a diverse repertoire that enacts varied viewpoints through their appropriate mediums.

For more information, visit eurekagraduatemusicconference.sites.ucsc.edu

UCSD graduate students and Birch Aquarium collaborate for a site-specific immersive musical experience. 

Admission: $8 UCSD community, $10 general

For more information, visit aquarium.ucsd.edu

If it's short it will be this tall.

The Now Hear Ensemble presents "Once is Never." A concert which will focus on audio and video feedback as a creative tool. Repetition, recycling and transformation of music and images will unveil their lesser-explored possibilities. You will experience a total immersion into Joshua Carro’s vast live processed acoustical spaces, the excitement of Anthony Garcia’s post-pop minimalist grooves, and the masterfully crafted intersection of theatrically, staging and synchronized live video of Michael Beil’s Karaoke Rebranng! and Exit to Enter.

Tickets: Name your price at the door

For more information, visit

www.nowhearensemble.com

Southland Ensemble, L.A.’s fast-rising experimental music collective, offers an intense portrait concert of the early oeuvre of Robert Ashley (1930–2014), a restless innovator of American music. Although the composer is best known for his later operas and theatrical works, the group focuses on a collection of seldom-performed compositions from the 1960s—
work thought to be more conceptual than musical. The ensemble sets out
 to demonstrate otherwise. Its program features the iconic pieces She
Was a Visitor (1967) and The Wolfman (1964) alongside lesser-known, though equally strong, titles such as Trios (White on White) (1963) and the 
In memoriam... trilogy (1963). 

Admission: $25 / $20 / $12

For more information, visit www.redcat.org

A free hour-long concert of solo cello music sponsored by the Gluck Music Series.

Diagenesis Duo travels back to Boston for the first time since their 2012 debut tour. Join them for their recital featuring:

con mortuis by Stephen Lewis

9 Settings of Lorine Niedecker by Harrison Birtwistle

Travels by Adam Scott Neal

Works from the Diagenesis Folksong Project by Aaron Myer, Scott Ordway & Igor Stravinsky

Hands and Lips of Wind by Mischa Salkind-Pearl

Asymmetries by Jackson Mac Low

For more information, visit 

www.diagenesisduo.com

www.equilibriumconcertseries.org

Jennifer joins WildUp as they return to Santa Ana Sites to collaborate with the Pacific Symphony. This program for all strings in an old staircase factory, turned art space — of some of the most incredible music for strings ever written.

Andrew Norman: Gran Turismo

Arvo Pärt: Summa

John Dowland: Flow My Tears

Bryce Dessner: Lachrimae

Dmitri Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony for Strings

For more info and tickets, visit the Pacific Symphony’s website

www.pacificsymphony.org

Jennifer presents the final concert in her concert series investigating Liveness. As part of these three concerts exploring the question "Why live music?", Jennifer will perform works that rely on interactions in a concert space. How do these works come alive in a concert hall? How are they different from a recording? Are they...?

Nota Bene (Installation) - Jennifer Bewerse

Study No.30 - Ryan Ross Smith

Asymmetries - Jackson Mac Low

Failing - Tom Johnson

Weather Music - Monte Weber

She Was A Visitor - Robert Ashley

Admission: Free

For more information, visit musicweb.ucsd.edu/concerts

Jennifer joins Rachel Beetz for a concert that explores what two musicians can do away from their instruments. Autoduplicity investigates themes of bodily boundaries, spoken word as music, and an exploration of the musical sounds our bodies are capable of. 

Featuring:

Asymmetry 94, 259 by Jackson Mac Low

Das Wirkliche als Vorgestelltes (The Real as Imaginary) by Peter Ablinger

DiGiT No. 2 by Mayke Nas

?Corporel by Vinko Globokar 

Footfalls by Samuel Beckett

Admission: $15 / $10 members

For more information, visit:

centerfornewmusic.com

autoduplicity.com