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The Artburst Concert Series and Rusty Banks present:
Classical Guitar Masterclass with Rusty Banks
WHEN: 3:00pm April 22, 2007
WHERE: The Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham
4300 Hampton Heights Drive
Registration fee is $25 and includes admission to the 7pm Artburst Concert that night. Walk-ins welcome, but an email is appreciated...
[Read about the concert below]
COMPOSER/GUITARIST RUSTY BANKS TO CREATE SOUNDSCAPE WITH GUITAR, TEMPLE BELL AND ELECTRONICS
BIRMINGHAM, AL— Spatial Someone, a concert of works for classical guitar and electronics will be presented as part of the Artburst Concert Series at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Birmingham. Rusty Banks will perform his work “Hydrology.”
This piece, for guitar and electronics, makes use of boomboxes placed
around the audience. “Musical ideas are presented, then
passed around the room via the boomboxes, much like ideas move around
the mind. As the ideas move around, their weight and presence
change.” This work is the sixth in a series that combines
live musicians playing traditional instruments with pre-recorded sounds
played on boomboxes behind the audience. “This is a lot of fun
from a gimmicky standpoint. It’s somewhat like a
surround-system promo at times-- a chance for listeners to say
‘There it is! Now there it is behind me!’ My
intentions are, of course, more artistic than that, but there’s
no denying the “fun factor.”
Also on the concert is Monroe Golden’s microtonal masterpiece
“Vegan Permaculture” and Canadian composer Lorne
Altman’s “…and it makes me wonder,” a
post-minimal reworking of Led Zeppelin fragments.
Samples of the works are available at http://rustybanks.org
Concert is at 7pm April 22, 2007 at the Unitarian Universalist Church
of Birmingham located 4300 Hampton Heights Drive. For more
information visit http://artburst.org.