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An improvisatory sound performance that tests the performers’ perception of shape and movement with respect to space and noise. The ensemble has been split up into two sections, one playing with medium-large tiles and the other using small tiles. Made from materials such as clay, porcelain, and concrete the tiles can produce a plethora of sound qualities. Each of the performing groups will be watching a video of animated digital designs in gray scale and emulating the shapes before them using the objects available. How the visuals are reflected in the noise is up to the performers, and the many variables they see could represent any number of parameters, such as body movement, material, volume, force of gesture, or tone quality. While these mental preparations may be unknown to the audience, the primary hidden factor for the performers is the group with which they are sharing the stage. Each group will be watching a different video, while the audience will be watching a projected composite of the two. Sometimes, their visuals may line up, but their improvisatory choices may not, and only the audience will know where the parallels in their source material lie. This performance will result in a series of unpredictable collaborations that will develop our communal sound ideas, perhaps even without our knowing.

Jessie Lausé is a composer, performer, and educator with a passion for creating diversified sensory engagement within their music. Jessie is originally from central Kentucky and holds a bachelor’s degree in arts administration from Butler University in Indianapolis. Jessie is currently pursuing a master’s in music composition at the University of
Colorado Boulder where they teach music technology and have studied with Annika Socolofsky and Michael Theodore. Most recently, Jessie’s work has been featured at the 2022 Lake George Music Festival, the CU New Opera Workshop, and in Musicworks Magazine as Second Prize winner for their 2021 Electronic Music Composition Contest. When not composing, Jessie spends their free time playing board games and watching RuPaul’s Drag Race with their cats, Gubaidulina and Mr. Bear.

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from New Music Festival 02022 Documentation: Audience Participation, released January 8, 2023
Composed by Jessie Lause

www.jessielause.com

Performed by
Lily Slaton-Barker
JP Lempke
the administrative assistant
Pete Amawawattana
Isabel Pinney
Christian Li
Kathie Hsieh
Kiernynn Grantham-Crum
Thomas Calletano Gonzalez
Grace Clark
Recorded by the administrative assistant on October 16 @ First Christian Church, at the second of three EDME New Music Festival shows in Eugene, Oregon, USA
Richard Fenton did a bit of mastering or something

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A lifetime in noise & experimental stitched to the last 100 years of electroacoustic, ecoacoustic, concrete magique

Improv jazz come unpinned from time

Conceptual music built from field recordings

Sound art for dreaming, drifting, disappearing

Ritual magick, slow to cast; slow to coalesce

Invocations unintended for human ears

Music in geologic time

Aureality for the non-conscious mind ... more

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