electronic music ensemble and video
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Performed on Boyer College’s Cybersounds concert
Temple Performing Arts Center, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
November 6, 2023
BEEP (Boyer Electroacoustic Ensemble Project), performers
Adam Vidiksis, conductor
Sam Wells, live video
program note
Glass Mountain explores the sounds and feeling of transitional states of water as considered along a mountainside, however, these sounds are portrayed exclusively through samples of glass being bowed and struck with various implements. The performers are given a score and a listening track of water and ice sounds and are tasked with rendering what they hear through by manipulating the glass samples. The audience does not hear the listening track, but rather they experience only the resulting abstracted soundscape. Similar to an image displayed in a stained-glass window, the result is a beautifully imperfect rendering of a real-world object or scene.