Sprung and Flung: Featuring the Methods of Improvisation Ensemble and Experiments in Sound and Technology Collective [NEW DATE, TIME, AND VENUE]

Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 7:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

Free and open to the public

Wesleyan students, faculty, and staff can RSVP on WesNest, but reservations are not required.

Students in the course MUSC 224 "Experiments in Sound and Technology" present a concert under the direction of Professor and Chair of the Music Department and Director of the Electronic Music and Recording Studios Ron Kuivila ’77. The course explores hybrid approaches to performance that combine live coding via SuperCollider and its extensions with analog electronics including synthesizers, homemade/home-modified electronics devices drawn from Wesleyan’s David Tudor Collection of electronic instruments and instrumentation, and other devices prototyped in class. Guest artist Michael Johnsen will perform Tudor's work Pulsers.

And Wesleyan's new Methods of Improvisation Ensemble, under the direction of Assistant Professor of Music Darius Jones, will perform an end-of-semester concert. In the course MUSC 459, graphic- and prose-based notations are employed to facilitate the forging of a musical language unique to the ensemble. "Improvisation and composition are both methods of organizing sound that create the personal sonic universe of the individual or ensemble," said Jones.