Carl Testa Graduate Contextual Concert—Anthony Braxton’s Echo Echo Mirror House Music: Composition No. 375

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 8:00pm
World Music Hall

Free and open to the public

Graduate Student Carl Testa presents a performance of composer Anthony Braxton’s Echo Echo Mirror House Music (EEMHM) utilizing a new system for networked devices he designed in collaboration with the composer. In the original performances of EEMHM each performer was given an iPod loaded with Braxton's recorded music. At the start of the performance, each performer would press play on their iPod to immediately generate a massive collage of sound. For this performance, a computer running SuperCollider will generate the collage while each musician connects wirelessly to that computer to control their individual layer of sound. In addition, the EEMHM collage will be diffused through the space using in part, a custom 64-channel Wave Field Synthesis (WFS) speaker array designed and built by Testa. The WFS array will enable the collaged sounds to move through the ensemble and space using movement trajectories devised by the composer for his Pine Top Aerial Music and Sonic Genome projects.

Grant Beale: guitar
Tom Crean: guitar
Solomon Kim: cello
Noa Koffman-Adsit: cello
Anne Rhodes: voice
Carl Testa: bass
Yuma Uesaka: saxophones/clarinets

Image: Detail from Anthony Braxton’s Echo Echo Mirror House Music: Composition No. 375