Featuring Tiffany Ng (SMTD), Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley), Chris Chafe (Stanford), Susan Lepri (UM College of Engineering)
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Lurie Carillon, you’re invited to help transform Gerstacker Grove into a crowdsourced carillon of Lurie Tower’s 60 bells surrounded and augmented by the audience’s smartphones. Join carillonist Tiffany Ng in playing “A Day in the Sun,” a musical piece generated from algorithmic sonification of solar data. The sun completes a rotation on its axis every 27 days, producing a cycle of solar weather. Artists Greg Niemeyer and Chris Chafe, in collaboration with CLaSP Associate Professor Susan Lepri, give voice to those changes over time, based on solar radiation data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the month of June 2016. The audience will become part of the soundscape by querying the data from their smartphones, which will play samples of the Lurie bells in harmony with the carillon. Join us to hear the sun’s activity as the Grove was being completed!
Co-sponsored by the Department of Organ, the Department of Performing Arts Technology, and the College of Engineering.
To view a time-lapse video of the creation of the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove click here: http://myumi.ch/LEp3K
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Lurie Carillon, you’re invited to help transform Gerstacker Grove into a crowdsourced carillon of Lurie Tower’s 60 bells surrounded and augmented by the audience’s smartphones. Join carillonist Tiffany Ng in playing “A Day in the Sun,” a musical piece generated from algorithmic sonification of solar data. The sun completes a rotation on its axis every 27 days, producing a cycle of solar weather. Artists Greg Niemeyer and Chris Chafe, in collaboration with CLaSP Associate Professor Susan Lepri, give voice to those changes over time, based on solar radiation data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for the month of June 2016. The audience will become part of the soundscape by querying the data from their smartphones, which will play samples of the Lurie bells in harmony with the carillon. Join us to hear the sun’s activity as the Grove was being completed!
Co-sponsored by the Department of Organ, the Department of Performing Arts Technology, and the College of Engineering.
To view a time-lapse video of the creation of the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove click here: http://myumi.ch/LEp3K
Cost
- Free - no tickets required
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