CAS/MillerComm Lecture: "GO: Organic Orchestra--Process and Prototype" by Adam Rudolph

• Event Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
• Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm (CST)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

A pioneering "world music" percussionist and composer at the forefront of cross-cultural music projects since the late 1970's, Adam Rudolph discusses his research and performance experiences in various music cultures over the past 40 years, and how aspects of their cosmologies inspire and influence his creative process. By illustrating this artistic background, he offers an evolutionary construct of GO: Organic Orchestra, a concept of techniques and compositional strategies for conducted improvisation that provides the ability to uniquely develop large performance ensembles uniting a wide-range of musical disciplines.

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Robert E. Brown Center for World Music and the School of Music in conjunction with the Composition-Theory Division, School of Music, Department of African American Studies, Department of Dance, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Jazz Division, School of Music, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Krannert Art Museum, Musicology Division, School of Music, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, and the Spurlock Museum with special support from Bruno and Wanda Nettl.