Concert at the Red Room
Thursday, August 12, 2010, 9:00 pm
130% Surround Sound
August 12, 2010 at the Red Room in Baltimore, After Now and the 130% Surround Sound series presented compositions without performers, surrounding listeners with sophisticated electronic sonic hypnotism. Composers Mark A. Lackey and Samuel Burt welcomed back After Now emeriti C.R. Kasprzyk and Andrew Cole and guest composer Jeff Carey.
130% Surround Sound is program initiated by the Red Room to to accentuate and celebrate panorama as a dimension of sound equal and possibly superior to timbre, melody, harmony and rhythm. Panorama has long been a component of electronic music, since it's beginnings, and quadrophony has been an oft used aspect of composition.
However, quadrophonic systems are scarce - both in venues and in personal systems. Therefore, musicians seldom develop their own music with panoramic outputs in mind. This fact defies the general wisdom that surround sound is a great frontier of deep music listening.
The Red Room, after a a happy accident, realized that it could host shows in quad and discovered that creative artists were interested in exploiting it. So it is that the Red Room enlivened the month of August, 2010 with four consecutive Thursdays of quadrophonic presentations of electronic music.Samuel Burt
Jeff Carey
Andrew Cole
C.R. Kasprzyk
Mark A. Lackey