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$Friday, FEBRUARY 13, 2015 - CANADIAN PREMIERE OF PLI - Find the program notes and score by clicking on the title. CASA ON STAGE" PRESENTS PIANIST JESSE PLESSIS IN CONCERT Friday February 13th, 2015 at 7 PM in the Casa ATB Financial Community Room Tickets $15 Available at Casa and Long & McQuade The program will feature music by Chopin, Beethoven, and Liszt, as well as the Canadian premiere of a work by Lethbridge's own Arlan Schultz! Friday, November 21, 2014 Arlan Schultz gave a lecture and 5-channel Spatialization System demo at 5:00 p.m. in W480 at the U of Lethbridge for the Student Composer’s Forum. In Dr. Schulz's words: "The field of audio spatialization, in a technological sense, is relatively new – dating from the early experiments of Cage and Stockhausen in the 1960s. However, it has its historical roots in the acoustic polychoral writing of such early composers (1550) as Willaert, Gabrielli, Monteverdi and Merulo. The latest technological advances in RT (real-time) spatialization software tools have shown great promise for multiplexing the sonic experience in a live concert setting. My own early compositional work (Edifice, 1989-93 for 2 antiphonal choirs, and wind orchestra) is deeply concerned with the aesthetic impact that the spatial dimension of a musical work has on the audience. Recent advances in audio mixing techniques and computer software have now made it possible to artificially introduce the spatial dimension to a musical work, and to manipulate it in real-time as another expressive parameter of the musical fabric. As much of my recent work engages with RT spatialization, I would like to examine the aesthetic concerns raised by this technological tool and discuss its incorporation into compositional praxis." Pre-talk set-up with composers Drew Erfle, Graham Trudeau and Jesse Plessis New Recording Released - Spring 2014 Rubbing Stone Ensemble: The Lethbridge Sessions - featuring - Soprano Martha Renner, Jeremy Brown - Saxophone, Gianetta Baril - Harp, Luciane Cardassi - Piano, and Arlan Schultz - Computer Processed Audio in Ikos: kun tu ‘bar ba. Recorded at the University of Lethbridge’s Studio 1 facility. Available through the Canadian Music Centre at http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/75960 REVIEWS: "The Lethbridge Sessions is a highly satisfying CD: beautifully paced, eclectic but coherent, with impeccable playing by these Calgary musicians. This is a fine collection of new Canadian chamber music, and also a great resource for those interested in contemporary music for saxophone. Here’s to many more six-year anniversary releases!" - Cecilia Livingston, Notations "As a debut recording, the Rubbing Stone Ensemble’s Lethbridge Sessions sets the bar high on both the repertoire and performance fronts. We can look forward with anticipation to the pleasant surprises their next recording will bring."Timothy Maloney, CAML Review RECENT PERFORMANCES Entwirrung for solo flute. Premiered November 4, 2014 in Sopot, Poland Ikos: kun tu ‘bar ba (2009-2010) for soprano, saxophone, harp, piano, percussion, 5-channel computer processed audio, and 5-channel, real-time spatialization. Commissioned by New Works Calgary and premiered April 20, 2010, performed again in Lethbridge, Alberta October 2011. KONTAKION (2008) for violin, clarinet, piano, 5-channel computer processes audio and real-time spatialization. Written for Peter Visentin, Margaret Mezei, and Deanna Oye (University of Lethbridge faculty trio). Funded by a generous grant from the University of Lethbridge Research Fund. Premiered March 11, 2008 U of L Recital Hall. Pensées Interdites (2007) for violin, bass clarinet, and piano. Commissioned by Ensemble Resonance, Calgary Alberta, premiered January 27, 2007, New Works Calgary. Entwirren (1997), for solo violin. November 18, 2005, Hotcakes Gallery of Contemporary Art, Milwaukee, WI, Mark Menzies - violin; October 4, 2005, Music at Noon, University of Lethbridge, Mark Menzies - violin; May 13, 2004, New Music in Canada, University of Lethbridge, Kerry DuWors - violin. Skinless Nights (2003), electroacoustic score for a dance animation by A.W. Smith. Premiered Nov. 7, 2003, Music, Machines and New Media, University of Lethbridge. MacPVC (2003). Concept by A. Smith. Realization by Chris Vance, A. Smith, and A. N. Schultz. A collaborative work for live performer with PVC tubing, improvised synthesizer, and live computer processed audio. Premiered Nov. 14, 2003, Music, Machines and New Media, University of Lethbridge. GlassHouse (2002), sound score (Distrans I) for a dance animation by A.W. Smith. Premiered as part of Faculty of Fine Arts Conversation with Artists series, 19 September 2002, University of Lethbridge; Shown at Denison University, Granville, Ohio 14 October 2002; Shown in part at Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, 14 January 2003; Shown at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, 21 February 2003; shown in part 1 March 2003, Transparent Technologies, the 9th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium, Connecticut College, New London, CT. RECENT PRESENTATIONS Multiple voices and fractured narrative: a defense of virtuosity in Michel-Georges Brégent's Sapho: 3 poèmes d'amour (1979). Perspectives on Music in Canada, University of Calgary, Jan. 27, 2006. Time Projection in Compositional Practice. Guest Speaker: Graduate Composition Seminar: University of California, San Diego, Department of Music, November 29, 2004. Multiple Time Frames in Contemporary Music: Postulating a Phenomenology of Perception. Discussion of SMPC presentation dealing with the perception of time in contemporary concert music. Conversations in the Arts, University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lethbridge, Alberta, September 18, 2003. Multiple Time Frames in Contemporary Music: Postulating a Phenomenology of Perception. Biennial meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, SMPC, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, June 17, 2003. RECENT WRITINGS Schultz A.N. Multiple Time Frames in Contemporary Music: Postulating a Phenomenology of Perception. In preparation. Schultz A.N. Multiple Voices and Fractured Narrative: a Defense of Virtuosity in Michel-Georges Brégent's Sapho: 3 poèmes d'amour (1979). Circuits: in preparation. Schultz A.N. PLI, for solo piano. (Universal Edition, Vienna, UE 31245; 1998). Shan G., P. Visentin, A. Schultz. Multidimensional Signal Analysis as a Means of Better Understanding Factors Associated with Repetitive Use in Violin Performance. Medical Problems in Performing Artists, Sept. 2004.$ shapeimage_2_link_0

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Analysis page from String Quartet No. 1; With Thilo Schaller in Studio 1 at University of Lethbridge; Complex Sound Wave; 2D Ambisonic Panning Coordinates.

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Amazing performance of PLI, by Jesse Plessis - May 6th, 2016 at the finals for the Eckhardt-Grammate National Music Competition.