ATLAS | Center for Arts, Media and Performance Overview

Performances listed below are free and open to the public except where noted. The ATLAS Black Box is located downstairs, lowest basement level B2. Seating is limited; first-come, first-served. Reservations for the free performances are not necessary. We recommend arriving 15 minutes before show time.

The Pendulum New Music Concert Series

presents electro-acoustic performances featuring the following CU composers and performers: Cole Ingraham, live electronics and visuals; John Drumheller, composition faculty, will perform with Nicolo Spera, guitar faculty, combining 10-string guitar with electronics; Hugh Lobel, piano, narrator and electronics (computer and 2/4 speakers); and Nathan Hall, video projection of a percussion quartet. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 22

BLOrk (Boulder Laptop Orchestra),

an eclectic ensemble of musicians equipped with laptops, hemispherical speakers, traditional instruments and MIDI controllers, will perform a variety of original pieces under the direction of John Gunther, an assistant professor of jazz studies at CU.
7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 24

Charming Hostess in Concert

Tickets: $5 for students; $10 in advance for non-students; $15 at the door
Oakland-based group Charming Hostess will perform their original work, The Ginzburg Geography, a musical performance based on the life and work of Italian anti-fascists Natalia and Leone Ginzburg. Exploring that couple's journey of love, resistance, exile and liberation through the mediums of music and radical cartography, the music is developed from the writings of the Ginzburgs as well as Italian regional traditions of Turin, Abruzzo and Rome. The evening will include music from Italian Jewish liturgy, the oldest and most remote in Europe, as well as Italian anti-fascist songs, work chants and resistance anthems. Learn more, http://www.charminghostess.us/.
The Los Angeles Weekly wrote, "Charming Hostess is the finest anarchist-feminist-polyphonic-polyrhythmic-polymorphously perverse-balkan-blue-ish-Jewish-freak-funk-punk band working in America today. Their live shows are as fabulous and eccentric as their music."
7:30 & 9 p.m. Thursday, March 8

Stories

See experiments in storytelling encompassing performance, prose, music, cinema and visual arts. Featuring: Flash Fiction Authors including Kona Morris, filmmakers Alex Cox and Sarah Jane Biagini, BLOrk (Boulder Laptop Orchestra), choreographers Lauren Michelle Beale and Brooke Gessay, media artist Mark McCoin and slideshows by poet David Antin. Presented by the Brakhage Center, a part of CU's Film Studies and the Art and Art History departments. Free and open to the public.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 10

There Can Only Be One

is a multimedia performance conceived and produced by MFA dance students Lauren Beale and Brooke Gessay in collaboration with Ana Baer Carrillo.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, March 16-17

Scriabin's Synaesthetic Illuminations

Owen Zhou, Doctor of Musical Arts candidate, will analyze and perform Alexander Scriabin's Eighth Piano Sonata with colored lighting and other effects. Scriabin was influenced greatly by the neurological phenomenon synesthesia, a condition where one's sense is stimulated by another sense. In Scriabin's case, he associated certain colors with different harmonies and devised his own "circle of color." The performance, presented as a lecture recital, will be the world-premiere of this work complete with a lighting component as originally conceived by the composer.
7:30 p.m. Thursday-Friday, March 22-23

LIGHT: A Musical Journey,

a five-movement musical work, explores various concepts of light from the spiritual and emotional to the physical. Scored for chamber orchestra, children's choir, rock band, male octet and soloists, each group will express a different aspect of light. The concept of light will transform as the piece progresses, meandering through different instrumentations, tonal centers, styles, textures and media. The piece is written and directed by College of Music instructor Kari Kraakevik.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 6-7

Double Feature of Multimedia Dance

Two MFA dance candidates share the evening with their original productions, each incorporating contemporary movement, improvisation, projected images, digital technology and live music.
S is for. . . , directed by Cristina Goletti, is a duo for man and woman who push their emotional boundaries while exploring the politics of gender. (d)well, by Chrissy Nelson, is a collaborative multimedia dance piece.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, April 20-21

The Communikey Festival of Electronic Arts (CMKY)

will feature a series of concerts and workshops including a performance by electronic music pioneer Morton Subotnick. He will perform Silver Apples of the Moon, commemorating the 45th anniversary of his groundbreaking work, which was been inducted into the Library of Congress. Vocalist Lesley Flanigan will also perform. Visit http://www.communikey.us for other festival events and workshops.
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26

I Am Watch Television Zombie

is an interdisciplinary production that explores our addiction to television with a team of 20 actors, musicians, technicians and aerial dancers. With no seating, audience members will wade through a transformed theater space waist-deep in balloons, immersed in thousands of animated TV images projected on four walls. The show's rich mix of aerial dancers, actors, live music and thousands of moving images and balloons may create moments of sensory overload, overwhelm and laughter.

The production was conceived and produced by Hunter Ewen, a CU doctoral candidate in music and Nicole Predki of Frequent Flyers (MFA Dance 2009). As there will be no general seating, those with disabilities are asked to email hunter.ewen@gmail.com for arrangements that will allow them to be seated during the show.
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 3-4

Spring 2012 Calendar of ATLAS Black Box events