Wired Encounter @ Muse Creative Workspace

The Adler/Burtner Wired Encounter The Muse Creative Workspace presents two internationally celebrated composer-performers meeting on stage for the first time. Richmond, VA Saturday, December 6 2008 at 7pm at MUSE CREATIVE WORKSPACE—6N 19th Street: Tzadik recording artist Christopher Adler and “Metasax” inventor Matthew Burtner meet together for the first time for an exclusive Richmond Muse […]

November 18, 2008; 1:16 AM • by Dean Christesen

The Adler/Burtner Wired Encounter

The Muse Creative Workspace presents two internationally celebrated composer-performers meeting on stage for the first time.

Richmond, VA Saturday, December 6 2008 at 7pm at MUSE CREATIVE WORKSPACE—6N 19^th Street:

Tzadik recording artist Christopher Adler and “Metasax” inventor Matthew Burtner meet together for the first time for an exclusive Richmond Muse Creative Workspace performance. The Adler/Burtner “Wired Encounter” will feature computer-mediated improvisations and composed sound art works for piano, saxophone and computers. A $10 donation at the door.

Award winning concert music composers, Adler and Burtner are also widely regarded as virtuosic performers. Among numerous collaborations and recording projects, they have appeared in concerts with improvisers such as Fred Frith, George Lewis, Anthony Davis, Mark Dresser, Vinny Golia, Gustavo Aguilar, Luke DuBois, and Brian Osborn.

First prize winner of the Musica Nova International Electroacoustic Music Competition and a 2008 Howard Foundation Fellow, Matthew Burtner’s music has been described by The WIRE as “some of the most eerily effective electroacoustic music I’ve heard” and by the New York New Music Connoisseur as “Completely new sound patterns and sonic ideas suggesting an entirely revised organization of tones unlike anything in our musical past”. Burtner is currently Associate Professor of composition, computer music and experimental practices at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville.

Adler is currently an Associate Professor at the University of San Diego. He is the pianist and composer-in-residence for NOISE, and a cofounder of the soundON Festival of Modern Music. His compositions have been released on Ecstatic Volutions in a Neon Haze (Innova) and Epilogue for a Dark Day (Tzadik), and his improvisations and performances may be heard on Transcontinental (Nine Winds) and Mineralia (pfMENTUM).