Schick Machine with Mechanical Sound by Artist Matt Heckert
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Commissioned by Stanford Lively Arts and Meyer Sound Labs
Please Join Us for the World Premiere of
The Paul Dresher Ensemble Production of
Schick Machine
Matt Heckert is a long time friend from SRL’s olden days. He has gone on to do some amazing sound installations. This should be an amazing bio mechanical performance.
Collaboratively created by: Paul Dresher – Composer, Instrument Inventor and Builder Steven Schick – Performer/Percussionist Rinde Eckert – Director/Writer Matt Heckert – Mechanical Sound Artist Daniel Schmidt – Instrument Inventor & Builder Tom Ontiveros – Lighting & Production Design Gregory Kuhn – Sound Design & EngineeringThe mysteriously-packed subterranean workshop of the (possibly mad, possibly genius) inventor, sound collector and audio philosopher Lazlo Klangfarben. His invention: the Schick Machine – an uber-algorhytm, a logic instrument made from a giant motorized hurdy gurdy that produces heavenly sounds, a deconstructed pipe organ played with electrical mallets, and indescribable metal machines that seem to be alive. You ask: “What IS this stuff?
Paul Dresher returns to Lively Arts with the World Premiere of an evening-length solo musical theater work for virtuoso percussionist Steven Schick. Noted for his ability to integrate diverse musical influences into a unique and communicative personal style, Dresher has invented and built large-scale musical instruments that will transform the stage of Dinkelspiel Auditorium into an environment in which every object and surface is sonically active. The composition synthesizes the latest percussion sounds, performance aesthetics, and instruments into a new realm of choreographic, sculptural, and theatrical engagement.
MARCH 7, 2009_SATURDAY / 8:00 PM_DINKELSPIEL AUDITORIUM 471 Lagunita Dr, Stanford University, PALO ALO FOR TICKETS PHONE: 650-725-ARTS (2787) Or on-line at http://livelyarts.stanford.edu