[H&R] "Suite For String Quartet" July 18th 2009 <at> THE LAB & Record Release
C O L L I S I O N
The Lab 25th Anniversary Performance Series and Mission Creek Music
Festival
Saturday June 18th 8pm: Zachary James Watkins, Jim Haynes, The Toilet
(Sweden), Dj Koloni (Sweden)
Zachary James Watkins' Suite For String Quartet is written
specifically for resonant spaces, interactive electronics, audience
participation and string quartet. Suite for String Quartet has been
in a continuous state of "revision" since Christmas 2004. For this
current version I have developed a new tuning for all 16 strings.
Each string of the quartet is retuned to an odd number partial of
60Hz. Seattle artist Joe Grey will perform live improvised video
animation.
Please feel free to explore the space, move quickly, move slowly,
make subtle movements, dance! Listen to the unique characteristics of
the space and the sounds being performed by the loud speakers,
strings players and each other!
Theresa Wong, Cello
Emily Packard, Viola
Hande Erdum, Violin
Marielle Jakobsons, Violin
Zachary James Watkins, Electronics
Joeseph Gray, Live Animation
Jim Haynes manifests a broken minimalism whose magnetic drones give
the impression of timelessness, when in fact the environment is quite
active. Drawing from shortwave radio static, electric field
disturbances, controlled feedback manipulation, and numerous textural
scrapings, this engineering of disparate materials and media seeks to
evince the unpredictability of decay, to manifest its potential for a
rough hewn beauty, and to bare witness to its inevitability.
The Toilet creates his music by using recycled sound material, once
used and then forgotten by previous musicians and artists. The old
sounds are picked out from the bad conscience of music, torn into
pieces by the Toilet to be reshaped into new sparkling music. This
process of recycling creates a feeling of familiarity between the
music and the audience as they pick up on recognizable sounds.
Through the quick pace and sharp turns of the music feelings of
nostalgia and long lost memories develops while before their eyes The
Toilet dances, a happy bloody clown, free from the norms, quilt and
ideals of the society to whom he performs.

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SIXTYHURTS 001
sixtyhurts.com
chuck johnson

Charles Johnson / Zachary James Watkins split CD
The first release on the 60Hurts label, featuring recordings of the
premieres of my piece Meet me by the pleroma and Zachary James
Watkins’ Suite for String Quartet. Both pieces use just intonation
tuning systems based on a fundamental frequency of 60Hz. CD’s are
$10 post paid in the U.S.
Meet me by the pleroma (for violin, long string instrument, slentem,
and electronics) reveals the usually inaudible difference tones that
result from two pitches sounding together. These “sonic entities”
affect our perceptions of dissonance, consonance, and tonality, and
they are treated here as harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic material.
Suite for String Quartet has been in a continuous state of "revision"
since Christmas 2004. For this current version Watkins developed a
new tuning for all 16 strings. Each string of the quartet is retuned
to an odd number partial of 60Hz. Suite For String Quartet is written
specifically for resonant spaces, interactive electronics, audience
participation and string quartet.
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zachary james watkins
http://zacharyjameswatkins.com/
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