Texas Performing Arts presents Jean Piché, Video Music Composer, 9/9

Texas Performing Arts presents Jean Piché, Video Music Composer at the McCullough Theatre (2350 Robert Dedman Dr) on Thursday, September 9, 2010, at 8PM. Tickets are $22 for general admission; there is a limited number of $10 tickets for students and other discounted tickets available for UT faculty & staff, seniors and military. They are on sale at the box office, online at TexasPerformingArts.org, or by calling (512) 477-6060 or (800) 982-BEVO.

Since the early 1970s, Jean Piché was one of the first composers to employ emerging digital audio technologies in a cycle of fixed media works acknowledged as seminal to the form. His works cross every genre of electro-acoustics but now center on video-music in which electronic visuals become an extension of musical discourse. His work aims for poetic expression beyond any avowed formalism, while alternately described as confounding, colorful and virtuosic.

Defending an inclusivist aesthetic, he directed the last New Music America festival in 1990, and as a teacher at the Université de Montréal since the late 1980s, he has nurtured a number of young artists into diverse careers in new media and music.

As a music and video software designer he is the creator of many innovative applications, amongst them Cecilia, a popular front end to the audio language Csound. In a collaboration with the MIT Media Lab and the One Laptop per Child Foundation, he designed and authored the TamTam music software suite running on the « One Laptop per Child » XO computer.

Since 2006 he directs the institut Arts, Cultures et Technologies (iACT), a major new media research collective at the Université de Montréal sponsoring hi-end research on such topics as hyper-definition imagery, immersive audiovisuals and gestural control.

Photo Credit: Marie Gaudreau

 

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