Pittsburgh New Music Net

Carnegie Music Hall
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Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society opens its 50th Anniversary season with the Orion String Quartet performing Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and …Webern? Yes! Webern’s Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 is on the program, and while one might have wished they would have maintained the alliteration and played Berg, it will be wonderful to hear some music from the Second Viennese school all the same. Represent, Anton! Do people still say “Represent!”? I didn’t think so.

Full details about the program here.

VIA is a huge multi-date, multi-venue festival of new media for sound and visual artists with workshops/installations. There’s so much stuff going on and so many different artists and presenters, I’m just going to send you here.

Of particular interest to composers might be this event featuring David Borden,

“the creative force behind the world’s first synthesizer ensemble, Mother Mallard’s Portable Masterpiece Co. (1969), and founder of Cornell’s Digital Music Department, will perform with emerging artists Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never, Ford & Lopatin), Laurel Halo, James Ferraro (Skaters), and Samuel Godin. This event marks the international live premier for the ensemble since recording FRKWYS Vol. 7 as part of the Brooklyn label RVNG Intl.’s FRKWYS series, which pairs contemporary artists with those who have preceded them in sound or approach.

“CMU Professor of Music & Computer Science, Roger Dannenberg, will provide an introduction followed by a short lecture from Borden, “The Moog Synthesizer Lecture: The Man I Knew and the Machine I Learned”, revealing inside stories on the development of the Moog Synthesizer and its creator, Bob Moog.”

It’s happening Thursday night, October 6 at CMU’s Kresge Theater.

H/T Marielle Saums