Flicker Fusion w/Bryan Jacobs

About this event

Flicker Fusion

Whistles, Machines and the Natural World. A multimedia mashup of human and non-human listening modes, experiences of varying temporal resolutions, mechanized sound and mechanical instruments.

About Bryan Jacobs

Composer, performer, and sound artist, Bryan Jacobs ' work focuses on interactions between live performers, mechanical instruments and computers. His pieces are often theatrical in nature, pitting blabber-mouthed fanciful showoffs against timid reluctants. The sounds are playfully organized and many times mimic patterns found in human and non-human dialogue. Hand-built electromechanical instruments controlled by microcontrollers bridge acoustic and electroacoustic sound worlds. These instruments live dual lives as time-based concert works and non-time-based gallery works.

About line upon line

Formed in 2009 at The University of Texas at Austin, line upon line exists to foster musical creativity through championing living composers.

The Austin-based group has premiered hundreds of new works for percussion and has worked with composers in residencies at Harvard University, Stanford University, Cal Poly, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, Kunstuniversität Graz, University College Dublin, University of Huddersfield, University of Liverpool, City University of London and Monash University (Melbourne).

Internationally, line upon line has performed at New Music Dublin, the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), Open Circuit Festival (Liverpool), Novalis Festival (Osijek), in Basel (Hochschule für Musik), Berlin (Unerhörte Musik), Cologne (Loft Köln), Freiburg (Hochschule für Musik), Graz (Open Music), Koper (Koper Biennale) and London (City, University of London), and has taught at conservatories in Melbourne, Sydney, Cork (MTU School of Music), London (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), Manchester (Royal Northern College of Music) and Tours (Le pôle Aliénor).

Nationally, the group has performed and taught in twenty-six different states, at two Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, the Festival of New American Music (Sacramento) and The Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT).

line upon line consists of Cullen Faulk, Matthew Teodori and emeritus member, Adam Bedell.

From line upon line