31-Tone Composition and Improvisation — Talk presented by Georg Vogel (free and open to the public)

Name: 31-Tone Composition and Improvisation — Talk presented by Georg Vogel (free and open to the public)
Start: 2025-02-19T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Bellefield Hall, Room 205

Schedule

Wed, 19 Feb, 2025 at 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Bellefield Hall, Room 205 | Pittsburgh, PA

BEYOND: MICROTONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS:
Austrian composer, keyboardist, and instrument maker Georg Vogel visits Pitt to talk about 31-tone composition and improvisation.
This talk is free and open to the public.

About Georg Vogel:
He is a composer of works in polytonal/microtonal tuning systems and for newly developed instruments, such as the 31-tone Claviton keyboards; he has also developed and built the multi-tonal keyboard instruments E-, A- and M-Claviton with 31 keys per octave. Performed and published compositions at numerous concerts and on several recordings. He has authored theoretical works on the subjects of n-tolic time signatures, rhythmic systematics and improvisation, compositional techniques, and polytonal/microtonal music. He is co-editor of the journal “Enharmntolische Theorie & Praxis” and has been a guest lecturer on intonation and tuning at the University of Music in Vienna and at numerous European symposia and conferences on microtonality.
Aside from regular solo performances, he leads the 31-tone ensemble Dsilton (with David Dornig and Valentin Duit), Flower (with Raphael Preuschl and Michael Prowaznik), Tree (with Andreas Waelti and Michael Prowaznik).
Dsilton will be opening the 2025 Microtonal Music festival with a free concert at City of Asylum on Thursday February 20th, at 7 PM.

about BEYOND: MICROTONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 2025

The Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival 2025 is a follow-up to Music on the Edge's very successful Beyond Festivals in 2020, 2018 and 2015 which according to the Post-Gazette "made a compelling case for the continued integration of microtonal music into Pittsburgh’s performing arts scene and provided a look at the vibrant community that already exists." Our last festival was in March of 2020, just days before the pandemic struck. We are very excited to present the Beyond festival again in 2025 together with our festival partners City of Asylum, Carnegie Mellon University and WQED.

Microtonal music is music that uses tuning systems other than, or in addition to, the standard twelve-note equal tempered system that is the norm in Western popular and classical music. This norm has been evolving with many composers in all idioms currently using a variety of tuning approaches influenced by world music, early music, and physics and acoustics, to name a few.

The fourth Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival will explore connections between early music tuning and contemporary works, microtonal sound installations and sound environments, transnational microtonal jazz, as well as a wide variety of other approaches to microtonal composition. There will be five world premieres, works by local composers Paul Gallagher, Ryan McMasters, Eric Moe, Amy Williams and Mathew Rosenblum, and videos by Pittsburgh artists who have created visual responses to the music. Featured artists include JACK Quartet, Ekmeles, Ellen Fullman, Dsilton, Theophilus Root, Eric Moe, Ryan McMasters and Scott Pauley. We look forward to seeing you at the concerts and talks.

full festival passes can be found at:
https://ci.ovationtix.com/36300/store/packages/143994