Third Eye Orchestra – Hans Tammen (DE/US)
THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA
http://tammen.org/third-eye-laptop-orchestra/
workshop & performance
THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA is looking for 10 – 15 performers—circuit bent instruments, laptops, analog synths, no-input mixers and other electronic instruments, etc.—to present a large multi-movement piece, thoroughly composed and purely improvised at the same time.
Interesting in being a performer? Sign for the workshop up by contacting Hans Tammen directly: hanst@harvestworks.org
Workshop and performance will employ the techniques of Hans Tammen’s THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA concept, in which he works with a score that is rearranged every time it is performed, and which is adaptable to any instrumentation. These open-form compositions for large ensembles are based on numerous “building blocks” (called “units”) that are constantly rearranged when performed. The score is a graphical score, and does not require experience with traditional scores or instruments. The final performance is between 45 and 60 minutes long.
The workshop is basically to see what instruments the performers bring, what works best for the performance, and for the performers to understand how the score is used. The evening performance will see the conductor as a musician, using the orchestra as an instrument, while each circuit-bender or laptop performer shapes the music through virtuosic improvisation and the individual stylization of musical performance.
Third Eye Workshops have been presented in Mexico, Bulgaria, Russia, Ukraine, and in the US.
bio:
Hans Tammen creates music that has been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds, with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions, but also quiet pulses and barely audible noises – through means of his “Endangered Guitar” and interactive software programming, by working with the room itself, and, as a critic observed, with his “…fingers stuck in a high voltage outlet”. Signal To Noise called his works “…a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”, All Music Guide recommended him: “…clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.”
His numerous projects include site-specific performances and collaborative efforts with dance, light, video, and theatre, utilizing technology from planetarium projectors to guitar robots and disklavier pianos. He received a Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in the category Digital/Electronic Arts in 2009 for the ”Endangered Guitar” – a hybrid guitar/software instrument used to control interactive live sound processing.
His THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA open form compositions for large ensembles and live sound processing, or laptop/electronic ensembles, are inspired by Earle Brown’s Available Forms, and based on numerous scored “building blocks” that are constantly rearranged when performed.
His works have been presented on festivals in the US, Canada, Mexico, Russia, India and all over Europe. He recorded on labels such as Innova, ESP-DISK, Nur/Nicht/Nur, Creative Sources, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, and Hybrid.
