West Virginia University music faculty member Michael Ibrahim will present a faculty saxophone recital at the Creative Arts Center, Saturday (Jan. 22), featuring Amp, a new music group based in New York City.

The program begins at 8:15 p.m. in Bloch Learning and Performance Hall (200A) and is titled “Amplified.” It will feature new music for saxophone and electronics.

Compositions include works of the European avant-garde, as well as pieces by Amp co-directors, Adam Mirza and Gregory Cornelius.

“Amplified” features Ibrahim and sound projection by Cornelius. The centerpiece of the concert is Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Edentia” for soprano saxophone and electronic music, the 20th Hour from the cycle “Klang – the 24 Hours of the Day.”

According to Ibrahim, “Edentia,” composed in 2007, is one of Stockhausen’s final compositions.

“Like many of his later works, it defies easy categorization,” Ibrahim said. “Looped electronic melodies spiral through space and time (spatialized for eight loudspeakers at the Freiburg Experimental Studio for Acoustic Art) in evocation, perhaps, of the cosmic voice, while through this mesmerizing vortex rises the quizzical saxophone.”

For more information contact the College of Creative Arts at 304-293-4359.

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CONTACT: Charlene Lattea, College of Creative Arts
304-293-4359, Charlene.Lattea@mail.wvu.edu

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