Sound engineer Mike Duffy explains his role in Zeitgeist's upcoming Early Music Festival celebrating "The Electronic Age: Medium and Message."


I'm working with Zeitgeist on four pieces for the Early Music Festival concerts: Stockhausen's Mikrophonie I, Lucier's Music on a Long Thin Wire and I Am Sitting In a Room, and Reich's Pendulum Music. All of them use relatively simple systems to call attention to things we miss in ordinary listening, amplification of small sounds or the overlooke...
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I am very excited to be working on a realization of Stockhausen's mammoth "Mikrophonie I" for our upcoming electronic music concerts! This is a classic 1960s electro-acoustic work for large amplified gong that is manipulated in a huge variety of ways by four players, plus two more running the sound board. I first heard this work live when I was a graduate student and it blew me away. In fact it takes me all the way back to high school, when I remember vividly the first time I ever saw a large...
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