Marcus Center Presents Unruly Music Festival Held 4/15-18

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts and the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts are excited to present Unruly Music. This four-night audio and visual experience includes concerts by chamber music ensemble C2 and compositions and performances by Peck School of the Arts faculty and students.

The festival runs April 15-18 at 7:30pm in Vogel Hall.
Unruly Music has been producing virtuoso performances of postclassical music in Milwaukee since 2006. Under the direction of composer and Peck School faculty member Christopher Burns, the festival spans a wide variety of genres and styles, exploring contemporary trends in chamber music, improvisation, and electronic sound.

The program for the spring 2010 festival is:
Thursday, April 15, 7:30pm
C2: Duo/Solo
Chamber music ensemble C2 returns to Milwaukee for the second phase of their residency with Unruly Music. Lisa Cella (flute) and Franklin Cox (cello) join precision, energy, and intense musicality to create compelling sonic exploration and musical communication. This recital features a kaleidoscopic array of virtuosic solo and duo works.
Friday, April 16, 7:30 pm
Sound and Image
UWM and Milwaukee artists present cutting-edge new works combining sound and video. The program features Physical Changes, a thunderous and hypnotic collaboration between percussionist Jon Mueller and filmmaker David Dinnell. Julie Murray presents her intensely charged video short YSBRYD (spirit). Brent Coughenour juxtaposes cool, mathematical, synthesized sound with warm, representational and emotive video imagery in a live laptop performance.
Saturday, April 17, 7:30 pm
Electric Counterpoint
The ElectroAcoustic Music Center, a research, teaching and performance center allied with the Music Composition and Technology program at UWM, presents a pair of plugged-in classics. Speech gradually transforms into music in a live realization of Alvin Lucier's I am sitting in a room, slowly revealing the sonic fingerprint of Vogel Hall. This concert includes a rare guitar ensemble realization of Steve Reich's pulsing Electric Counterpoint, directed by René Izquierdo and featuring 13 performers from the UWM guitar program.
Sunday, April 18, 7:30 pm
C2: Made in Milwaukee
The C2 duo closes the festival with a program featuring new works by UWM graduate students in composition created especially for them-and taking advantage of their precision, power and authority. This is an extraordinary opportunity to experience a collaboration between the next generation of concert composers and two of today's finest musicians.

Tickets are now on sale at the Marcus Center Box Office by calling 414-273-7206 or at www.MarcusCenter.org. Tickets are $15 for general admission and $7 for students. The cost to see all four concerts is $48.

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