Instructor
Critical Media Practices, CMCI, University of Colorado, Boulder
Undirected Direction: Using Interactive Film, Image, and Sound to Facilitate Creativity in Live Performance
Friday, September 16, 12:00-1:00, in ATLAS 311
Hunter Ewen will present and discuss works in progress, past works, and historical influences on the relationship between specificity of instructions and performer creativity. How does a creator deliver an instructive message to a performer? What is the responsibility of an artist to establish a language to communicate directions clearly? How does a performer's relationship to emotion, aesthetic, and subtext change depending on specificity of score? The discussion will focus on music composition, non-narrative film, documentary, performance art, and sound-art.
Ewen has spent the last ten years exploring this phenomenon through graphic music notation, transmedia storytelling, experimental musical instruments and user interface designs. He was a founding member and former director of the Boulder Laptop Orchestra (BLOrk) and is the founder and director of the Boulder Image and Sound Network (BISoN) iPad ensemble. His work has garnered awards and performances from SEAMUS, Punto y Raya, Ouroboros Review, The Playground Ensemble, Manchester New Music, New Horizons Festival, BEAST FEaST, EMM, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Gamma UT, Studio 300, and his graphic scores were featured prominently in the Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Armor, Amour, by Amy Pence. Ewen鈥檚 work has been performed across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia by groups like the Beethoven Academy Orchestra, Cairo Symphony, Silesian Philharmonic, Greater Cleveland Flute Society, Science on a Sphere, Frequent Flyers Aerial Dance, Third Coast Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, and by distinguished performers like Greg Banaszak, Lina Bahn, and Bill Mooney.