Cornell Set
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Movements:
- Gorge Dweller: Evensong I (Tacey M. Atsitty)
- Elegy for a Car (Clayton Pityk)
- What is Broken (Benjamin Garcia)
- In Mid-Autumn: Shanxi Province 2007 (Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers)
Additional Information:
- The 4-channel computer music requires Max/MSP or pure data for performance.
- This work was made possible by a generous commission from the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Cornell University, with special thanks to Alice Fulton and the collaborating poets.
- Included on the album Improbable Encounters (innova 873, 2014).
Program Note:
In the spring of 2010, I was contacted by poet and Cornell University English Professor, Alice Fulton — whose poems I had set to computer music several years earlier — about undertaking a similar project with the second-year MFA poetry students in Cornell’s Creative Writing Program. A dozen poems were submitted for consideration, from which four — each by a different poet — were selected for this collection. The poems were chosen for their contrasting content and style, allowing for a variety of approaches in the computer music setting as well. Specific references in the text provided the impetus for many of the processed sounds (e.g., cars and dogs in the Pityk poem, birds and rain in the Garcia poem); in some cases, the text reading itself provided the source material (this occurs to some degree in each setting, though the computer music in the Atsitty poem is based entirely on a reading of the text by the poet).
Cornell Set was commissioned by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Cornell University. The work was first performed by poets Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, and Elizabeth Rogers on 15 April 2011 at Cornell University. It is included on the album Improbable Encounters (innova 873, 2014).
Performance/Broadcast History:
Date | Venue | Location | Performer(s) |
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30 July 2024 | Gli Spazzi dell'Immaginario": webcast on www.radioarte.it, for the Chigiana International Festival and Summer Academy 2024 | Siena, Italy | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |
23 July 2024 | Gli Spazzi dell'Immaginario": webcast on www.radioarte.it, for the Chigiana International Festival and Summer Academy 2024 | Siena, Italy | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |
16 July 2024 | Gli Spazzi dell'Immaginario": webcast on www.radioarte.it, for the Chigiana International Festival and Summer Academy 2024 | Siena, Italy | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |
30 March 2024 | "Gli Spazzi dell'Immaginario": webcast on www.radioarte.it | Siena, Italy | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |
23 March 2024 | "Gli Spazzi dell'Immaginario": webcast on www.radioarte.it | Siena, Italy | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |
16 March 2024 | "Gli Spazzi dell'Immaginario": webcast on www.radioarte.it | Siena, Italy | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |
9 March 2024 | "Gli Spazzi dell'Immaginario": webcast on www.radioarte.it | Siena, Italy | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |
2 March 2024 | "Gli Spazzi dell'Immaginario": webcast on www.radioarte.it | Siena, Italy | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |
21 October 2015 | Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts | Brno, Czech Republic | Joseph Klein, recitation |
24 June 2015 | Abrons Center—New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival | New York City, NY | Joseph Klein, recitation |
18 March 2014 | University of North Texas | Denton, TX | Stephen Morscheck, recitation |
19 October 2013 | Bowling Green State University—34th Annual BGSU New Music Festival | Bowling Green, OH | Elizabeth Pearse, recitation |
20 October 2012 | Living Arts of Tulsa OK Electric Festival | Tulsa, OK | Joseph Klein, recitation |
26 May 2012 | Sichaun Conservatory of Music | Chengdu, China | Joseph Klein, recitation |
1 March 2012 | Connecticut College—13th Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium | New London, CT | David Jaffe, recitation |
3 October 2011 | University of North Texas | Denton, TX | Heidi Dietrich Klein, recitation |
15 April 2011 | Cornell University—Department of English Reading Series | Ithaca, NY | Tacey M. Atsitty, Clayton Pityk, Benjamin Garcia, & Elizabeth Rogers — recitation |