Graduate Contextual Concert by Lea Bertucci: “The Wolfman” [NEW TIME]

Sunday, December 8, 2024 at 7:00pm
World Music Hall

Free and open to the public

For her contextual concert, graduate music student Lea Bertucci will interpret the notorious 1964 solo piece The Wolfman by Robert Ashley (1930–2014). Earplugs will be provided.

From Lovely Music Ltd.: 

The Wolfman was composed in early 1964 and first performed on Charlotte Moorman’s festival of the avant-garde in New York in the fall of the same year, gaining considerable reputation as a threat to the listener’s health. The idea of a tape composition, which is to come out of the same loudspeakers as the voice and the feedback (the main sound source for this composition), is to fill-in the ongoing performance sound and to transform the performance into an elaborate version of the ‘drone’ under the influence of electronics. The choice of what sounds should be on the tape is determined by the need to have the whole range of frequencies brought into the feedback, but to give those sounds a short duration—in other words, a blizzard of very short sounds across the whole frequency range—so that the illusion of the sounds coming from all parts of the room is preserved.

For information about other concerts by graduate music students, visit the Graduate Contextual Concerts series page.