Composer Matthew Suttor, a visiting lecturer in the Department of Music, will present a multimedia solo performance based of Balzac's "Sarrasine" at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 19, in the Digital Media Center for the Arts, 149 York St.
The event is free and open to the public.
"Sarrasine" is the story of a French sculptor who falls for an Italian castrato, believing the singer to be his feminine ideal. Suttor's work will use interactive innovative real-time audio and video technology from the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music in Amsterdam.
This new technology will allow Suttor to literally step in and out of video and will create a sonic world which will simultaneously suggest the 18th century of Balzac as well as the modern era. The sonic world of the performance will be a blend of a Suttor's recorded voice reading from Balzac's text and a virtual ensemble of the processed sounds of castrato, mbira, penny whistle, harpsichord, jaw harp, concertina and violin. The audience will be invited to dispel notions of chronology and geography, and imagine a landscape which fuses past, present, virtual and real.
Suttor was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 1992 to study with computer music pioneer Charles Dodge in New York City, and went on to receive a D.M.A. in composition from Columbia University in 1999. He recently completed an hour-long work for Pina Bausch's dance company at the Volkwang Hochschule in Essen.
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