Music that seeks to evoke the feeling of travel around the solar system will emanate from Person Recital Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Oct. 28.
Music that seeks to evoke the feeling of travel around the solar system will emanate from Person Recital Hall at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Oct. 28.
Adjunct music faculty member Nathan Zalman, D.M.A., will debut his composition “Oort Cloud Diaries,” performing on flute but accompanied by some decidedly non-flute-like sounds. The free public concert at 7:30 p.m. also will incorporate groups of computer generated virtual instruments.
Zalman calls the instruments “high-end computer-based software synthesizers based on advanced sampling, tone generation, envelope control and complex ambiance generation. I have combined a couple dozen of these in various combinations to form a backing track to accompany me. Like high definition computer animation, the backing tracks are much too complex and computation-intensive to generate in real time, so I've created a CD with the end result.
“What the audience will hear is playback of the CD through large speakers, as well as the sound of the flute passed in real time through a digital effects processor,” he said. “That’s in addition, of course, to the live flute sound.
Elements of traditional classical music join sounds of contemporary and alternative music, even heavy metal, in “Oort Cloud Diaries.” Zalman said the piece seeks to illustrate visits to comets, the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter and other landmarks of outer space. For more information, visit http://zalmanstudios.com or call (919) 962-1039.
Music department Web site: http://music.unc.edu/
Music department contact: Nathan Zalman, (919) 962-1039, zalmann@gmail.com