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Thursday, September 9, 2010, 8:00 pm
McCullough Theatre
$22

Presented in partnership with the Butler School of Music

Texas Performing Arts invites you to push the envelope of new music with pioneering composer and video artist Jean Piché. Since the early 1970s, he was one of the first composers to employ emerging digital audio technologies in a cycle of fixed media works acknowledged as seminal to the form. His works cross every genre of electro-acoustics but now center on video-music in which electronic visuals become an extension of musical discourse. His work aims for poetic expression beyond any avowed formalism, while alternately described as confounding, colorful and virtuosic.

“Like pure musique-concrète in which all the sounds emerge from recordings of the real world, Piché‘s stunning visual images are derived from the rich movement and color from his unique video recordings. The three screen projections synchronized with his very original musical style are stunning and totally captivating. I believe that his video-music is indeed a new and very powerful genre.” BRUCE PENNYCOOK, UT BUTLER SCHOOL OF MUSIC PROFESSOR IN COMPOSITION

Jean Piché website
Jean Piché, a pioneering video artist, premieres new work in Austin – Austin American-Statesman article

Jean Piché from Curt Yowell on Vimeo.

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