To hear on Sunday 31 May and 7 June 2009, 2 pm - 9 pm:
Bullet Train Ballad No.1
by Antti Sakari Saario
Antti Sakari Saario on "Bullet Train Ballad No.1":
Fleeting transients and multiple stratas of time and perspective - the observed and the observer - bullet train and the stone garden - paradoxes in motion.
Antti Sakari Saario
is an award-winning fixed-media composer fusing acousmatic techniques with eclectic musical and sonic interests. His work has been performed in concerts, dance performances, festivals and installations in England, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Canada, Germany and Italy amongst others and has been broadcast worldwide. Saario’s process and output are always informed by the experiential encounter with one’s environment, whether aural, cultural or purely abstract. Currently he lectures Music Technology at Lancaster University’s Institute for the Contemporary Arts (LICA), where along with his teaching he is working on practice-based research into fixed-media composition, its performance applications and experimental production techniques.
Antti Sakari Saario