Registration

This seminar is free with registration using this form. Registration is limited to a maximum of 20 participants.

Please note: This event will take place in room A-510 on the 5th floor of the Marvin Duchow Music Library (527 Sherbrooke Street West). The library must be accessed via the 3rd floor of the main building. Once inside the library, please make your way to the 5th floor, where room A-510 is in the north-east corner.

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Abstract

Composer Jarosław Kapuściński specializes in creating audiovisual works across various media. Many of his compositions are interactive, often involving musicians—particularly pianists—who control visual content, or more recently, general audiences who paint audiovisual worlds in VR. In this presentation, Kapuściński will discuss his work focusing on the VR collaboration with the OpenEndedGroup, Point Line Piano, a project that reimagines the composition, performance, and reception of piano music by fusing the three modes. As you interact with it, your ears, eyes, and hands act in concert. The work enables a spatial and full-body experience of abstraction not found in any other medium. In a live concert setting it can also be used as an audiovisual instrument.

For more information about Point Line Piano, please see this page. 

Bios

Jarosław Kapuściński

Jarosław Kapuściński is an Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University, where he is affiliated also with the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

His research focuses on intermedia composition, performance, and Japanese traditional aesthetics. Kapuściński has received grants and commissions from numerous international organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts, the Governor General of Canada, and Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) in France. His works have been awarded prizes at festivals in Canada, France, Switzerland, and the United States, and have been presented at venues such as New York MOMA, Spoleto USA, EMPAC NY, Logan Center in Chicago, ZKM in Karlsruhe, Reina Sophia Museum in Madrid, Media Biennale Wroclaw, Warsaw Autumn Festival, Creative Media Center in Hong Kong, Benz Arena in Shanghai, and National Art Centre in Ottawa.

In addition to his artistic work, Kapuściński has collaborated on scholarly websites about Japanese Gagaku music (gagaku.stanford.edu) and Noh Theater (noh.stanford.edu).