"beautifully played"
— NY Times
The 2009-2010 season will feature a new concert series of contemporary ensemble and solo works entitled Collide-O-Scope Music. Mr. Arnone wil co-direct the series along with composers Christopher Bailey and Stephen Gorbos. The Collide-O-Scope Music concerts will be immersive multi-media experiences that combine video projections of avant-garde short films, colorful animated kaleidoscopes, and text collages with solo and ensemble works drawn from the past half-century.
The musical works were chosen for the programs with a focus on innovative or extended musical mediums. These musical mediums include both physical/practical extensions: microtonal composition, electronic sound and signal processing, non-traditional notation, and extended playing techniques; as well as conceptual extensions: computer assisted composition, the use of chance operations, and the application of innovative theoretical or mathematical models. The composers represented will include Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Elliott Carter, Edmund Campion, Liza Lim, Jason Eckardt, Stephen Gorbos, and Christopher Bailey. The diversity of mediums employed in these works emphasizes the role technology has assumed within the contemporary artistic landscape in forming new aesthetic environments.
As part of this series Mr. Arnone will be performing an exciting selection of solo works including the complete Music of Changes (Books I-IV) of John Cage, as well as his Etudes Australes (Book I), and Iannis Xenakis's Mists. Mr. Arnone will also be performing Edmund Campion's Natural Selection: a real-time performance environment for computer and midi-equipped piano.