A recent work for saxophone and digital sound file, “Gridlock,” by University of Alabama at Birmingham Associate Professor of Music William Price, DMA, will be performed at the Electroacoustic Barn Dance.
The annual three-day festival of electronic music and art, to be held Nov. 7-9 on the University of Mary Washington campus in Fredericksburg, Va., will include works by more than 70 artists and composers from across the country. The works will be presented in 13 concerts.
Originally commissioned and premiered by saxophonist John Perrine at the 2012 World Saxophone Congress, “Gridlock” explores structural chance and improvisational choice as determinants of musical structure. Using multiple variants of a limited number of electroacoustic “events,” the saxophonist, using a limited number of written “choices,” reacts and improvises to a predetermined yet ever-changing collage of musical styles and narratives. Price teaches music theory and composition in the UAB Department of Music.