Spark Festival
| SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts | |
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 Ana-Maria Avram conducting | |
| Genre | Electronic music, |
| Location(s) | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Years active | 2001-present |
| Founded by | Douglas Geers |
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| SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts | |
The SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts is an electronic music festival held in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 2001. Founded by Douglas Geers, over the years it has featured artists such as Katharina Rosenberger.
Overview
Since 2001, the SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts brings scholars and performers of electronic music to the West Bank Arts Quarter for an intensive weekend of lectures, performances, master classes, and multimedia installations on the latest in electronic and electroacoustic music and art. Most events are free and open to the public. "The point here is to bring in [performers] and sounds to stretch people's ears a little bit," says Doug Geers, festival organizer and University of Minnesota assistant professor of music. Electronic music, explains Geers, is "an umbrella term meaning anything that is made using electronic sounds as part of the music." Most rock music is electronic music, he says, "because they are using electronic instruments." As is hip-hop, he says, "because [the musicians are] using turntables, amplifiers, and microphones." Electroacoustic music, on the other hand, is a term for a type of experimental music which combines acoustic music with electronics. "And this music, generally, is sort of related to the classical music tradition," adds Geers, "in that we often write pieces for cellos and violins but pipe them through a bunch of weird electronic sound processors so they sound like crazy Jimmy Hendrix sounds."[1]
See also
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References
- ↑ University of Minnesota, Office of the Vice President for University Relations. "Music festival with electronic ties". .umn.edu. Retrieved 2010-03-28.