NATCHITOCHES – Electronic and electro acoustic composer and musician Neil Rolnick will appear in concert at Northwestern State University at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 7 in Magale Recital Hall. Rolnick will present “WakeUp: mashups & laptop performances,” accompanied by art visuals by artists such as filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
The event is sponsored by the School of Creative and Performing Arts as part of the music technology and business program and the Department of Fine and Graphic Art. Admission is free and open to the public.
A pioneer in the use of computers in performance since the late 1970s, Dr. Rolnick’s music has been performed around the world, including recent performances in Cuba, China, Mexico and across the U.S. and Europe, and appears on 22 commercial recordings.
His string quartet “Oceans Eat Cities” was performed at the UN Global Climate Summit in Paris in 2015. Since 2016, he has received support from CEC ArtsLink, the Bogliasco Foundation, New Music USA, the Marion Foundation, Millay Arts, the Wurlitzer Foundation and NYSCA.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s Rolnick developed the first integrated electronic arts graduate and undergraduate programs in the United States at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Information on Rolnick is available at http://www.neilrolnick.com.
For information on the concert at NSU, contact Collier Hyams, professor of art, digital art and multimedia, at hyamsc@nsula.edu.
