Composer, performer, cutting-edge technologist, educator. To say that both Ian Dicke and Mari Kimura inhabit multiple spaces at any given moment would be an understatement. In this concert, they share with the T@MS audience what they’ve been working on. For Ian, it’s his Cowboy Rounds for singing pianist and live electronic processing. A work deliberately caught between the ideological constructs of permanence and ephemera while building an intersection between new technologies and old traditions. Mari brings us a world premiere piece for violin and tape from Eric Chaslow, as well as works for her Mugic Augmented Violin motion sensing glove.

Don’t miss this unique concert!

Ian Dicke is a composer inspired by social-political culture and music technology. Praised for his “refreshingly well-structured” (Feast of Music) and “uncommonly memorable” (Sequenza 21) catalogue of works, Dicke’s music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles and soloists around the world, including the New World Symphony, Alarm Will Sound, the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, Paul Dresher Ensemble, pianist Vicky Chow, The MATA Festival, ISCM World New Music Days, and the Atlantic Coast Center Band Director’s Association. Dicke has received grants, awards, and recognition from the Hellman Foundation, Barlow Endowment, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, New Music USA, New York Youth Symphony, ASCAP, and BMI, among others. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to research interactive musical interfaces and environments in Stockholm, Sweden and has served as an artist in residence at various institutions, including the MacDowell Colony and Atlantic Center for the Arts. In addition to his creative activities as a composer, Dicke runs Novel Music, a software company that specializes in unique and intuitive instruments designed to encourage happy accidents and inspire new musical ideas. He is also the founder and curator of the Outpost Concert Series, which connects Riverside, California’s musical culture with groundbreaking artists across the national contemporary music landscape. Dicke currently serves as an Associate Professor of Composition at the University of California, Riverside.

Mari Kimura is a violinist/composer and a leading figure in the field of interactive computer music. As a violinist, Mari is renowned for her mastery of subharmonics—the production of pitches that sound up to an octave below the violin’s lowest string—as well as for her dynamic performances as an improviser and her premieres of many notable compositions by today’s composers. She has received numerous awards and grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fromm Commission Award, a residency at IRCAM, and a Composers Now creative residency at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.  In recognition of her ground-breaking work, Mari was named one of “Immigrants: Pride of America” by the Carnegie Corporation, published in the New York Times.   Mari’s works have been supported by numerous commissions and awards including: New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts International, New Music USA/Meet The Composer, International Computer Music Association, Music from Japan, Harvestworks, Japan Foundation, Argosy Foundation, Vilcek Foundation, and New York State Council on the Arts.  As an educator, Mari is the founding chair of Future Music Lab at the Atlantic Music Festival since 2013.  A graduate faculty at Juilliard since 1998, and she was appointed as a Full Professor of Music at “Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology” program (ICIT) at University of California, Irvine.  In September 2020, Mari released MUGIC™ commercially. MUGIC™ is now available at https://mugicmotion.com/