Gypsy Pond Hockey Music

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Gypsy Pond Hockey Music

Digital Music Ensemble, directed by Stephen Rush

+ members of the U-M Hockey Team

Feb. 26, 2016 YOST ICE ARENA (seriously).

Digital Music Ensemble, directed by Stephen Rush, and the U-M hockey team to find out what happens if you turn a hockey game into an

techno-ambient music concert. Ever wonder if ice emits tone clusters? What does a contact mic sound like on an ice skate?

The Digital Music Ensemble will be hosting a30-minute concert on the Moore Building pond on Tuesday, February 11 at 7 pm. In collaboration with the U-M hockey team, they will be exploring how the natural sound of a live hockey game can be translated into music in real time.

Mics frozen in ice, oxygen tanks, a choir of freezing students, trance-dub music, what could go wrong?

Stephen Rush has written 7 operas, over fifty works for Dance, chamber and electronic works, concertos, and three symphonies, performed by the Detroit Symphony and the Warsaw National Symphony. He has authored two books, including Free Jazz, Harmolodics, and Ornette Coleman. He has recordings on Nessa, Pi, Innova, ESP Disk’, Equilibrium, Deep Listening, Centaur, MMC, RogueArts,
Eroica, Summit and Cala Records
(with the New York Philharmonic Chamber Musicians).

He is Professor of Music at the University of Michigan, where he founded the Digital Music Ensemble (DME) which he has directed for 25 years. DME he has worked with Pauline Oliveros, Elliott Sharp, Alvin Lucier and Robert Ashley, and premiered works by John Cage, Philip Glass and
La Monte Young.

Rush has over 35 CDs released, and has performed or recorded with Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Grimes, Eliott Sharp, Steve Swell, Eugene Chadbourne, Peter Kowald and Art Ensemble of Chicago. He also tours and records with his electronic psychedelic improvisation band, “Crystal Mooncone.”

He is also deeply invested in “Installation Art”, with current works in collaboration with Michael Gould and Henry Pollack (Nobel Prize winning physicist) – World Without Ice,
as well as “Jeweled Net of the Vast Invisible” in collaboration with scientists at the Fermi Lab.