Data Stream: Live Electronic Music Improvisation

Sandy Nordahl, Scot Schwestka, and Peter Hamlin ’73 celebrate a musical friendship and creative collaboration that goes back 30 years, with improvisatory concerts that explore electronic technology’s many possibilities for performance and sound. Schwestka is a virtuoso guitarist, singer, and composer who is also a visual artist and instrument builder. Nordahl is a versatile bassist and keyboardist with extensive experience as an electronic music composer and teacher, recording engineer, programmer, and creator of interactive digital visual art. Hamlin has been interested in electronics since childhood and works with sound design and performance on non-traditional instruments as well as live processing of acoustic instruments and voice. They will be joined on stage by Music/Computer Science major and vocalist Fiona Sullivan ‘19, saxophone/flute master Matthew Evan Taylor, and guitarist/Chapman Stick artist Mark Christensen. Free