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Tuesday, February 8, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Electronic music to be featured
By JULIE ROBINSON
Staff Reporter
With the idea that music is universal, the School of Fine Arts' "1977 Symposium of Contemporary Music" brings to the University of Kansas this week a guest composer with a brand of music anyone can enjoy.
Ronald Pellegrino, a composer-performer on electronic musical instruments, will present a multi-media show in which he uses four synthesizers and visual effects generated by a laser deflection system.
He further illustrates his music with a 18 millimeter and two 35 millimeter slide
The effect, according to Pellgrino, is two-dimensional music, manifested in a rhythmless, repetitive pattern.
"The visual material is just another type of music," he said yesterday.
PELLEGRINO SAID people were generally excited about his music because it appealed to all the senses. However, he said, "if find that person in the age of 14, I will be extremely excited. They are so bent on the material world, they don't have time for fantastic imagery."
Pellegrino said he was at the University of Wisconsin when synthesizers first appeared on that campus. He said he was audited by the instrument's sound and power.
"Composers can do so much with them,
they can combine them and make them sound like a full orchestra," he said.
A common misconception is that sym-
phonics are musical instruments, according
to which they are played.
"Different synthesizers sound different, and each person playing one sounds different. While they can be used to simulate musical instruments, they are really electronic instruments and that's the way I use them," he said.
SYNTHESIZERs have been around since 1970, according to Peligrose, and he says because of the "chronic influx"
"While rock and jazz put them in a more popular vein, there is nothing faddish about it."
Pellegrino has made "a fair-sized spiritual and economical investment" in traveling around the country conducting seminars similar to KU's, which demonstrate the use of light and sound electronically and emphasize improvisation.
He has been performing live electronic music since 1970 on Moog, Synta, ARP and Buchi synthesizers at museums, libraries, music festivals throughout the United States and Europe.
THE 36 YEAR-OLD Wisconsin native has published several articles, a book, "An Electronic Music Studio Manual," and has taught electronic music; music theory and composition; and electronic music studies at the Oberlin Conservatory and Ohio State University.
Last night, Pellegrino demonstrated his
concert 'Concert of Sound and Light' in
Swarburt Beach.
Today, Warner Morse, professor of philosophy will讲 on "A Philosopher's View of New Music," at 10:30 a.m. He will give a lecture-demonstration at 2:30 p.m.; and there will be "A Concert of New Music" at 8 p.m.
Three electronic music artists, Markwood Holmes, Lainie Jorge Gonzales and Mario Braga.
Two more days of activities are planned, free of charge, in Swarachout Rehall Hall.
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THE FINAL concert features works by two students, one faculty member and performances by the KU Chamber Chair and KU Percussion Ensemble. Pellergino is to play compositions by KU students during the improvisation workshop.
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"Concerto for Timpani and Metal Orchestra" by Bruce Penner, Lawrence senior; "Songs of Dao" by Vicki Burkard, Manhattan senior; and "Arp Piece" by Edward Matttila, professor of music, are to be performed.
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THE CONCERT of New Music features works by three KU students and one faculty member: "Hommage to Mendeleev" by Leon Burke, St. Louis graduate student; "Piano Sonata" by Steve Rice, Lawrence Hurson, St. Louis graduate; "Huron, Topeka senior"; and "Tennisonia; Three Impressions after Tennyson" by Charles Hoag, professor of music theory.
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