The Goethe-Institut Boston in collaboration with the Cultural Services of the French Consulate, Harvard University, and Northeastern University will be presenting a very interesting three-day festival of electroacoustic music. Sound in Space Festival, bringing together prominent representatives of top-notch institutions in Germany, France, and the USA, will create performance opportunities for composers enrolled in North American institutions and will commemorate the beginnings of electroacoustic music in the 1950s. The festival will run from November 17 to 19 at Northeastern University’s Fenway Center, 77 St. Stephen Street, Boston. The Awards Ceremony and Closing Reception will be at the Goethe-Institut Boston, 170 Beacon Street, Boston
The “performers” at these events will be the 32 loudspeakers of the Harvard University “Hydra” Speaker-Orchestra, a sound projection system designed for the performance of electroacoustic music with or without the participation of instrumentalists. Distributed both horizontally and vertically, in order to provide a wide range of sound planes and perspectives, the speakers are controlled by two interfaces with 32 faders, permitting real time control and configuration for each work performed. [continued]