“Synaesthesia is a minimal guitar composition which uses multiple colored lights in place of sheet music to cue an orchestra of 16 guitarists. The guitarists, dubbed the Color-Tone Drone Orchestra, will be evenly separated into groups of four, and each group will be conducted by one of four globes of colored light. As a globe displays a color, each player in the group will strum a note indicated by the corresponding color-coded fret on his or her guitar. Each light will be programmed to represent one of four layers of the musical composition.

Using this system of colorizing notes, prior knowledge of the composition is not required, and the group can effectively perform the piece with minimal practice, much like using traditional sheet music. However, unlike sheet music, the light cues are visible to the audience, which encourages spectators themselves to draw links between the sounds they hear and the colors they see.”

Opening performances by Tbd. – An Omaha Based Dance Collective and Dereck Higgins

$5

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Past Press: http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2014/06/05/the-color-tone-drone-orchestra-returns-for-synaesthesia-ii

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