GUA in Linz, Austria

J. Corey Knoll, Andy Larson and I have been accepted to premiere a new piece for digital instrument (GUA) and Tuba at the International Tuba Euphonium Conference in Linz, Austria.

Andy Larson, winner of the Tuba Artist Division and Gold Medalist at the 2011 Leonard Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Festival, August 15, 2011 proposed a new work for Tuba and GUA with Corey and me for ITEC 2012.

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1. the compositional development of the piece.

It’s going to be a collaborative composition between J. Corey and me. We’ve already begun pre-composing.
The work is going to be ~10 minutes. We have top notch tuba performers and we want to show off our digital instrument. Compositionally, we have our work our cut out for us.

2. notational development for a piece with digital instrument with iPad controller.

Historically, compositions for created instrument, especially where the interfaces are knobs and sliders (let alone any non-acoustic instrument) for musical performance has been poorly notated. Corey and I will explore prior works and try to create an understandable, learnable, and teachable notational standard for our instrument GUA.

3. the development of GUA.

This instrument has been in constant development. It originally grew from a laptop interface, where you controlled knobs in sliders with a trackpad, to M-Audio Trigger Finger, to iPad. We’ve grown to include other user interfaces, like foot pedals and other midi controllers. GUA itself seems to growing into a more customizable modular instrument.

4. contribution opportunities to help Andy, Corey, and me travel and perform in Linz, Austria.

We have created kickstarter account to help defray the upfront costs of going to Oporto, Portugal and Linz, Austria.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nickhwang/american-musicians-abroad-0