Students LEAP into improvisational performance

Students in Sigi Torinus’ Digital Media and Interactivity class and Brent Lee’s Diverse Music and Practices class are the featured performers for LEAP, a collaborative effort that will combine acoustic and electronic instruments with live audio processing and video mixing. Part of the in/fuse series of free public multimedia performances, it is set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 9, in Lambton Tower’s basement Studio A.

The Windsor Canadian Music Festival continues Friday as the Windsor Symphony Orchestra performs a program of commissioned works for chamber orchestra and interactive electronics by David Eagle, Keith Hamel, Jim Harley and Brent Lee.

Each composer has created a work that takes advantage of 14 individually amplified instruments whose sound is processed through specialized software and diffused through a multichannel sound system.

CBC Radio 2 will record this performance for future broadcast; it will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Assumption University Chapel. Contact the orchestra for tickets at 519-973-1238.

The festival is a collaboration between the University of Windsor School of Music and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra. Find a full schedule of events on the School of Music Web site.

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