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Mark Goldstein to Perform on the Marimba Lumina
As a part of the South Berkshire Concert Series at Simon's Rock College in Great Barrington, composer and performer Mark Goldstein will play his invented electro-acoustic instrument, the Marimba Lumina, on Saturday, February 16 at 9 p.m. in the college's Kellogg Music Center. He will be accompanied by John Myers, faculty member in music, on guitar.
Based in Menlo Park, CA, percussionist Mark Goldstein is a performer, teacher, consultant and inventor. He plays jazz, classical and world music in various settings, and has carved out a unique career as a music technologist. Goldstein's work is focused on designing electronic musical instruments and studying the problems surrounding their use for all concerned: player, composer, and audience.
Most recently, Goldstein was part of the team that designed and built the Marimba Lumina, an electronic mallet instrument that is played with marimba technique but has unique performance capabilities. Having dreamed about such an instrument for years, he is now exploring the ramifications of playing it, adapting existing mallet literature, arranging transcriptions, and working with composers to create new repertoire.
He has worked at the computer music laboratories of the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford, helped develop digital audio workstations for Studer and Sony, and has been a member of electronic music research teams at Gibson Guitar and Interval Research. In 1999, he created a suite of interactive musical installations for the exhibition "Le Temps, Vites" which was part of the grand reopening of the Pompidou Center in Paris, and he subsequently toured Europe throughout 2000.
Tickets are $20 general admission, $15 seniors, students free, and will be available at the door; for more info call 413-528-7212.
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