Wesleyan’s Toneburst Laptop Ensemble will play electronic works by Paula Matthusen, Doug Van Nort, and Wil Smith in Brooklyn on Sunday night
The (OA) Can Factory
232 Third St. at Third Ave., ground floor
Sunday, February 17, free, 9:30
www.share.dj
The Toneburst Laptop Ensemble (TLE) makes its public debut Sunday night, playing at SHARE at the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus. Formed at Wesleyan under the directorship of composer Paula Matthusen, assistant professor of music at the Connecticut institution, TLE performs specially commissioned works in addition to pieces from the electronic music canon. Consisting of Ian Anderson, Ashlin Aronin, Tobias Butler, Dylan Bostick, Nathan Friedman, Jessie Marino, and Alex Lough, the new ensemble will perform three works in Brooklyn: Matthusen’s 2007 electroacoustic “lathyrus”; a selection from Albany-based experimental musician and sonic researcher Doug Van Nort’s “Genetic Orchestra” series; and Brooklyn-based composer and performer Wil Smith’s “Static Line,” which was written for Jody Redhage and the 2009 New Directions Cello Festival. The free TLE performance, which also includes live video samples and manipulation developed by Lough using an original patch he created in the Jitter programming environment, is part of SHARE’s mission to “blur the boundary between its participants and spectators, [engaging] all in a continually changing dialog on art and culture.”