tranSpectra premieries STREDICI at Open Ears festival of music and sound

In concert 7:30 PM
Tuesday, April, 28, 2009
The Registry Theatre
122 Frederick Street, Kitchener

The  STREDICI is a long stringed instrument developed under the direction of David Lieberman challenging the relationship of the musician to the tradition of the instrument as prosthetic or a device which can be embraced by the musician by proposing that the instrument is now of a size and scope to engage the musician at an architectural scale in that the vessel can accomodate and contain the player(s). It is the first in a series of proposed innovations in the design and construction of instruments and spaces of both aurality and the production of sound. The STREDICI has been commissioned by tranSpectra, a collective of innovative artists based on an alternative tuning system, the Bohlen - Pierce scale. Bohlen- Pierce is a harmonic, non-octave scale; its thirteen tone steps fill the framework of the twelth(3:1).   It is meant to permit creation and performance of harmonic music in tonal realtions that are different from traditional scales. The scale can be derived from a purely mathematical approach in keeping with the work of Pythagoras.  The instrument as currently constructed is a first phase prototype developed with the assistance of Daniels graduates April Wong and Fiona Lim Tung and fabricated by Johnny Bui.