Jeffrey Treviño

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I think about composition in a way that emphasizes my specific role in a social process of music-making. This leads to a superficial paradox in which I adopt a vocabulary that seems to describe composition as a hermetic activity, as an act of production deracinated from any social system: I describe the products of my labor as "notations," not "compositions" or "works." Why? Because this seemingly trivial distinction is elemental to my creative philosophy. I embrace and celebrate through my work an ontology of music that is contingent upon social experience, that is is never culminated, and that has at its core the dilemmas of technological mediation, symbolic interpretation, and human communication between different consciousnesses. My job as a composer is to invite others into a collaborative relationship in which everybody has a primary role in the creative act.

Hence the superficial paradox. When I compose, I do not make music; I consider, predict, and simulate music, and I make a notation. After this, someone with a technology for making sound, in collaboration with someone who attends to the sound as it is made, makes music.

Here is a list of my notations, including a history of performances with them:

Solo + Chamber Notations

Forty-Two Statcoulombs (8:30) for string quartet (2006)
• Commissioned by the Arditti String Quartet.
• (February, 2007) The Arditti String Quartet; recording session, Warren Lecture Hall Recording Studio A; La Jolla, California.
• (August, 2007) Ensemble SurPlus; concert, Akademie Schloss Solitude International Composers Masterclass; Stuttgart, Germany.

Mexican Apple Soda Paraphrase (Consumer Affect Simulation I.1) (3:00-5:00) for contrabass and loudspeaker (2006)
• (October 25, 2006) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; UCSD Graduate Performers Forum Concert; UCSD.
• (October 30, 2006) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; concert, Symphony Space; New York City, New York.
• (August, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, Isabella’s; Dubuque, Iowa.
• (September 1, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, Hotcakes Gallery; Madison, Wisconsin.
• (September 4, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, The Hilton, Springfield; Springfield, Illinois.
• (September 7, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, Canterbury House; Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• (September 8, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, Bohemian National Home; Detroit, Michigan.
• (September 11, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III contrabass; solo recital, Café Bourbon; Columbus, Ohio.
• (September 12, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III contrabass; solo recital; Youngstown, Ohio.
• (September 13, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III contrabass; solo recital, Towson University; Youngstown, Ohio.
• (October 7, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III contrabass; solo recital, Roulette; New York City, New York.

Mexican Apple Soda (Consumer Affect Simulation I) (17:00) for contrabass and chamber ensemble (2006)
• (October, 2006) Ross Karre, conductor; James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; William Fried, B3 organ; Christopher Otto, violin; Reiko Manabe, flutes; Fiona Chatwin, voice; Emily Dufour, cello; Colin McAllister, electric guitar; Jim Pringle, bass trombone; Gregory Stuart, percussion (all doubling crackleboxes); jury evaluation, Warren Lecture Hall Recording Studio A; La Jolla, California
• (February, 2007) Jeffrey Treviño, conductor; James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; Carolyn Chen, B3 organ; Kimberly Empeno, violin; Reiko Manabe, flutes; Adrian Coburn, voice; Emily Dufour, cello; Colin McAllister, electric guitar; Tucker Dulin, bass trombone; Gregory Stuart, percussion (all doubling crackleboxes); contrabass performance masters recital, Mandeville Recital Hall; La Jolla, California.

Zoetropes II (8:17) for solo percussion and synchronized video (2006)
• (May 26, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; Reel Loud film festival; Goleta, California.
• (May 27, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, University of California, Santa Cruz; Santa Cruz, California.
• (May 28, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics; Palo Alto, California.
• (June 11, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Erickson Hall; La Jolla, California.
• (July 7, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Brooklyn Fireproof; Brooklyn, New York.

Unit for Convenience and Better Living 003 (2:45) for Bb Bass Clarinet (2006)
• Commissioned by Anthony Burr (Speculum Musicae).
• (April, 2006) Anthony Burr, bass clarinet; recital, Warren Lecture Hall Recording Studio A; La Jolla, California.
• (November, 2007) Gareth Davis, bass clarinet; recital, Visiones Sonoras Festival; The Mexican Center for Music and the Sonic Arts; Morelia, Mexico.

Zoetropes (11:00) for Bb bass clarinet, percussion, and cello (2005)
• (January, 2006) Steve Schick, conductor; Bob Zelickman, bass clarinet; Emily Dufour, cello; Justin Dehart, percussion; UCSD composition program jury evaluation, Warren Lecture Hall Recording Studio A; La Jolla, California.

Binary Experiment for James Tenney (7:30) for four contrabasses (2005)
• (Winter, 2007) the UCSD Bass Ensemble (Mark Dresser, contrabass; Jeff Denson, contrabass; James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; Han Han Cho, contrabass;); Graduate Performers’ Forum Concert, Mandeville Recital Hall; La Jolla, California.

Binary Experiment for James Tenney (7:30) for contrabass and loudspeaker (2007)
• (August, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, Isabella’s; Dubuque, Iowa.
• (September 1, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, Hotcakes Gallery; Madison, Wisconsin.
• (September 4, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, The Hilton, Springfield; Springfield, Illinois.
• (September 7, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, Canterbury House; Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• (September 8, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III, contrabass; solo recital, Bohemian National Home; Detroit, Michigan.
• (September 11, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III contrabass; solo recital, Café Bourbon; Columbus, Ohio.
• (September 12, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III contrabass; solo recital; Youngstown, Ohio.
• (September 13, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III contrabass; solo recital, Towson University; Youngstown, Ohio.
• (October 7, 2007) James Ilgenfritz, III contrabass; solo recital, Roulette; New York City, New York.

Substitute Judgment (4:30) for one percussionist and optional integrated/synchronized video (Ross Karre’s Metal Catalogue) (2005)
• (January 15, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; concert, University of California at Santa Barbara’s Music and the Moving Image conference; Goleta, California.
• (February, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Mandeville Recital Hall; La Jolla, California.
• (March, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, the Museum of Making Music; Carlsbad, California.
• (May 13, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; concert, UCSD Spring Festival of Contemporary Music; La Jolla, California.
• (May 26, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; Reel Loud film festival; Goleta, California.
• (May 27, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, University of California, Santa Cruz Department of Music; Santa Cruz, California.
• (May 28, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics; Palo Alto, California.
• (June 6, 2006) Tony Oliver, percussion; recital, Christ and St. Stephen’s Church (sponsored by the Society for the Chromatic Arts); New York City, New York.
• (June 11, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Erickson Hall; La Jolla, California.
• (July 5, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, the Issue Project Room; New York City, New York.
• (July 6, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Monkeytown; New York City, New York.
• (July 7, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Brooklyn Fireproof; Brooklyn, New York.
• (July 11, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; recital, Oberlin Conservatory of Music’s Warner Concert Hall; Oberlin, Ohio.
• (Nov 10, 2006) Ross Karre, percussion and video; concert, the 2006 International Computer Music Conference (hosted by Tulane University); New Orleans, Louisiana.
• (August, 2007) Ross Karre, percussion and video; digital art gallery performances, International Conference of the ACM SIGGRAPH (the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques); San Diego, California.
• (November 7, 2007) Ross Karre, percussion and video; concert, Seoul International Computer Music Festival; Seoul, South Korea.

Score Four (Dance Score) (12:00) for clarinet, piano, misaligned wax cylinder phonograph, poured water, violin, and viola (2005)
• Commissioned by the Stanford University Department of Dance.
• (Spring, 2005) Carolyn Chen, clarinet; Jeffrey Treviño, piano and wax cylinder phonograph; Elizabeth Donald, violin and water; Mathew Czinger, viola and water; concert, “Music and Dance By Chance,” in affiliation with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Stanford residency; Palo Alto, California.

Line Through a Blue Man’s Heart (9:00) for woodwind quintet (2005)
 • Commissioned by the Stanford Woodwind Quintet
• (Winter, 2004) the Stanford Woodwind Quintet; concert, Wet Ink Society Concert; Palo Alto, California.

Coming & Going (5:10) for solo flute (2004)
• (Winter, 2004) Grace Leslie, flute; Wet Ink Society concert.
• (Spring, 2005) Grace Leslie, flute; Stanford Undergraduate Music graduation commencement ceremony, Campbell Recital Hall; Palo Alto, California.

Magic Box (cartoon score) (3:00) for one piano (2004)
• Commissioned by the U.C. Berkeley Graduate Program in Media Studies.
• (Spring, 2004) Jeffrey Treviño, piano; premiered as recorded, non-diegetic soundtrack to the animated film, Magic Box, at the Berkeley student film festival; Berkeley, California.

Melody’s Flight (cartoon score) (3:00) for chamber orchestra (2004)
• Commissioned by the U.C. Berkeley Graduate Program in Media Studies.
• (Spring, 2004) the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, premiered as recorded, non-diegetic soundtrack to the animated film, Melody’s Flight, at the Berkeley student film festival; Berkeley, California.
Out of Order (cartoon score) (3:47) for chamber orchestra (2004)
• Commissioned by the U.C. Berkeley Graduate Program in Media Studies.
• (Spring, 2004) the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, premiered as recorded, non-diegetic soundtrack to the animated film, Out of Order, at the Berkeley student film festival; Berkeley, California.

Eight Legs Each (5:44) for amplified tuba and two loudspeakers (2004)
• (Fall, 2004) Jeffrey Treviño, amplified tuba; concert, the International Computer Music Conference; Miami, Florida.
• (Fall, 2004) Jeffrey Treviño, amplified tuba; the New Western Electro-Acoustic Music Festival; Portland, Oregon and San Diego, California.

Two Silent Scenes for The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (12:00) for one piano and loosely synchronized silent film (2003)
• Commissioned by the Stanford Humanities Center.
• (Spring, 2003) Jeffrey Treviño, piano, in live accompaniment to the film; recital and discussion, Stanford Humanities Center conference, Borrowed Music in Film.

Orchestrations

Entr’acte (E. Satie, 1924) (22:00) for two flutes, F tuba, percussion, piano, cello, and contrabass (2005)
• Commissioned by the University of California at Santa Barbara’s Music and the Moving Image conference.
• Originally a silent film score composed and orchestrated for full orchestra.
• (January 15, 2006) Tomato Alert (silent film accompaniment ensemble, assembled by Treviño for this performance): Aaron Helgeson, flute; Grace Leslie, flute; Ross Karre, percussion; William Fried, piano; Emily Dufour, cello; James Ilgenfritz, contrabass; Jeffrey Treviño, conductor; concert, University of California at Santa Barbara’s Music and the Moving Image conference; Goleta, California.

Electronic Works — two-loudspeaker playback from compact disc

Dogfight Shuffle (Cartoon Score) (1:02) (2004)
• Commissioned by the U.C. Berkeley Graduate Program in Media Studies.
• U.C. Berkeley Student Film Festival, 2004; Berkeley, California.

Nostalgia (Cartoon Score) (1:00) (2004)
• Commissioned by the U.C. Berkeley Graduate Program in Media Studies.
• U.C. Berkeley Student Film Festival, 2004; Berkeley, California.

Ping (score for eight-minute documentary, Spotters, directed by Davina Pardo and Katherine Leggett) (3:00) (2004)
• Commissioned by the Stanford University Masters Program in Documentary Film.
• San Francisco's Documentary Film Festival, 2005; San Francisco, California.
• Marin County Festival of Short Film and Video, 2004; San Rafael, California.
• Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2004; Providence, Rhode Island.
• Real to Reel Film and Video Festival, 2004; Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
• Oakland International Film Festival, 2004; Oakland, California.
• True/False Film Festival 2005; Columbia, Missouri.
• Wisconsin Film Festival, 2005; Madison, Wisconsin.
• Cantor Arts Festival, Stanford University, 2004; Palo Alto, California.

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