ModLark (Laptop Orchestra) Concert
- When
- Thursday, November 5, 20267:30 PM PSTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
- Where
- Music Building Concert HallOne Washington Square, San José, CA 95192Open in Maps
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About
This event is free and open to the public!
The MODLark (Mobile Device and Laptop Orchestra) is a completely unique musical ensemble that creates music entirely digitally on Mobile Devices and Laptops.
Program
Charlie Cassel Consequence, Absolution, and Change (fixed media) (2026) Cornelius Cardew Treatise (open instrumentation) (1963-1967) Tapasya Suman Cold Stone (2026) ModLark Improvisation (2026)
Program Notes
Consequence, Absolution, and Change (2026) is a piece that imagines what the future might look like if the fanatical pursuit of technological advancement, namely AI, is not halted.
In today's age we often advance technology without regard for how that advancement affects the world. In that pursuit we have begun to end the world, destroying ecosystems and causing unimaginable loss of life. The pursuit of artificial intelligence is no different; massive data centers devour water and consume massive amounts of energy. Furthermore, it even threatens our creativity: AI music and many other forms of AI put artists out of work, threatening to make our way of life impossible.
This idea of relentless pursuit is unsustainable, environmentally, ethically and creatively. This piece, Consequence, Absolution, and Change, imagines what the future might look like if this pursuit does not end. The piece is separated into three sections, with each imagining a different moment in this imagined future.
Consequence represents now, and the near future as the world is withering at our hands.
Absolution represents the inevitable culmination of our greed as we destroy the world around us.
Change represents how regardless of our actions, the world will remain and recover, with time.
–Charlie J. Cassel
Treatise (2026) Written between 1963 and 1967, Cornelius Cardew’s Treatise is a 193-page graphic score composed of lines, geometric forms, symbols, and abstract visual structures rather than conventional musical notation. Its title and design reflect Cardew’s engagement with Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and the score can be understood simultaneously as a musical notation, a visual construction, and a system of signs open to interpretation.