The premiere of the electronic work
CITY WAVES, by Gheorghe Costinescu, an audio collage of electronic and concrete
sounds will take place at the Technische Universität
Berlin on Friday, November 8.
The original version of the work was completed in 1985 at Lehman
College of the City University of New York, in the electronic music studio
designed by the composer. He was assisted by students, using mostly analog equipment. For the final version completed in 2013, the first version
was digitized, revised, and re-mixed at the Computer Music Center of Columbia
University.
The aim was to incorporate sounds and audio events the
composer has experienced from his arrival in New York City in 1969 up to the time of
the work’s completion.
The
work is available – In a Stereo version: as a two-track audio file or a CD playable
on a regular sound system and– As a four-track audio file, playable from a computer, connected through
an audio interface to four loudspeakers
