Updated 18 March 2025

Intermedia Works

Knowing / Not Knowing

TRAILER

FLiGHT (2012-2016) – Our Beginning Steps Trailer by Ross Karre [11'38"]

Movement I Imagining, II Preparing, III Experiencing, and IV Perspective
String Quartet, A Montage of Texts Assembled by the Composer (pre-recorded and spatialized), centering on human aspirations for flight which span centuries and culture,
Reconfigurable projection modules, Real-time Algorithmic sound processing, Multichannel sound distribution
JACK Quartet
Ross Karre, Visual design, Paul Hembree, Audio design
Recorded speakers: Eva Barnes, Lowell Gaspar, Carla Harting, Jack Mikesell
Robert Castro, Direction

FLiGHT Development Process [5'16"]

george WASHINGTON (2012-2013) Trailer by Ross Karre [4'16"]

Orchestra, 3 Narrators, Video projection,
Real-time sound processing and spatialization
2 Fl (Picc), Al-fl, 2 Ob, Ca, 2 Cl, B-cl, Cbs-cl, 2 Bsn, Cbsn,
4 Hn, 3 Tpt, 2 Tbn, B-tbn, Tba, 3 Perc, Pf, Hp,
Strings in traditional 5 sections
Ross Karre, Videographer, Jaime Oliver, Computer Cues, Josef Kucera, Sound Design

Passage 7: "John Cage – incidents, texts, conversations, and music" (2012) [58'39"]

Intermedia Performance by Roger Reynolds

PASSAGE 9: "Alliances, Realization, Benediction, The Sublime, The Space of Silence, Sharing, The Inexplicable, Anotherworldly Intersection, What Was Needed, Context or Features, Cross-Modality,
Obligation: A Meander" (2012-2013) Trailer [3'45"]

Intermedia Performance
Texts and Narration: Roger Reynolds
Image preparation: Paul Hembree
Recording and editing of texts: Paul Hembree
On screen:
[Tadashi Suzuki’s production of Chekhov’s Ivanov (NHK recorded excerpt), Music by Roger Reynolds],
[MARKed MUSIC (excerpt) performed by Mark Dresser (Contrabass) and
Paul Hembree (Real-time algorithmic transformation)
Audio recording and editing: Michael Ricca
Editing: Ross Karre, Kyle Johnson, and Frankie Martin]

For inquiries regarding PASSAGE presentations, contact Roger Reynolds at C.F. Peters Corp., NY

Passage 10:"Musings on 'Good Lives': Relationships, Sustenance, Aspirations –
Truth, Secrets, Boundaries, Purpose, Flight" (2013-2014) [58'53"] Complete performance

VIEW UCSD-TV COMPLETE VIDEO of PASSAGE 10 by Roger Reynolds
"In this series, eight of UC San Diego's finest teachers and scholars share their pursuit of 'The Good Life'."

Intermedia Performance
Narrated by Roger Reynolds
Montaged words of Reynolds, Lucretius, John Ashbery, Milan Kundera, Richard Wilbur, Emily Dickinson, Roberto Bolaño
Paul Hembree, Technical support, image preparation, text recording, spatialization

For inquiries regarding PASSAGE presentations, contact Roger Reynolds at C.F. Peters Corp., NY

JUSTICE (1999-2001) [49'28"] Complete

Actress, Soprano, Percussion, Multichannel computer sound,
Real-time spatialization, Staging
Text: assembled by the composer from Aeschylus

The video can also be viewed on the Library of Congress Site: