david bithell (b.
1976), currently an Assistant Professor of Composition Studies at the
University of North Texas, is devoted to the exploration
of the intersection between experimental music and theater. His
use of live performance, video, staging, music technology, and
improvisation create abstract
narratives that balance between the tragic and comic.
He has performed his compositions throughout the United States, Europe,
and Asia in a variety of settings. Recently, his
composition "The President Has His Photograph Taken" for solo trumpet,
electronics, and video was ...read more...
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image from The
President Has His Photograph Taken (2005)
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upcoming events
- Out of the Loop Festival - Addison Watertower Theater -
Thursday, March 11, 2009 (7:30pm) + Saturday, March 13, 2010 (5pm)
- The Liminal Surface - residency
and premiere of "Paraquay" commissioned by the Ammerman Center for Arts
and Technology - 12th Annual Symposium on Arts and Technology -
Connecticut College - February 28 - March 6, 2010
- Solo Show - Experimental Music Theater - Dallas Museum of
Art - February 19, 2010
- New Works by David Bithell and Christina Rusnak - Dallas
Contemporary - January 28, 2010
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recent projects
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- Temporary Structures - instrumental
composition for oboe, clarinet, alto saxophone, viola, cello, and piano
- Spring 2009
- Liminal Surface - interactive
tabletop performance environment - ongoing developments in
collaboration with Ali
Momeni (in progress)
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works list...
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news and events
- Table Setting / Vooruit -
New version of Table Setting created with Ali Momeni - premiered at Ghent
International Film Festival - Almost Cinema - Vooruit Art Center -
Ghent, Belgium - October 14, 2008
- Physical Computing for Music Theater
- Workshop taught by David Bithell and Ali Momeni - HISK/KASK Workshops
- Vooruit Art Center - Ghent, Belgium - October 13-15, 2008 (tutorials
can be found here)
- A proposal that I developed
for a new research cluster at the University of North Texas, the Initiative
for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts (iARTA),
has been approved for funding. Among immediate goals will be to
hire new faculty members to strengthen the interdisciplinary arts and
technology at UNT.
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