This excerpt from Todd and Luke's ATLAS BlackBox performance places the audience in the midst of a vibrant crossroad at Union Square in New York City.
Todd's use of layered effects produces an interesting accompaniment, lacking the common repetitive loop. The music compliments the pulsing streaks of light as autos and people alternate their access to the intersection, but the slow tempo of the actual Hendrix track (Luke Dubois has stretched it out) creates an alternate and mildly bewildering juxtaposition with the video.
Visiting Artists 2007 - 2008
January 2008 - Todd Reynolds and Luke DuBois Residency
In 2007 Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois joined CU students and faculty in a one week residency exploring the intersection of music, video, performance, and technology.
Todd's master classes included "Sound Painting" with CU's jazz ensemble II, a discussion and demonstration of his solo violin work to the string department's students and faculty, a workshop in his use of the performance software, "Ableton," and a master class in improvisation for both jazz and classical students at CU.
Luke's activities included an appearance at CU's "Visiting Filmmaker Seminar" in the Film Studies department. Luke gave intensive seminars in "Jitter," a real-time video performance software he co-authored as part of Cycling '74. Giving both introductory and advanced seminars, Luke also coached students using MAX and Jitter in their own projects.
The residency culminated in a captivating and memorable performance in CU's Black Box theatre in the ATLAS building.
Todd Reynolds
Todd Reynolds (NYC, NY), composer, conductor, arranger and violinist, is a longtime member of Bang On A Can, Steve Reich and Musicians and Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project . His commitment to genre-bending and technology-driven innovation in music has produced innumerable collaborations 
with artists that regularly cross musical and disciplinary boundaries, regularly placing him in venues from clubs to concert halls around the world.
A forerunner in the expansion of the violin beyond its classical and 'wood-bound' tradition, Reynolds electrifies in concert, weaves together composed and improvised segments, and makes use of computer technology and digital loops to sculpt his sounds in real time, seamlessly integrating minimalist, pop, Jazz, Indian, African, Celtic and indigenous folk musics into his own sonic blend. As a cross-genre improviser and collaborator, he has appeared and/or recorded with such artists as Anthony Braxton, Uri Caine, John Cale, Steve Coleman, Joe Jackson, Dave Liebman, Yo-Yo Ma, Graham Nash, Greg Osby, Steve Reich, Marcus Roberts and Todd Rundgren, and has commissioned and premiered countless numbers of new works by America's most compelling composers, including John King, Phil Kline, Michael Gordon, Neil Rolnick, Julia Wolfe, David Lang, Evan Ziporyn and Randall Wolff. His interdisciplinary work includes ongoing collaborations with SoundPainter Walter Thompson as well as media artists Bill Morrison and Luke DuBois and sound artist Jody Elff.
Luke DuBois
R. Luke DuBois is a composer, performer, video artist, and programmer living in New York City. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University
and teaches interactive sound and video performance at Columbia's Computer Music Center and at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University.
He has collaborated on interactive performance, installation, and music production work with many artists and organizations including Toni Dove, Matthew Ritchie, Todd Reynolds, Michael Joaquin Grey, Elliott Sharp, Michael Gordon, Bang on a Can, Engine27, Harvestworks, and LEMUR, and is the director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra for its 2007 season. He is a co-author of Jitter, a software suite developed by Cycling'74 for real-time manipulation of matrix data. His music (with or without his band, the Freight Elevator Quartet), is available on Caipirinha/Sire, Cycling'74, and Cantaloupe music, and his artwork is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City.
April 2007 - Spooky Actions
Spooky Actions is a New York based jazz and new-music ensemble whose diverse recordings include the music of 20th century composer Anton Webern, interpretations of Native American music, and most recently, early music from the 2nd century BC through the 1500's. Their unique and compelling sound is being met with critical acclaim and widespread interest.
The name Spooky Actions is derived from a comment by Albert Einstein, in which he noted that certain seemingly unrelated objects could nevertheless exert a powerful influence upon each other. He called these relationships "spooky actions at a distance." Spooky Actions, the band, certainly personifies this concept, showing how vivid and accessible improvisations can be derived from music that is often thought of as "etched in stone."
