HARVARD UNIVERSITY STUDIO FOR ELECTROACOUSTIC COMPOSITION and Harvard University Department of Music present two nights of HYDRA. Our spring loudspeaker diffusion concerts will take place on Saturday May 11th and Sunday May 12th. Each evening one concert will be presented to the public.

Spring HYDRA 2019 will showcase works composed by students of Music 167: Introduction to Electroacoustic Music and Music 179: Improvisation with Live Electronics. Hans Tutschku will premiere a new work for piano and electronics on Saturday evening. We will also present a work by Yvette Jackson, who will be joining the Music Dept. faculty next semester. 

Through the course of the semester Music 179 has collaborated with two acclaimed improvisers and new music specialists. Clarinetist Rane Moore and percussionist Jeff Means will join HYDRA both nights to premiere student works featuring improvisation and real-time electronics processing.

Doors open @ 7:40 PM with concerts starting promptly at 8:00 PM. There is limited availability in the most desired listening positions. All seating is first come, first served. Concerts will take place at Harvard University Department of Music in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall. The Music Dept. is in close proximity to Harvard MBTA Bus and Red Line subway stops, just behind the Science Center Plaza. Our address is 3 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA 02138 and can be found on Google Maps.

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About HUSEAC: The Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC) is celebrating 50 years of electroacoustic composition at Harvard. HUSEAC is home to HYDRA, our forty channel loudspeaker diffusion system, designed for performance of electronic works and tape musics. All HYDRA concerts are free and open to the public. Join us for a moment in our studio's sonic history.

More information can be found at: https://huseac.fas.harvard.edu
Watch HYDRA 2019, a short film at: https://vimeo.com/268101580