“Utopia” by Augusto Meijer was presented at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival on the 2nd show on Saturday, January 10, 2015.
Pieces by Brian Eno, Pauline Oliveros, and Cliff Caruthers were also on the program.

from sfsound.org/tape/

America’s only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features three distinct evenings of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 32 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system consisting of 16 high-end loudspeakers while the audience is seated in complete darkness. It’s a unique opportunity to experience music forming – literally – around you.

The 2015 Festival features two concerts showcasing the entire range of the “fixed media” artform; a Saturday late-night concert of longer, psychedelic, and ambient tape pieces (including the premiere of the 17-minute, 16-channel “full” version of BRIAN ENO’S Golden); and a concert featuring SFSOUNDGROUP musicians performing electroacoustic works by French and American composers.

The Saturday 11pm concert features a premiere by BRIAN ENO. In 2007, Eno composed a 16-channel piece, Golden for our festival. He created multiple versions of various lengths, and the “full” 17-minute version will have its public debut on this program. In addition, we present a rare performance of PAULINE OLIVEROS’S The Day I Disconnected The Erase Head And Forgot To Reconnect It – one of her classic analog synth tape pieces from 1966 that predates the Bay Area Noise scene by decades. The program also includes a new work by dutch composer AUGUSTO MEIJER and a sonic landscape composition by San Francisco Tape Music Collective’s own CLIFF CARUTHERS.

“Utopia” is an acousmatic composition journey that presents a brief momentum of colorfully structured sound fields, with the intention to boost an audience’s imagination into a temporary utopian mindset.

Prior to the creation of “Utopia” there have been a series of sound creation experiments. These experiments primarily involved “explorations” in the creation of complex sound fields. For example, a simplistic sound phrase is processed in such a structured way that it becomes a complex, layered sound field. Various relating sound fields have been generated this way, using similar sound sources. “Utopia” was created by organizing these resulting sound fields poetically.

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Utopia
Composer: Augusto Meijer

Commissioned by:
duo Niek Kleinjan – Tom Wolfs
Schreck Ensemble

This project is supported by the Performing Arts Fund NL.

Tom Wolfs (clarinet) and Niek KleinJan (percussion) performed a new concert program at the Herman van Veen Arts Center in Soest, the Netherlands.

They also premiered a new work by Augusto Meijer: an experimental improvisation piece for fixed media playback and live instruments, “Utopia”.

Sunday March 2nd, 2014

The Hypercube installation by Jaap van den Elzen & Augusto Meijer in collaboration with Oddstream was programmed at “Festival Wonderstroom” 2013.

“Structures” (2012, Augusto Meijer) is programmed during the PNEM Sound Art Festival 2013 in Uden.

“On November 16th and 17th 2013, Platform New Experimental Music organizes the third international PNEM Sound Art Festival 2013 with live video and audio performances by artists from around the globe.
The organizers hope this event will be an international platform for the development and implementation of new experimental music and sound art.”

http://www.soundartfestival.nl/Program.html

INTERFERENCE 2013: EVILUTION?
ATELIER VAN LIESHOUT – STARTEL – LOEK GROOTJANS – AFTERLIGHT – JELLE DE GRAAF – INA SMITS & VICTOR ENGBERS – SIMON KENTGENS – JEROEN KUSTER – SATELLIETGROEP – EDDIE THE EAGLE MUSEUM – AUGUSTO MEIJER – GERARD JAGERS OP AKKERHUIS – CHRIS BUSKENS

Interference 2013: An event where art and science meet. What happens if evolution takes the wrong turn? This question is raised by  Interference with their guiding theme “Evilution”. The perfect location for this project was found in a place that will be completely transformed in the future: the “Mammoetterrein” (industry yard) Breda.

“Decimation” is a sound sculpture by Augusto Meijer, which was specifically created for Interference 2013: Evilution?
He outlines a digitized world which has surpassed humanity. The work raises an interesting question: how does an abandoned world of completed digitization sound like?