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milestone: 500 public performances as a cellist

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milestone: 500 public performances as a cellist

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Solo CD "Strings and Machines" released by EMF

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Solo CD "Strings and Machines" released by EMF

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Taken from Signal To Noise, winter 2002/ issue 24/page 77.

from Signal to Noise, by Dan Warburton, Winter issue 2002

Hugh Livingston
Strings and Machines
EMF CD 017

Don't be misled by those sepia graphics with Victorian-looking cogwheels - the machines in question are computers (hi-tech cover imagery might have been more appropriate?) and the music they create along with cellist Hugh Livingston is pretty intimidating. Mark Danks' "headingsouth" pits live cello against sound processing - the graphics element of the piece unfortunately unavailable in this audio version - in Pd, a signal processing language developed by Miller Puckette (with whom Danks studied at UC San Diego). Trying to figure out exactly what relationships exist between Danks' score and its Pd transformations isn't always easy - behind all the sophisticated gadgetry lies relatively conventional cello writing, executed with great flair by Livingston - much of the piece sounds grizzly, queasy and distorted. The boxy-sounding recording does little justice to Guy Garnett's "Interactions III", but helps bring out the gritty difference tones in Sean Griffin's "Stryx", the most convincing piece on offer here. Griffin's "perverted" drones - Tony Conrad meets Horatiu Radulescu - are quite exhilarating and the technology is perfectly integrated into the musical argument (meaning you don't notice it's there). The closing "Qwfwq" (after Italo Calvino) is a group effort, with Mark Danks and Michael Theodore on hand to maul Livingston's cello improvisations using all manner of transformations. It's like being trapped inside a wardrobe during an earthquake while sounds of someone mercilessly torturing seagulls are fed through trashed loudspeakers right into your inner ear. Definitely should be played non-stop in every dentist's waiting room.

Dan Warburton

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My first sound installation.

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Permanent multichannel computer-controlled sound installation created for Edgemar, Santa Monica, California, Frank Gehry, architect. Composition by Hugh Livingston and Michael Zbyszynski (2005).

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CelloHouse Slavonice "The Old School" 2009

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Hugh Livingston performs CelloHouse, his composition for multiple cellos in multiple rooms, at The Old School, home to the Centre for the Future in Slavonice, Southern Bohemia, Czech Republic.

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'07

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Floating speakers on a lake in Townsend VT. Nocturnal music from around the world (Gregorian chant from the evening services, moonrise Raga, Chopin and the French piano tradition of Nocturnes).

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'08

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Composed and performed by Hugh Livingston at Bridal Veil Power Station in Telluride, Colorado.

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'09

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milestone: 1,000 public performances as a cellist

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milestone: 1,000 public performances as a cellist

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Artist in Residence, Chalk Hill Artists Residency at Warnecke Ranch & Vineyards

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Artist in Residence, Chalk Hill Artists Residency at Warnecke Ranch & Vineyards

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'09 10 30 2010 4 15

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Invisible Shadows: The Late Show Gardens at Cornerstone, Sonoma	

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Invisible Shadows: The Late Show Gardens at Cornerstone, Sonoma	

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'09

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"Invisible Shadows", sound installation by Hugh Livingston, garden by Yoji Sasaki at Cornerstone Gardens

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Multichannel real-time generated sound installation by Hugh Livingston/Livingston Sound. 8 channel spatialization with water from the San Miguel River, Colorado, bamboo instruments, water droplets. Temporary installation created for The Late Show Gardens, September 2009 at Cornerstone, Sonoma California. Permanent installation to be completed October 2009.

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Garden Party: The Late Show Gardens at Cornerstone, Sonoma	

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Garden Party: The Late Show Gardens at Cornerstone, Sonoma	

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'09

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"Garden Party" by Livingston Sound, The Late Show Gardens at Cornerstone

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16-channel sound installation by Hugh Livingston and sculptural installation by Philip Livingston, created for The Late Show Gardens, September 2009, hosted by Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma. An interactive parody of what people talk about at cocktail parties and the psychoacoustic principle known as the 'cocktail party effect'.

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sonoflowers	The Late Show Gardens at Cornerstone, Sonoma	

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sonoflowers	The Late Show Gardens at Cornerstone, Sonoma	

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'09

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Talking Tomato Cages, sound by Hugh Livingston, sculpture by Philip Livingston

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Created for The Late Show Gardens, September 2009, at Cornerstone Gardens, Sonoma. Speakers are mounted in the center of the cone, of colored high-density polyethylene plastic, and placed inside a tomato cage with rebar supports. Each presents a hybrid 'bird' with an instrumental recording edited to align with the bird's vocalizations.

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2010 10 24 Oakland Maker Faire (chairs) 

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2010 10 24 Oakland Maker Faire (chairs) 

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Hidden Creeks & Streams: Hugh Livingston & Damon Smith Duo

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Duo performance in Glen Echo Creek, Oakland

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Please Be Seated: Benches, UC San Diego Conrad Prebys Music Center

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2010 Hidden Creeks & Streams with Ma Jie, pipa 

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2010 Hidden Creeks & Streams with Ma Jie, pipa 

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Hidden Creeks & Streams: Ma Jie/Hugh Livingston duo

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2010 scenes from a lingering garden (v2) Kaiser Rooftop Garden, Oakland, Calif. 

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2010 scenes from a lingering garden (v2) Kaiser Rooftop Garden, Oakland, Calif. 

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2010 Jun 27

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Cellist Hugh Livingston collaborating with Czech musicians, September 2010. Funded by Trust for Mutual Understanding, in cooperation with Telluride Institute, Centre for the Future, Institut Slavonice, and Skolska 28.

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2011 6 3 Lake Merritt Gardens (Birds of Invention) 

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2011 6 3 Lake Merritt Gardens (Birds of Invention) 

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Sound & Sculpture Garden, Sonoma County Museum (Garden Sound Installation: Norma & Evert Person Sound & Sculpture Garden)

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Permanent installation opened Sep 2011. 16-channel, max/msp controlled sound. Composition by Hugh Livingston. Garden Design by Fred Warnecke. Equipment and Installation by PCD Audio-Video System Integration, Santa Rosa.
Installation is audible during museum hours, 11-5pm, closed Mondays. Free with museum admission.
sonomacountymuseum.org

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shot with a Nikon V1 at 400fps and slowed to 30. Processed and filtered to produce 'painterly' effect. Part of the triptych of Oak Elements.
On display Jun-Sep 9 2012 at the Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California.

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shot with a Nikon V1 at 400fps and slowed to 30. Processed and filtered to produce 'painterly' effect. Part of the triptych of Oak Elements.
On display Jun-Sep 9 2012 at the Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California.

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shot with a Nikon V1 at 400fps and slowed to 30. Processed and filtered to produce 'painterly' effect. Part of the triptych of Oak Elements.
On display Jun-Sep 9 2012 at the Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, California.

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2011 8 6 Russian River Triptych Ranchfest at Warnecke 

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2011 8 6 Russian River Triptych Ranchfest at Warnecke 

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Birdcages are filled with imaginary birds, improvising on the classics, riffing through stolen melodies; cuckoos clock and clack and can't quite keep time; underwater bubbles come to the surface, making rhythmic patterns in a field of alien wildflowers; windows frame distant vistas, radiating with yesterday's sound, a granular frog, a repeating river, a Creek chorus of Euphrats, glass sounds floating by. Afterwards you will want to curl up with a good brook.

Sound installations by Hugh Livingston on the knoll overlooking the Russian River at the spectacular Warnecke Ranch and Vineyards. Aug 6, 2011. An attention-raiser for the Chalk Hill Artists Residency.

This is part of work created with the support of the Creative Work Fund, in collaboration with Russian Riverkeeper, and partially sourced while in residence at the Chalk Hill Artist Residency. Text written and read by Fred Euphrat.

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2011 8 16 Prague/Litomerice/Artmill/Califia 

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2011 8 16 Prague/Litomerice/Artmill/Califia 

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Hugh Livingston Cello Performance. Opening of RiverText at Galerie Califia

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2011 Sound & Place: Live Czech Republic 

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2011 Sound & Place: Live Czech Republic 

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Mountain View Cemetery Memorial Garden sound installation

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Mountain View Cemetery Mausoleum Pond installation by Hugh Livingston, October 2008

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"St. Francis" Garden, Piedmont California (2009)

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A permanent 18-channel sound garden in the backyard of a private client. Landscape design-build by Ace Architects.

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"Invisible Shadows", sound installation by Hugh Livingston, garden by Yoji Sasaki at Cornerstone Gardens

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Multichannel real-time generated sound installation by Hugh Livingston/Livingston Sound. 8 channel spatialization with water from the San Miguel River, Colorado, bamboo instruments, water droplets. Temporary installation created for The Late Show Gardens, September 2009 at Cornerstone, Sonoma California. Permanent installation to be completed October 2009.

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2012 Jun 24

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Timelapse video created for the gallery show IMBY: SlaughterhouseSpace, 2012 (no audio track).

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A time lapse video created for the installation IMBY: Sonoma County Museum, January 2013.
(no audio track).

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'10

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Please Be Seated (benches) UC San Diego 

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Please Be Seated (benches) UC San Diego 

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2012

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Please Be Seated: Benches, UC San Diego Conrad Prebys Music Center

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2013 5 1 Califia opening (river closeup) 

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2013 5 1 Califia opening (river closeup) 

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The Pool of 'Bamboo Counterpoint' at Dumbarton Oaks

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The Pool of 'Bamboo Counterpoint' at Dumbarton Oaks

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The Pool of Bamboo Counterpoint (sound installation at Dumbarton Oaks Gardens)

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Dumbarton Oaks Mothers' Day Timelapse: The Pool of Bamboo Counterpoint

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River Text "G" excerpt (This video is silent)

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Installation created for the Sackler Gallery of Asian Art at the Smithsonian (2017-2022)

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Installation created for the Sackler Gallery of Asian Art at the Smithsonian (2017-2022)

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Installation created for the Sackler Gallery of Asian Art at the Smithsonian (2017-2022)

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Installation created for the Sackler Gallery of Asian Art at the Smithsonian (2017-2022)

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String Instrument Technique, Napa Valley College Performing Arts Center Lobby (2017)

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Manual manipulation of the parameters effecting the visualization.

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Reeds of Invention created for Reno Winterlight Fest, downtown Reno NV

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Reeds of Invention created for Reno Winterlight Fest, downtown Reno NV

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Dec '19

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A simulation of port traffic and container contents. For illustrative purposes. Ships are not really that long!

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Hugh Livingston sonic interpretation of musical score by Guillermo Galindo: Unidad 1.78

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Nevada landscape with geographic and geological annotations, real-time generated.

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sonoTour for DTour (Sauk County, Wisconsin)

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sonoTour for DTour (Sauk County, Wisconsin)

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Sep '20

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Reeds of Invention created for Illuminations as part of Healdsburg Voices for the Harmon Guest House, Healdsburg, (Sonoma) Calif.

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Reeds of Invention created for Illuminations as part of Healdsburg Voices for the Harmon Guest House, Healdsburg, (Sonoma) Calif.

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Dec '20