On New Year's Eve, Times Square 2000, the celebration at New
York's Times Square, featured a Virtual Orchestra from Peabody
performing "Ascent of time"
New York's Times Square welcomed the New Year with the world
premiere of "Ascent of Time," by Peabody composer Charles Byungkyu Kim,
performed by Lightning Virtuoso Forrest Tobey, with a Virtual Orchestra
developed at Peabody. Both Kim and Tobey are Artists-In-Residence at the
Computer Music Department.
The Times Square production team
Back row, from the
left: Geoffrey Wright, Forrest Tobey, David Wetzel, Charles Kim. Front
row: Jer Welter, Gustavo de Andrade, Larry Schugam and Sumi Yun.
Photo courtesy The Gazette
Forrest Tobey
Photo by Craig Terkowitz
Courtesy Johns Hopkins Magazine
From left to right:
Charles Kim, Forrest Tobey, David
Wetzel
Photo by Craig Terkowitz
Courtesy Johns Hopkins Magazine
Friday, 31 December 1999
New Year's Eve Concert
Times Square
New York City
11:59pm
New York's Times Square welcomed the New Year with the world premiere of "Ascent of Time," by Peabody composer Charles Byungkyu Kim, performed by Lightning Virtuoso Forrest Tobey, with a Virtual Orchestra developed at Peabody. Both Kim and Tobey are Artists-In-Residence at the Computer Music Department.
Back row, from the left: Geoffrey Wright, Forrest Tobey, David Wetzel, Charles Kim. Front row: Jer Welter, Gustavo de Andrade, Larry Schugam and Sumi Yun.
Photo courtesy The Gazette
Photo by Craig Terkowitz
Courtesy Johns Hopkins Magazine
From left to right:
Charles Kim, Forrest Tobey, David Wetzel
Photo by Craig Terkowitz Courtesy Johns Hopkins Magazine
Peabody Institute Press Release
Peabody Institute Press Release (Korean language version)
Times Square 2000 Press Release (PDF file)
Johns Hopkins University News Release
Buchla and Associates
"Computer-driven 'virtual' orchestra to ring in 2000"
Science Blog, December 1999
Making Millennium Music
The Johns Hopkins Gazette, 8 November 1999