Peter Traub premieres his new installation, Solera: for sound, site, and time :: October 26 – November 6, 2009 :: Ruffin Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA. :: Talk: November 2, 2009; 2:00 p.m.

Composer and installation artist Peter Traub will premiere his new public sound work in the Ruffin Hall main lobby at the University of Virginia. Solera is an ongoing installation that will run for 24 hours a day, accumulating and playing back the sonic activities and characteristics of the installation space – people passing through, conversations, machines, and music. Over the two weeks of the installation, the incidental sounds of each day and the acoustic resonances of the space will be layered upon each other, creating an aural memory of the space that will grow and change over time. Multiple visits to the piece are suggested.

Traub will give a free gallery talk on the piece on Monday, November 2nd at 5pm in the main lobby of Ruffin Hall. As the talk will take place in the space of the installation, it will also become part of the piece.

Peter Traub is a composer, installation, and network artist currently completing his dissertation in the Composition Ph.D. program at UVA. He received his Master’s in Electro-Acoustic Music from Dartmouth College in 1999. He has composed numerous works of electronic music and several internet-based and physical sound installations. Between Dartmouth and UVA, Peter lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for five years working as a software engineer at various startups, and moonlighted as a visiting researcher/composer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University. His dissertation is a series of performances and installations exploring sound in physical and imaginary space. His first piece in the dissertation series, the online installation ItSpace, was a commission of Networked_Music Review and featured on NPR’s “Day to Day” in 2008. In his spare time Peter also contributes interviews and posts to the Networked_Music_Review.