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Anthony Brandt: Diabelli 200
Featuring: Yvonne Chen, piano
Tyler Martin, flute
Maiko Sasaki, bass clarinet
Craig Hauschildt, percussion
Jacob Schaefer, violin
Max Geissler, cello

The University of Houston BRAIN Center, Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, director
Badie Khaleghian, projections

"Diabelli 200" is a set of variations on the same theme as Beethoven's "Diabelli Variations" published in 1823. Pianist Yvonne Chen and conductor Molly Turner are wearing portable EEG caps., monitored by a team of neuro-engineers from the University of Houston BRAIN Center as they rehearsed and performed. The neuro-team is studying changes within each brain, as well as the neural synchrony between the performers. Composer Badie Khaleghian's visual projections are based on the real-time EEG data: the visualizations begin as more straight-forward representations of the data; as the musical variations get more distant from Diabelli's theme, Khaleghian's visualizations get further removed from the EEG readings.

Commissioned by Performing Arts Houston and premiered by Musiqa on Performing Arts Houston's "New/Now" concerts, February 24 and 25, 2023