<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(152,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">MICRO RITMIA CONCERT<br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">Hosted by the MIT-PDA </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">The
 band MICRO RITMIA from Mexico is in town and we could convince them to 
play an exclusive show at MIT. Ernesto and his band will perform their 
music in the Gillian Auditorium (66-110) and will mesmerize you with 
their high speed percussions, their multi rhythmic guitar and bass 
lines, and their custom made instruments. This will  push the borders of
 modern music to a new border of speed and complexity.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">Date and Time </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">Tuesday, November 15, 5pm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">Location</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg"> </span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">66-110 (Gilliland Auditorium)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">Micro-Ritmia is Ernesto Martinez’s compositional project, which he developed over the past twenty years and is based on sync networks to pre-assist composition and live performance. His system accelerates live comp</span><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg">osition and improvisation into the fields of hypervelocity; collective virtuosity goes where no individual skills can go. Through guitars, basses, marimbas, percussion, voice and tailor-made instruments, Micro-Ritmia allows musicians to reach performance speeds previously impossible for humans and usually only attainable by computers.This music is based on a mathematical accuracy in the millisecond range; for the audience, it produces an “instant error” perception, making them oscillate continuously between credibility and disbelief. Wrapped in a deeply stimulating experience, the audience interprets what is happening either as an error or as an act of control. From the compositional perspective, error works as a highly powerful generator that enriches instant composition. In a real-time decision-making process, the eye of the director-composer curates live music towards evocative and intense textures. The latest implementation of Micro-ritmia’s system consists on fracturing the ensemble in two parts that collapse or integrate each other, moving from simplicity to complexity, from chaos to rhythmic harmony.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:14.6667px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline" class="gmail_msg"><br></span></p></div>