Big lake mapped in music
If you love the view of Lake Coeur d’Alene, listen to this.
The Coeur d’Alene Symphony audience will be treated to an outdoor Inland Northwest musical and visual experience while comfortably seated indoors during the Regional Talent Extravaganza on Friday, 7:30 p.m., at the North Idaho College Boswell Hall.
The evening will include performances by talented young artists as well as a breath of fresh air called “Radiant Peaks,” a nine-minute live symphony production that incorporates 109 projected images of the region’s landscapes, ranging from Lake Coeur d’Alene to the Salmo-Priest Wilderness.
The images were made last year by landscape photographer Jeff Jones. The music was composed by Eastern Washington University music professor Jonathan Middleton, who literally worked from the ground up.
“In my creative process,” Middleton explained, “I used my USGS topographical map to get altitude readings for mountain ranges that begin at Mineral Ridge and follow a virtual path to Red Hog and then Blossom Mountain.
“The topographical numbers were fed into my program (check it out at http://music algorithms.ewu.edu), which generates melodies that I used for the composition. The profiles of the mountain ranges can be heard, or better yet, experienced through sound.”
Jones is displaying 21 of the images in the Boswell Gallery through March 29.
Concert tickets: NIC Box Office, (208) 769-7780.