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Current Events
- Upcoming Performance - Measures of Change Concert - Urbana, IL => On Feb. 23 there will be a concert featuring works from the new EMS CD release Measures of Change including my work Pathfinder. The concert will be at 7:30pm in the Music Building Auditorium.
- Upcoming Performance - CMS 33rd Northeast Chapter Conference @ SUNY Fredonia - Fredonia, NY => My work Increment for clarinet and percussion has been selected for performance at this year's CMS Northeast Chapter Conference. The conference takes place March 16-17 and my piece is scheduled for the March 16th Composers Concert at 8pm.
- Upcoming Performance - SEAMUS 2012 National Conference @ Lawrence University - Appleton, WI => My work Dreamcaster for 8-channel electroacoustic music and dance - to be performed by Sandra Paola Hendrix-López has been selected for performance for this years SEAMUS Conference (Feb. 9-11). The schedule will be out soon and I'll update with the date and time of performance.
- Commission and Performance => I won a commission for a new work for orchestra - the U of I Orchestra Composition Competition. The performance is scheduled for the Feb. 29 U of I Orchestra Concert. The commissioned work => Paranoiac-Critical Variations, a work concerned with the implications of Dalí's pananoiac-critical method and perceptual links between variations of musical materials, as well as the themes, mood, and gestures present in several works from Dalí's paranoiac-critical period:The Persistence of Memory, Soft Construction with Boiled Beans, The Disintegration of Persistence of Memory, Metamorphosis of Narcissus, Autumn Cannibalism, and The Sublime Moment.
- CD Release =>There will be a UIUC EMS CD released this fall. The disc will consist mostly of recent works by Studio D and some Studio A users, a stereo version of my work Pathfinder will be included. This release is yet untitled... more info to come. ! ! ! UPDATE ! ! ! => The disc, titled Measures of Change, is here!!!
Past Events
- Performance - IWU New Music Series - Bloomington, IL => On Oct. 27 @ 7:30pm the new stereo version of my work Pathfinder was presented. The program also included works by U of I composers Eric Lund and Roy Magnuson.
- Performance - Sexy Monsters - Urbana, IL => On Sept. 23 @ 5-9pm as part of the Free-Print Fridays / Living Sounds Workshop at Gallery One my work Absolute Zero was presented.
- Presentation - IWU Composition Studio - Bloomington, IL => On Sept. 15 @ 4:00pm I presented a few of my works in a talk on how I approach composition: development of a personal language/process, organization/planning, and inspiration.
- First Teaching Gig! => This fall I will be an Adjunct Instructor of Music at Illinois Wesleyan University teaching courses in electroacoustic music and music theory.
- News => I passed my prelims and I'm now ABD! My final project and dissertation proposals were approved, so now I can get serious about my work on them. My final project, Wintermind, is a work for ensemble (fl., cl., pno., vln., and vc.) and electroacoustic music in three movements with a projected duration of ~17 mins. The working title for my dissertation is "Problems and Current Methodologies in Electroacoustic Music Analysis: Two Analytical Case Studies (Lejaren Hiller's Vocalise and Paul Koonce's Rule III), and Implications for Electro-acoustic Music Analysis on the Compositional Process." I know, it's a mouth-full... I'll keep you posted.
- Performance - UIUC EMS Concert - Urbana, IL => On.
Feb. 2 @ 7:30pmthere was a concert of electroacoustic works by EMS composers. The concert include several multi-channel works, a few works for piano and ea, and my work Dreamcaster for 8-channel electroacoustic music and dance - performed by Sandra Paola Hendrix-López ! ! ! UPDATE ! ! ! => The date was changed for this concert. It was rescheduled for Feb. 9th @ 7:30pm. - Presentation - UIUC Composition Forum - Urbana, IL => On Dec. 7 @ 3:00pm I presented my program MyPic to the comp forum. The presentation included demostrating features, discussing future refinements, and presenting excerpts from a work composed with MyPic.
- Performance - UIUC Composers Concert - Urbana, IL => On Nov. 14 @ 7:30pm percussionist Caleb Herron performed my solo vibraphone work Primarily Sexy. The concert took on the UIUC campus at the Smith Hall Auditorium. This concert was organized by composer/percussionist Ming-ching Chiu.
- Performance - SCI 2010 National Conference - Columbia, SC => On Nov. 12 @ 8:30am percussionist Caleb Herron performed my solo vibraphone work Primarily Sexy at this year's SCI National Conference. The conference took place Nov. 11 - 14 at USC Columbia, hosted by Tayloe Harding, Sonia Jacobsen, and Samuel Douglas.
- Performance – SCI Region V Conference - Rock Island, IL => On Oct. 2 @ 4:30pm percussionist Caleb Herron premiered my solo vibraphone work Primarily Sexy at this year's SCI Region V Conference at Augustana College in Illinois.
- Performance - UIUC New Music Ensemble - Urbana, IL => On Sept. 21 @ 7:30pm in the Krannert Center Great Hall, the UIUC New Music Ensemble premiered my chamber orchestra piece Alchemy of Angels.
- Performance - Devil May Card Duo - Eastern US Tour => The DMC Duo [Ariana Lamon-Anderson - Clarinet, Caleb Herron - Percussion] performed my work Increment (commissioned by Caleb Herron). Performances included Cambridge, MA [June 21, 7:30pm @ the Lilypad], New York, NY [June 23, 8pm @ Papacookie Concert Series], and Duluth, GA [June 27, 3pm @ Chocolate Perks].
- Performance - SEAMUS 2010 National Conference - St. Cloud, MN => My work Pathfinder was selected for performance at the SEAMUS 2010 25th Anniversary National Conference at St. Cloud State University on April 8, 9, and 10.
- Performance - NoiseFloor Festival - Stafford, England => My work Pathfinder was chosen for diffusion in one of the Saturday concerts (1.16) of the NoiseFloor Festival.