Current Projects
- Composition:
- Shard for flute and electroacoustic music (for Francesca Leo)
- Shapshifter for chamber ensemble (8) (for Chamber Cartel)
- Research:
- Ongoing refinements to MyPic and my algorithmic process
- Composing with MIR feedback
- Algorithmic manipulation of video and live reactive animation
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Current Events/News/Updates
- Performance - BSU New Music Ensemble => I played Tenor Recorder with the NME in a performance of James Tenney's Sneezles. - 12.9.2015.
- Performance - BSU EM|Two Concert => My piece Absolute Zero was presented and I performed with the BSU Laptop Ensemble [Laptop and Tenor Recorder]. - 11.16.2015.
- Performance - Studio 300 Festival => My piece Cicadoidea Perspective for clarinet and electroacoustic music was selected for performance at this years festival. Yi-Wen Chen did an outstanding job on clarinet! Also...
- Performance - BSU EM|One Concert => My piece Contrapture was played, but due to technical craziness with MOTU hardware, it was on the stereo with video version. - 9.22.2015.
- Presentation - BSU Composition Seminar => I presented my music for the comp seminar - talked about the methods/madness of two of my works: Paranoiac-Critical Variations and Pathfinder. - 9.2.2015.
- News - New Job => I accepted an Assistant Professor of Music Composition and Theory position (one year contract) at Ball State University. I'll be teaching intro to computer music, electronic music history, and comp lessons (acoustic and electroacoustic) in the fall.
- News - Website rebuild => Besides being a composer, I'm also a web developer, and it was about time for a site rebuild. Powered by Drupal! :)
- News - Commission => I've started work on a commission for Atlanta-based New Music Collective Camber Cartel.
- News - Collaboration/Commission => I've started work on a collaboration/commission project with the percussion duo Arx Duo.
- News - Collaboration => I've started a collaboration on a piece for trumpet and stereo electroacoustic music with trumpeter Jason Royal.
- News => Defense passed, dissertation deposited, graduation regalia ordered... DMA => DONE!
- Performance - Doctoral Lecture Recital - Urbana, IL => Yi-Wen Chen will be premiering the piece she commissioned from me, Cicadoidea Perspective for clarinet (Bb & Eb) and stereo electroacoustic music.
- Presentation - 2013 SCI Region IV Conference @ Eastern Kentucky University - Richmond, KY => My paper MyPic: A Tool for Computer-Assisted Algorithmic Composition was selected for presentation. The conference was held 10.17-19.2013.
- Exhibition - Feria de Arte Sonoro de Puerto Rico 2013 @ Universidad del Sagrado Corazón - San Juan, PR => My work Contrapture was selected for inclusion in an exhibition of sound and video art 10.3-26.2013 in PR. Info on the events can be found here.
- Performance and Presentation - 2013 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium @ Artscape Wychwood Barns - Toronto, Canada => My work Contrapture was selected for performance and my paper MyPic: A Tool for Computer-Assisted Algorithmic Composition was selected for presentation.
- Performance - Understanding Visual Music 2013 International Symposium @ Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre - Buenos Aires, Argentina => My work Contrapture was selected for performance at UVM 2013 to be held 8.8-9.2013.
- Performance - SEAMUS 2013 National Conference @ McNally Smith College - St. Paul, MN => My piece Contrapture for video and 5.1 surround was selected for performance at this year's SEAMUS conference (4.18-20.2013).
- Performance - Chamber Cartel @ Poem88 : The Party! - Atlanta, GA => Caleb Herron and Amy O'Dell premiered my percussion and piano duet Spectral Evidence at the Chamber Cartel concert - The Party! The concert was on 12.14 at 7pm EST at Poem88.
- Performance - Studio 300 Festival - Lexington, KY => My work Pathfinder was selected for the BYTE Gallery as part of the Studio 300 Festival of Digital Art and Music. The festival took place in Lexington, KY at Transylvania University on 9.28-29.2012.
- Performance - DMC Duo @ Lillstreet Art Center - Chicago, IL => On May 17th the DMC Duo performed a concert with Soprano Jenna Lyle. The concert will included a performance of Increment by Ariana and Caleb.