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
Home
Welcome to danielswilley.com! On this site you will find information about me, my music, and my research/interests. If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Current Events/News/Updates
- Performance - BSU EM|Three Concert => My piece Jormungandr, for trumpet and live electronics, was performed at the EM|Three concert at BSU. - 2.6.2017.
- Update - Mantis => Score and Audio added to site
- Performance - BSU EM|Two Concert => My piece Dreamcaster was performed with dancers from the BSU dance department [Susan Koper, Choreographer/Advisor]. - 11.7.2016.
- Performance - Ball State New Music Festival 2016 => My piece Mantis, for solo marimba, was premiered by Bruno Cabrera on the Friday night concert of the festival (3.18.2016).
- Performance - SEAMUS 2016 National Conference @ Georgia Southern University - Statesboro, GA => My piece Absolute Zero for stereo ea was selected for performance at this year's SEAMUS conference (2.11-13.2016).
- 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.