Nick Hwang
about music
Finished an arrangement of my the second movement of my latest String Quartet for string orchestra, be the performed by the Louisiana Sinfonietta. Coincidentally, I'm the webmaster and administrative assistant for the Sinfonietta. Its performance is on March 24, 7pm. Check out the performance at LSU School of Music, to a hear an [...]
A year ago, Philip Glass spoke at LSU, and one of his most memorable quotes on notation was to the effect 'Don't use overly complex notation; the performers will mess it up anyway: A poor performer will mess it, and a better performer will do what they feel like.' George Crumb is to have said [...]
We're back from SEAMUS2011, and we barely have time to prepare for our Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana tour. Today is day full of rehearsal and tech. prep. I have a ton of academic loose-ends. My general exams still loom at the end of the tour. We're making four stops in the Southeast to perform and [...]
"And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony." Colossians 3:14 [Nocturne from String Quartet No. 1] I went home to Florida for winter break, as I normally do, and got to visit family. This year saw the addition of two new in-laws: My sister's husband Aaron and [...]
On the heels of the ISIM conference, we (Jeff, Corey and I) received word, our trio has been accepted to perform at the Society Electro-Acoustic MUSic (SEAMUS) conference this coming January in Miami. We’re hoping to hear word while we were in Ann Arbor, and the anxiety of not being accepted was swept-over as we [...]
Three of us, Jeff Albert, J Corey Knoll and I (going by the trio 'The Three Computeers') are going to perform at the International Society of Improvised Music conference at the University of Michigan. http://www.isimprov.org/upcomingEvent.html This year has been a blessing in terms of exploring and building on musical experiences outside of just [...]
For the first time in since I've been in college (10 years now), since this summer, I've been consistently been going to church. I feel like it had been something I was actively pushing away, and I can admit now that I know it's something important to me. Hopefully, I will be able to find [...]
I recently came to a stopping point in an fixed electroacoustic piece that I had been working for a while. "Pop Reference" takes a dialogue I wrote between a pair during a car ride where they confront each on some frustrating situations with their relationship. The dialogue progresses through different exchanges where they both confront [...]
Stuart Dempster in his The Modern Trombone wrote about the use of electronics: "A tape often is really only a substitute for something that might sound better accomplished by another method; this other method might, however, be prohibitively costly or problematical. Usually the audience is served up this sort of acoustical compromise, or a synthetic [...]
'What the Bells' is a musical piece that involves Wiimote, Laptop, and (recently added) iPhone/iPad. 'What the Bells' involves a 4 Bell players, each with Wii-Motes and laptop running a client Max patch. A central laptop sends performer instructions via OSC. Global parameters such as timbre changes and delay, controlled by iPhone or iPad, are [...]
