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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 [...]
'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 [...]
