Hartt-Dartmouth Composer Exchange
Written by courtney on February 7, 2008 – 12:36 pm -Hartt-Dartmouth Composer Exchange
Saturday, February 9, 2008 7:00PM
Faulkner Hall
Dartmouth College
Come join us for new music!
About:
A concert series featuring new works from composers from the Hartt School of Music and Dartmouth College. The composers from each school visit and get performances at the other school.
EA-Music Concert: An Evening of Experimental and Electronic Musics
Written by courtney on November 28, 2007 – 12:42 am -You are invited to the Electro-Acoustic Music Concert, which features compositions by Courtney Brown, John Arroyo, Carmen Caruso, Beau Sievers, Kristina Wolfe, and Michael Chinen. We would be ecstatic to see you there!
An Evening of Experimental and Electronic Musics
Saturday, December 1st, 7:00pm
Faulkner Hall in the Hopkins Center
Dartmouth College
Robin Hayward Residency
Written by webmaster on October 9, 2007 – 12:22 pm -The EA Music program will host the English tuba player and composer Robin Hayward as part of an artist’s residency from November 12 to 16.
Hayward is a leading figure in the international contemporary music scene, having worked with composers such as Luigi Nono, Alvin Lucier, and Christian Wolff, and in groups such as Das Kreisen, roananax, Phosphor, Plainsound Orchestra and the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin.
During his Dartmouth residency, Hayward will perform as part of the Vaughan Recital Series (November 14), and “the way to go out” series (November 15). He will also work with EA graduate students and faculty on pieces composed specifically for his visit.
http://www.robinhayward.de
We Are All Mozart
Written by webmaster on August 7, 2007 – 4:37 am -The EA Music program commissioned Dennis Kitsz as part of his 365 Day Composition Project to create a piece of music for the department. We have put it online fo everyone to enjoy.
Listen to “A Village in the Wind”
‘ “A Village on the Wind” is an invented culture grown from a melded sonic
culture. With source material from rural Nodar (Portugal) and urban
Utrecht, “Village” blows back and forth with its goat bells and church
bells, voices in Portuguese and Dutch, birds, doors, storms, and
electronically manipulated textures of door creaks and wind and water and
singing and exaggerated soundstage. The bells and thunder intertwine with a
sadness, a sadness implicit — and explicit only when it is revealed that
the church bells, fading almost inaudibly into the wind, are tolling
Holocaust Remembrance Day.’ - Dennis Kitsz
To find out more about his project and his compositions visit his website
Posted in Compositions, Guests | No Comments »EA Music wraps up another Festival of New Musics
Written by webmaster on May 9, 2007 – 10:05 pm -This past Sunday marked the final concert in what was a week long event of concerts featuring the talents of the electro-acoustic department, music department, and invited guests. Kicking things off was the EA music concert in Faulkner Hall April 29th. All of the current graduate students showcased one or more of their works. This included works by:
John Arroyo
Courtney Brown
Carmen Caruso
Sean Peuquet
Danny Shapira
Katia Zarrillo
Tuesday was in the large concert hall on campus (Spaulding Auditorium) and featured the Barton Workshop and the second year grad students Sean Peuquet, Danny Shapira & Katia Zarrillo. Wednesday was an acoustic/percussion showcase featuring Doug Perkins, Larry Polansky and many undergraduate music students. Saturday was a whole concert dedicated to improvision which was curated by Newton Armstrong. Guests from New York City, a group of undergraduates, and professors larry Polansky, Kui Dong, and Newton Amstrong all performed great sets of improvised music. To wrap up the fest was a final Sunday concert with performances and tape pieces from a wide array of students in many styles.
For more information on the individual concerts and their participants, visit the NMF Website. A special thanks goes out to everyone who came out to listen.
Posted in Events | No Comments »Congratulations John Arroyo
Written by bregman on May 8, 2007 – 2:42 am -John Arroyo has recently received a Graduate Student Travel Award from the Office of Graduate Studies. This Award will fund his trip to NYC to perform at the upcoming 2007 International Conference on New Instruments for Musical Expression (NIME 07). His composition MEAPsoft Chopshop was accepted into one the NIME concerts to be performed this June. The performance involves 2 turntables, a mixer, time-coded vinyl, Max/MSP and some original tape pieces.
Posted in Compositions, Trips | No Comments »EA Grad Students Take to the Road
Written by bregman on May 8, 2007 – 2:22 am -The current Electro-Acoustic grad students were recently invited to perform their pieces at both Brandeis University and Haart School of Music. John Arroyo, Courtney Brown, Carmen Caruso, Sean Peuquet, Danny Shapira & Katia Zarrillo all showcased their work. Works ranged in medium to include voice, flute, turntables, and interactive Max/MSP as well as multi-channel tape pieces.
Gallery Opening: Charlie DeTar
Written by bregman on January 11, 2007 – 11:06 pm -Charlie DeTar will present the works for his thesis, “Transgressive Interactive Art”, in a gallery opening at Hallgarten Hall on Friday, Jan 19 and Saturday, Jan 20 from 5pm to 9pm. The works include his recent compositions “Still”, “Community”, “SDD”, as well as documentation of the fourth thesis work, “Inhibit”, which was performed at Dartmouth’s New Music Festival in 2006.
The works represent the culmination of his studies in the last 2.5 years. And, in keeping with the theme, expect to have a rollicking good time with unconventional transgressions and participatory noise making. Refreshments will be provided.
A flyer for the event:
Charlie’s Thesis Flyer (pdf)
Posted in Events | No Comments »Thesis Defense: Charlie DeTar
Written by bregman on January 11, 2007 – 11:05 pm -Charlie DeTar will defend his master’s thesis on Thursday, Jan 25, starting at 4pm at Hallgarten Hall. The topic of the thesis is Transgressive Interactive Art. The thesis committee includes Larry Polansky (adviser), Newton Armstrong, Aden Evens, and Soo Young Park. All are welcome to attend.
Posted in Events, Thesis Defense | No Comments »Graduate Program News
Written by bregman on November 30, 2006 – 5:57 pm -The following was written for the Dartmouth Graduate Studies Newsletter, 11/29/06
Graduate Forum Article: Spring ’07 Newsletter
Graduate Program in Electro-Acoustic Music
The Graduate Program in Electro-Acoustic Music was very pleased to welcome first-year students John Arroyo, Courtney Brown and Carmen Caruso this fall, giving our Program gender equity for the first time in its history (the field of computer music has struggled with this for a very long time). We also have two visiting faculty this year, Professor Newton Armstrong (PhD, Princeton University) and Ge Wang, also from Princeton (“ABD” in Computer Science, Princeton). Ge taught the fall Graduate Seminar on digital signal processing and computer language design, and Newton is teaching a course on sensors, microprocessors, and real-time interactive music in the winter. Prof. Jon Appleton taught a summer seminar in music cognition, and this spring, Prof. Larry Polansky will teach the graduate composition seminar.
November was very exciting as 5 faculty, 7 graduate students and our technical director, attended the International Computer Music Conference at Tulane University in New Orleans. Faculty hosted panels, gave concerts, and all graduate students worked as interns, helping with technical and audio setups (our Technical Director Yuri Spitsyn was the sound engineer for the main concert venue). The conference, a historic collaboration between the International Computer Music Association and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, was organized and chaired by Dartmouth graduate program alumnus Tae Hong Park ’00, a professor at Tulane (and co-organized by fellow Dartmouth graduate alum Paul Botelho). Many alum from our program gave papers, led panels, and had pieces performed at the conference.
Last March 7th at Collis Common Ground, the gradutate students held a concert of their own works called “Music for the Impending Revolution,” including works for 8-channel sound, improvisational musical systems, piano, clarinet and computer music with live text. Another concert, the 28th Annual Festival of New Musics, which ran from May 6-10th, featured new work by faculty and students. In addition to stellar student performances (Charles DeTar’s Inhibit, Sean Peuquet’s Stars Visible Through, Daniel Shapira’s Vitality and Katia Zarrillo’s HideYourself), faculty members, Charles Dodge, Kui Dong and visiting faculty Marina Rosenfeld held a panel discussion on, “The Meanings of New Music”.
FACULTY NEWS:
Kui Dong is currently collabrating with San Francisco artist Gigi Chang, Poet Denise Newman, Meridan Gallery and the Piedmont Choir for a site-specific multi-media installation-performance piece that will open in the spring of 2007 in San Francisco.
Larry Polansky’s Epitaph, a four-channel tape piece, was premiered at the Richmond Third Practice Festival in November, and also played on ICMC. It has recently been released on a commercial DVD of new computer music in 5.1 surround sound.
Yuri Spitsyn, Technical Director and Faculty member recently collaborated with IMA (Austria) on a telematic project called “Die Grosse Partitur” and finished an algorithmic computer piece called Jubjub’s chronicles. He continues to work on his “wEave” compositional software project.
STUDENT NEWS:
Second year Grad Student, Katerina Zarrillo, has completed several tape pieces, a text-sound composition, and a work for clarinet and live electronics. She is currently at work on M.A her thesis, an attempt to rethink and redesign her interactions with the electronic music studio to facilitate interactive, embodied compositional practices.
Alumni Notes:
Bruno Ruviaro ‘04, currently a doctoral candidate in Composition at Stanford University, received a commission to write a piece for a new CD of the Percorso Ensemble (Brazil), a chamber group specialized in new music. The CD is to be released in 2007.
Leslie Stone ‘98, returned in March from her Peace Corps service as a Water and Sanitation Agent in Mali, West Africa. She is now teaching mathematics at Brimingham High School in Van Nuys, CA. She says there may be a future DSP whiz in one of her
classes!
Kevin Parks ‘97, is pursuing his PhD in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia.
Michael Casey ’92, was awarded a large grant to research the digital searching of large music collections.
Martin McKinney ‘91, has been in the Netherlands for 5 years, working at Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, leading a project in music information
retrieval. The project involves developing systems to automatically extract relevant
metadata from musical audio to support music playlisting, browsing and
search technologies.
Christian Jakso, ’02, completed his piece Sonetten om andningen for
partly ring-modulated ensemble, as well as of a preliminary version of Prime
Fractions: Minor Relations for jazz orchestra. Christian is still playing in the radio big band in Frankfurt, Germany, with which he also directed a concert of his music in May 2006.