Last October Mike McFerron hosted another MusicBYTES concert at Lewis University. The bi-annual event featured a short program of video pieces, and was referred to as a mini-concert by McFerron. It took place in Ives Hall in the Orson Fine Arts Building on the Lewis University campus. McFerron presided over the [...]
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Nowhere. is a high-definition video presentation filmed across seven states over the course of seven months. It is inspired by the filmmaking of Ron Fricke and Godfrey Reggio in its employment of non-narrative structure, use of time-lapse photography, and observational technique.
I saw this project as [...]
Guillaume Loizillon just posted Phono Photo No. 6, an online exhibition of images with music.
Connecting two writings : one with the light and one with the acoustic wave.
Sound doesn’t comment the picture and is not either its audible side. However, the connection between the two elements requires a rebuilding, a drift of the [...]
This week I interviewed Nolan Stolz about his upcoming concert, which features works composed simultaneously in a 60-minute time span. The concert is being sponsored by New Music Hartford, and is a benefit for the South Park Inn.
Nolan Stolz in the Recording Studio
Listen to the ComputerMusicBlog interview with composer [...]
Today I caught up with Elliot Miles McKinley, one of the members of the electroacoustic imrpovisation group earWorm.
In the interview, we talk about the group’s creative process, and how the four composers work as an ensemble. McKinley elaborates on the surprises and enlightening moments that occur when improvising with computers.
Merce Cunningham passed away on Sunday, July 26th. Cunningham was known as a choreographer and dancer, but in this article, I want to review his work with composers of electroacoustic music. He collaborated extensively with John Cage, and also worked on a number of early movement-music interfaces. His ideas had a direct [...]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to talk with Adam Scott Neal about his new CD, Parallel Lives. Neal is one of the most visible young composers in the computer music scene. His work has been performed at many conferences and concerts, and he can be heard at the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium [...]
Recently I caught up with Kevin Austin to talk about his involvement with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kontakte.
Stockhausen demonstrating the 4-channel technique used in Kontakte
He spoke at length about how the 4-channel version of the piece really alters a listener’s perception of the piece, and how Kontakte has presaged many other movements in [...]