The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2019 National Conference will be held at Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee in Boston Massachusetts, March 21-23, 2019. SEAMUS 2019 will present an eclectic and diverse blend of electro-acoustic music and music-oriented forms including fixed media electroacoustic works, works composed for […]
Gordon Mumma Named 2019 SEAMUS Award Winner
The 2019 SEAMUS Award will be presented to Gordon Mumma at the SEAMUS National Conference banquet at the Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Gordon Mumma (born 30 March 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) studied piano and horn in Chicago and Detroit, and began his career as a horn player in symphonic and […]
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SEAMUS members Linda Antas and Jason Bolte created the audio for an installation entitled NeuroCAVE. It involves interactive brainwave analysis, interactive and fixed audio, interactive color-changing side emitting fiber optics, and video. The installation consists of six video projectors (Anderson-video/Mast-images), interactive brainwave sonification (Antas), an outer layer of ambient sound (Bolte), and five “cave forms” […]
Any Noise At All
Any Noise At All: A Brief Discussion on a Taxonomy of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music Edited and expanded by Dustin Ragland, Academy of Contemporary Music at The University of Central Oklahoma “Brahms makes object: beginning, middle, end. Art and artists predict what’s going to happen, predict and understand change…Then tape arrived. Whole medium opened up. Can record any sound on […]
An Evaluation of the University of Illinois EMS Archive
By David M. Luftig University of Dayton Research Services Librarian Introduction This study seeks to understand the content, organization, and context of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios’ (EMS) archive. For this project, I spent seventeen weeks documenting the original EMS archive with a particular focus on the magnetic tape collection. The original EMS […]