The SEAMUS 2017 National Conference will be held April 20–22, 2017 at St. Cloud State University in Saint Cloud, Minnesota. Located on the banks of the Mississippi River, the conference will present a broad intersection of electro-acoustic music and art in small and large concert venues on campus, a downtown nightclub and in guerrilla concerts. More information can […]
Interview With Eric Chasalow
By Lou Bunk — Eric Chasalow is a composer known for creating a vivid kind of “super-musique concrète ” that combines traditional instruments with manipulated pre-recorded sounds from any source imaginable. He teaches at Brandeis University, where he directs BEAMS, the Brandeis Electro-Acoustic Music Studio. This past February, Eric and I met in his office at […]
Member News
Winter 2017 SEAMUS Newsletter Member News Kevork Andonian’s composition “Of the Dancing of the Spirits at Night” has been released on a CD album titled Aboriginal Inspirations. The instrumentation consists of Native American flute, frame drum, violin, and piano. The flutist is Ron Korb, who was Grammy-nominated in 2016. The other performers are percussionist Dominique Moreau, violinist […]
Interview with Russell Pinkston
SEAMUS Member At Large Eli Fieldsteel interviews his former teacher and past SEAMUS President Russell Pinkston “With every advance in technology, new possibilities are opened, even as some things we may have valued highly may seem to be lost. And the new possibilities tend to allow composers to work at a higher level, which then […]
Member News
SEAMUS Member News — Fall 2016 John Akins’ latest electronic work, “Les Coqs de Delmas,” was premiered at the Christian Fellowship of Art Music Composers (CFAMC) national conference at Mississippi College, Clinton, MS, in October 2016, following a report on a musical missions trip to an orphanage in Haiti in 2013. Ambient sounds recorded on location […]