The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2020 National Conference will be held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia March 12-14, 2020. SEAMUS 2020 will present an exceptional program of works showcasing a broad spectrum of electro-acoustic modes and practices, including fixed media electroacoustic works, works for real-time interactive performance, […]
Annea Lockwood Named 2020 SEAMUS Award Winner
The 2020 SEAMUS Award will be presented to Annea Lockwood at the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2020 National Conference, held at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia on March 12-14, 2020. Born in New Zealand in 1939, Annea Lockwood moved to England in 1961, studying composition at the Royal […]
Member News – Summer 2019
Brian Belet‘s Loose Canon, for any three instruments and Kyma real-time processing (composed 2016), was performed by The SPLICE Ensemble (Samuel Wells, Keith Kirchoff, & Adam Vidiksis), with Mark Zaki controlling Kyma in performance real time, at the International Computer Music Conference (held in conjunction with the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival), on June 17, 2019, in New York City, New York. Kyong Mee Choi reports the […]
Interview with Anne La Berge
by Steve Ricks photo: Peter van der Heyden Introduction In 2000 I met composer and flutist Ned McGowan at an SCI National Student Conference in Ann Arbor, MI, a fortuitous experience that has led to a lasting friendship. At the time we met, Ned had recently relocated to Amsterdam to work with, among others, Anne La […]
Embodied Rhythm in Electroacoustic Practice
By Dustin Ragland In early electronic music, particularly those works based on environmental sounds (what we might call field recordings, however spliced and arranged they might have been), we hear a world of sound objects that are irregular and fragmented. This reflection was made possible by the various recording and replay technologies that allowed us to […]