Brian Belet’s composition Loose Canon, for any three instruments and Kyma (2017), was premiered by the SPLICE Ensemble (Sam Wells, trumpet; Keith Kirchoff, piano, & Adam Vidiksis, percussion) at the 2018 SPLICE Festival on January 27, 2018, hosted by Western Michigan … [Read more...]
Interview with Scott L. Miller – by Steven Ricks
I first met Scott Miller at SEAMUS 2013, hosted by McNally Smith College in the Minnesota Twin Cities area, not far from Scott’s home in St. Cloud. I had been corresponding with him via email about the new “Electro-Acoustic Miniatures: Re-Caged” I had helped curate and judge, and … [Read more...]
Letter to SEAMUS Membership from President Ted Coffey
Dear SEAMUS Members, It is a great honor to serve as the society’s 10th president. Due to effective, progressive leadership, to accumulating institutional wisdom, and to vital engagement from our membership, we are well positioned to meet the future. The recent conference at the … [Read more...]
Interview with SPLICE Faculty Members – by Steven Ricks
“From my perspective, SPLICE Institute is about building and maintaining a community of creative individuals who all value the use of technology in music-making, whether it be performing, composing, producing, research, etc. We focus specifically on composing and performing, but … [Read more...]
Member News
Fall 2017 Based on recent work in creating resonating sound objects, Beth Bradfish recently won a six-month Field/Work residency with the Chicago Artists Coalition. A sample of Exhale, a sonic bed, has been uploaded to the SEAMUS members new … [Read more...]