VICE PRESIDENT FOR PROGRAMS
Annie Hsieh, VP Programs
Statement:
It has been an honor to serve as the VP for Program since 2018 and work alongside other members of the board on matters concerning the general operation of the organization, implementing new initiatives to benefit the membership at large, and overseeing the release of the latest Miniature compilation – Monophonic. Currently, I’m part of the organizing committee for the 2021 virtual conference, helping to facilitate the ambitious and diverse programming we envisioned to present and reflect a more inclusive community in electroacoustic musical practices. Furthermore, I’m looking forward to initiating the next Interactions compilation, which will feature primarily works in the audiovisual and theatrical domains.
Biography:
ANNIE HUI-HSIN HSIEH is a Taiwanese-Australian composer of acoustic and electroacoustic mediums. Her compositional interest focuses on immersive physical experiences and she often articulates sonic expressions in terms of choreography, phenomenology, and musical-social interactivity.
Hsieh’s music has been presented internationally at events such as Beijing Modern Music Festival, Metropolis New Music Festival, OzAsia Festival, WasteLAnd Music Series (LA), The National Gallery of Victoria ‘Melbourne Now’ exhibition’, Tuesdays at Monk Space (LA), Center for New Music (SF), UC Davis The Art of Migration Festival, Mise-en Festival, Adelaide Festival, Tectonics Festival, ISCM World Music Days, International Rostrum of Composers, SEAMUS, Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Opera Memphis Midtown Opera Festival, Eavesdropping Symposium in London, Pittsburgh Festival of New Music, Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music, and Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music.
Some recent commissions include Symphony Services Australia, The Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Wien Modern, Foundation Royaumont, Red Fish Blue Fish, Quince Ensemble and ELISION Ensemble, among others. Her works have also been performed by ensembles including the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, Ulysses Ensemble, Mivos Quartet (USA), Jack Quartet (USA), Rubriks Collective (Australia), Thin Edge New Music Collective (Canada), Ensemble Paramirabo (Canada), Ensemble Dal Niente (USA), Arko Symphonic Ensemble (Australia), Syzygy Ensemble (Australia), Ensemble Offspring (Australia), Alia Musica (USA), and Hong Kong New Music Ensemble (Hong Kong).
She has been a recipient of several awards and honors such as the 2017 APRA (Australian Performance Rights Association) Art Music Fund, the Dorian Le Gallienne Composition Award, as well as supports from the New Music USA, Australian Cultural Fund, Australian Council of the Arts grants, the National Cultural and Arts Foundation (Taiwan), the Carnegie Mellon University Berkman Fund, and was recently a finalist for the Belegura Emerging Composer Award as part of the Melbourne Prize 2019.
Annie completed her bachelor and master degrees from the University of Melbourne and doctorate degree from the University of California, San Diego. She is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor of music at Carnegie Mellon University.
Jon Fielder, VP Programs
Statement:
I’m interested in the position of VP of Programs primarily because of my interest in organizing events and activities related to sharing and creating electroacoustic music. I’ve been involved with organizing concerts and festivals for just under a decade, many of which are centered specifically around electronic and electroacoustic music. Furthermore, I have numerous ideas for collaborative calls for submissions, initiatives for new concert series, as well as series of electroacoustic recordings. Part of my goal in this position would be to make SEAMUS and the activities of electroacoustic composers more visible to larger audiences. Having recently left academia, I see the need for an organization like SEAMUS to expand its reach to a broader base of listeners, and to be inclusive to a wider array of artists and creative minds. This would include reimagining venues, rethinking collaborative and cross-disciplinary collaboration, and most importantly active outreach to artists who may not have immediate – or any – access to the opportunities afforded creatives within academia, where most SEAMUS activities take place. That process begins with the VP of Programs, and it is my firm belief that to make it happen, the person at the helm must exist outside of academia.
Biography:
I’m a composer of electroacoustic and acoustic music, all of which shows a strong interest in timbre, texture, spatialization and narrative. My music is often inspired by my love of natural landscapes, various topics of science and mathematics, the human voice (spoken, sung or just noise), and literature, all of which is filtered through my own personal life experiences. Other interests include cognitive and experiential elements of music in terms of composing, performing and listening, specifically as they relate to perception of time and memory. My preoccupation with time is the result of self-discovery and awareness of my own mental health/illness, and a greater awareness of my own mental processes. My goal is to translate that temporal cognizance into notated instructions for the performer and a sonic experience for the listener. Above all, my music is primarily driven by my obsession with sound itself. I’ve always been intrigued by the nature and physics of sound, the morphology of limited sonic materials over long stretches of time, and the sonic possibilities of all sounds, musical or otherwise.
SECRETARY
Eric Zurbin, Secretary
Statement:
Dear Members, I am interested in serving in the board position of Secretary for SEAMUS in 2021. SEAMUS has meant a lot to me as the first conference I had presented at as a composition student and has had a major impact on the education of me and my graduate school colleagues, so it would be an honor to volunteer my time in this capacity. with kind regards, Eric
Biography:
Eric Zurbin is a composer, sound designer, and doctoral student in composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He works in acoustic, electroacoustic, and mixed media, whose primary interests are algorithmic composition, finding inspiration and drawing from a variety of sources, such as environmental sounds, stochastic and chaotic synthesis, sound analysis data, and algorithmic processes generally. His works have been presented nationally and internationally at events and conferences such as MA/IN, SEAMUS, EMM, Dias de Música, Chime, and Sonic Illinois. His research interests include microtonality, psychoacoustics, spectralism, and algorithmic and computer assisted composition.
John Gibson, Secretary
Statement:
As a long-time member of SEAMUS, I’ve benefited enormously from the chance to get to know colleagues from all over, learn from their music and their ideas, and participate in the CD series and other opportunities. I feel a need to give back now, and I know that I can serve effectively as your Secretary.
I’ve been impressed with how SEAMUS has evolved in recent years to become a more inclusive organization, although clearly there is more work to be done. While we are primarily a university-oriented community, we would gain from broadening our reach and welcoming others. While retaining our commitment to the kinds of music that have been the focus for most SEAMUS composers, we should embrace a wider range of aesthetic approaches.
Amid the pandemic and our ongoing political turmoil, many look to music as a refuge, a way to connect with friends, and a means of expressing despair, anger, or hope. As an essential part of our electronic music community, SEAMUS can bring us together around these concerns. I’m eager to play a role in its continued development.
Biography:
John Gibson composes electronic music, which he often combines with instrumental soloists or ensembles. His music embraces influences ranging from contemporary classical to jazz, funk, and electronica. His portrait CD, Traces, is available on the Innova label, along with other recordings on the Centaur, Everglade, Innova, and SEAMUS labels. Audiences across the world have heard his music, in venues including the D-22 punk rock club in Beijing, the Palazzo Pisani in Venice, and the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. Presentations of his electroacoustic music include concerts at the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the Bourges Synthèse Festival in France, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, the Australasian Computer Music Conference, and many ICMC and SEAMUS conferences. Significant awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Paul Jacobs Memorial Fund Commission from the Tanglewood Music Center, and a residency in the south of France from the Camargo Foundation. He was a Master Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in May 2017. Gibson is associate professor of music and director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music (cecm.indiana.edu) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Josh Tomlinson, Secretary
Statement:
I have been a part of the electroacoustic community as a composer, audio technician, adjudicator (ICMC and NYCEMF), steering committee member (NYCEMF), and educator for nearly ten years. I’ve traveled extensively performing personal works at conferences and festivals throughout the US and abroad, and I’d like to give back to the community and colleagues I’ve met over the years. Please consider voting for me for the Secretary position. It would be a pleasure to assist SEAMUS in continuing to serve the electroacoustic community.
Biography:
Originally from the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Joshua Tomlinson is a composer, sound designer, and educator specializing in electroacoustic music and technology. Joshua completed his DMA in Composition at the University of Oklahoma in 2019 and is currently Instructor and Area Coordinator of Music Technology at the University of North Florida. Additionally, he serves on the steering committee of the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, where he has also participated as a composer and audio technician since 2012. He and his wife share their Florida home with a lemon tree and four cats.
Jon Fielder, Secretary
Statement:
I’m interested in the position of secretary because accurate note-taking and record keeping is essential for any organization to function and run smoothly. Internal organization and communication can be difficult enough when the members of the org are all in the same building, so with an organization the size of SEAMUS, with its members spread so far, it is all the more essential to have someone who is dependable, responsible and thorough as the secretary. I consider myself to be very detail-oriented, and have served in secretarial roles in past organizations, both as a student and a professional. I would be happy to lend my skills and attention to detail to SEAMUS to help the organization continue to run smoothly.
Biography:
I’m a composer of electroacoustic and acoustic music, all of which shows a strong interest in timbre, texture, spatialization and narrative. My music is often inspired by my love of natural landscapes, various topics of science and mathematics, the human voice (spoken, sung or just noise), and literature, all of which is filtered through my own personal life experiences. Other interests include cognitive and experiential elements of music in terms of composing, performing and listening, specifically as they relate to perception of time and memory. My preoccupation with time is the result of self-discovery and awareness of my own mental health/illness, and a greater awareness of my own mental processes. My goal is to translate that temporal cognizance into notated instructions for the performer and a sonic experience for the listener. Above all, my music is primarily driven by my obsession with sound itself. I’ve always been intrigued by the nature and physics of sound, the morphology of limited sonic materials over long stretches of time, and the sonic possibilities of all sounds, musical or otherwise.
Ian Guthrie, Secretary
Statement:
Dear SEAMUS Board Officers,
My name is Ian Guthrie, and I am excited about the possibilities of serving on the SEAMUS board as either the Treasurer or Secretary. I have served on various committees in the past, most notably the Society of Composers, Inc. as the Region VI Student Representative (2015-16) and as Assistant Marketer and Marketer (2018-present). In the former role, I solicited members and institutions to join the organization, helped regional conference hosts and their participants with any details, handled certain correspondence pertaining to the conferences, and also promoted “Snapshot conferences” between various schools, which did occur in central Kansas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In my role as Marketer, I have been responsible for creating Facebook advertisements and announcements, corresponding with Facebook messages to the organization, maintaining the Facebook pages, managing and updating the Google Calendar for the SCI Executive Committee, vouched for budget and award reforms with the SCI/ASCAP awards and National Student Conferences, and also vouched for ways to attract and highlight the BIPOC community within the organization.
I also served as the Treasurer for the Florida State University SCI Chapter, where I began and “maintain[ed] bank relations” for the Chapter (prior to then all money was kept in a designated envelope), “deposit[ed] and collect[ed] membership dues,” distributed money (if available) “for [SCI] related expenses,” and reported financial status every officers’ meeting. Finally, as an entrepreneur and teacher, I have done much secretarial work summarizing lessons, conversations, and meetings, distributing these details as necessary, and handled correspondence—sometimes over 100 messages per day. Through my experiences as a Representative, Marketer, Treasurer, and sole proprietor at both local and international levels, I believe I would be a great fit as SEAMUS’ Treasurer or Secretary.
What attracts me to SEAMUS is its inclusivity for people of all backgrounds, including experience with electro-acoustic music. Being newer to electroacoustic composition myself, I have found this organization to be welcoming and encouraging, and hope to contribute to that mission imminently as a Treasurer or Secretary. I look forward to hearing from you soon, and should you have any questions or comments, please contact me at 360-977-0722 or at [email protected]. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Ian Evans Guthrie
Biography:
Ian Evans Guthrie, an emerging composer, performer, researcher, and collaborator, has received the Mile High Freedom Band 2021 Commission, 1st prize for the Noosa-ISAM and Arcady Composition competitions, 2nd prize for the American Prize, a nomination for a 2020 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other accolades for his compositions. Many of his works have been performed publicly around the world by fEARnoMUSIC, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, Moore Philharmonic Orchestra, VIPA, highSCORE Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Charlotte New Music Festival, and others. He has served on various committees, including the Society of Composers, Inc., where he served as the Region VI Student Representative before serving as Assistant Marketer and Marketer. His most recent works include Flight for Freedom for band, a fixed media track for dancer Ilana Goldman, tracks for various exhibitions at Venvi Art Gallery (Tallahassee, FL), and the score for the story ballet The Queen of Nori. As a pianist, Guthrie has won awards from MTNA, the Great Composer Competition, and other organizations. He also actively researches the relationship between harmony and rhythmic cells, and his paper Rhythm as Function has been featured at several past and upcoming conferences across the continent
TREASURER
Lyn Goeringer, Treasurer
Statement:
I have served as treasurer of SEAMUS for the past two years, and I would like to continue to do so. SEAMUS is an organization that I strongly support, and am very excited to continue to be a part of SEAMUS in the capacity of treasurer as it continues to develop, engage in and support equity, diversity, and sustainable approaches in electronic music communities.
Thank you for your time and consideration, and I look forward to continuing to serving in this capacity if elected.
Biography:
Lyn Goeringer is an electronic musician and sound artist whose work focuses on the relationship between bodies, space, and the environment. Her sound worlds most often tend to shift between intense focus and noise, combining field recordings with synthesis in live performance environments. Her scholarly research investigates space, place, and the Everday, and she is currently working on her book “Unseen Media: Towards a Media Archeology of EMF” where she explores in depth the use of EMF as a medium by sound artists working in urban environments. She is currently the Director of Electronic Music and Multimedia Studios, and holds the joint appointment of assistant professor in Composition and in Film Studies in the Department of English at Michigan State University, in Lansing, MI. When she isn’t working on new electronic sound pieces, she is either out for a walk, painting, or hanging out with her cats Rinchen and Norbu.
You can find more out about her from her website at:
www.lyngoeringer.com/portfolio
https://www.music.msu.edu/faculty/profile/lyn
https://soundcloud.com/lyn-goeringer
Ian Guthrie, Treasurer
Statement:
Dear SEAMUS Board Officers,
My name is Ian Guthrie, and I am excited about the possibilities of serving on the SEAMUS board as either the Treasurer or Secretary. I have served on various committees in the past, most notably the Society of Composers, Inc. as the Region VI Student Representative (2015-16) and as Assistant Marketer and Marketer (2018-present). In the former role, I solicited members and institutions to join the organization, helped regional conference hosts and their participants with any details, handled certain correspondence pertaining to the conferences, and also promoted “Snapshot conferences” between various schools, which did occur in central Kansas and the Dallas-Fort Worth area. In my role as Marketer, I have been responsible for creating Facebook advertisements and announcements, corresponding with Facebook messages to the organization, maintaining the Facebook pages, managing and updating the Google Calendar for the SCI Executive Committee, vouched for budget and award reforms with the SCI/ASCAP awards and National Student Conferences, and also vouched for ways to attract and highlight the BIPOC community within the organization.
I also served as the Treasurer for the Florida State University SCI Chapter, where I began and “maintain[ed] bank relations” for the Chapter (prior to then all money was kept in a designated envelope), “deposit[ed] and collect[ed] membership dues,” distributed money (if available) “for [SCI] related expenses,” and reported financial status every officers’ meeting. Finally, as an entrepreneur and teacher, I have done much secretarial work summarizing lessons, conversations, and meetings, distributing these details as necessary, and handled correspondence—sometimes over 100 messages per day. Through my experiences as a Representative, Marketer, Treasurer, and sole proprietor at both local and international levels, I believe I would be a great fit as SEAMUS’ Treasurer or Secretary.
What attracts me to SEAMUS is its inclusivity for people of all backgrounds, including experience with electro-acoustic music. Being newer to electroacoustic composition myself, I have found this organization to be welcoming and encouraging, and hope to contribute to that mission imminently as a Treasurer or Secretary. I look forward to hearing from you soon, and should you have any questions or comments, please contact me at 360-977-0722 or at [email protected]. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely,
Ian Evans Guthrie
Biography:
Ian Evans Guthrie, an emerging composer, performer, researcher, and collaborator, has received the Mile High Freedom Band 2021 Commission, 1st prize for the Noosa-ISAM and Arcady Composition competitions, 2nd prize for the American Prize, a nomination for a 2020 award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and other accolades for his compositions. Many of his works have been performed publicly around the world by fEARnoMUSIC, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, Moore Philharmonic Orchestra, VIPA, highSCORE Music Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, Charlotte New Music Festival, and others. He has served on various committees, including the Society of Composers, Inc., where he served as the Region VI Student Representative before serving as Assistant Marketer and Marketer. His most recent works include Flight for Freedom for band, a fixed media track for dancer Ilana Goldman, tracks for various exhibitions at Venvi Art Gallery (Tallahassee, FL), and the score for the story ballet The Queen of Nori. As a pianist, Guthrie has won awards from MTNA, the Great Composer Competition, and other organizations. He also actively researches the relationship between harmony and rhythmic cells, and his paper Rhythm as Function has been featured at several past and upcoming conferences across the continent
Ben Fuhrman, Treasurer
Statement:
I’ve been a member of SEAMUS since 2008 and have enthusiastically participated in the conferences call for recordings, and have encouraged my students to submit to the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composer Program. I’ve greatly benefited as a composer from seeing the works of others performed, listening to the SEAMUS recordings, and from the discussions at conferences. Having been nominated, I now have an opportunity to give back to this wonderful organization, by serving as treasurer, helping SEAMUS to grow as it’s helped me.
Biography:
Ben Fuhrman is a composer and performer currently serving as a special lecturer at Oakland University where he teaches music technology and composition. He holds degrees from Hope College (B.M. in violin performance), and Michigan State University (both M.M. and D.M.A. in composition). As a composer and teacher, his work focuses on exploring the interaction between human and computer, the exploration of texture and timbre, and helping his students to develop their own compositional styles: including in film and video game scoring. He has had works commissioned from performers including Drake Dantzler, Violet, Jeffrey Loeffert, Nathan
Boggert, the H2 Quartet, the East Lansing High School Orchestra, REACH Studio Art, and the MSU National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and Facility for Rare Isotope Beams. His works have also been performed throughout the world. His music has been released on the Albany Records, Argali Records, Blue Griffin, and Elmstreet labels.
Margaret Schedel, Treasurer
Statement:
As someone who has recently become chair of a department I know how important it is to have clear financials. I now have the expertise to handle bank relations and I am comfortable being the person on record for depositing and collecting membership dues. I promise to distribute payments for SEAMUS related expenses in a timely manner and commit to producing an annual, accurate, and detailed report on the financial status of the society in addition to a more general public summary for the membership.
Biography:
With an interdisciplinary career blending classical training in cello and composition, sound/audio data research, and innovative computational arts education, Margaret Anne Schedel transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at the nexus of computation and the arts. She has a diverse creative output with works spanning the interactive multimedia opera The King Listens, virtual reality experiences, sound art, video game scores, and compositions for a wide variety of classical instruments or custom controllers with interactive audio and video processing. She is internationally recognized for the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media and won the 2019 Pamela Z Innovation Award. Her solo CD, Signal through the Flames, will be released by Parma Records in2020. She holds a certificate in Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and has studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Cort Lippe and McGregor Boyle and Geoffrey Wright and improvisation with George Lewis and Mark Applebaum. Schedel is a joint author of Cambridge University Press’s Electronic Music and recently edited an issue of Organised Sound on using electroacoustic terminology to describe pre-electric sound. Her work has been supported by the Presser Foundation, Centro Mexicano para laMúsica y les Artes Sonoras, and Meet the Composer. She has been commissioned by the Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Ictus, reACT, Yarn|Wire and the Unheard-of//Ensemble. Her research focuses on gesture in music, the sustainability of technology in art, and sonification of data; she co-authored a paper published in Frontiers of Neuroscience on using familiar music to sonify the gaits of people with Parkinson’s Disease. She serves as a regional editor for Organised Sound and is an editor for the open access journal Cogent Arts and Humanities. From 2009-2014 she helped run Devotion, a gallery in New York City focused on the intersection of art, science, new media, and design. As an Associate Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she taught SUNY’s first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) for Coursera, and formerly served as the director of the Consortium for Digital Arts Culture and Technology. Schedel currently serves as the Chair of the Art Department and is a core faculty leading the Making Sense of Data Workgroup at the Institute of Advanced Computational Science. She also teaches computer music composition at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. In her spare time, she curates exhibitions focusing on the intersection of art, science, new media, and sound while running www.arts.codes, a platform and artist collective celebrating art with computational underpinnings.
Mike Boyd, Treasurer
Statement:
I have been a member of SEAMUS for nearly fifteen years and first had my work programmed on a national conference in 2007. In the years since I’ve served as a conference adjudicator several times. I found the September 2020 meeting very inspiring – there is real energy around diversifying our organization in terms of both demographics and aesthetics, and I would welcome the opportunity to join the board and help further those goals. Additionally, I feel that I would be able to contribute to SEAMUS in the treasurer position because I complete a fair amount of budget work both as Music Program Coordinator at Chatham University and as an elected member of the Wilkins Township Board of Commissioners.
Biography:
Michael Boyd is a composer, scholar, and experimental improviser. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Maryland and Stony Brook University. Boyd is currently Associate Professor of Music and Music Program Coordinator at Chatham University in Pittsburgh, PA. His music embraces experimental practices such as installation, multimedia, and performance art, and has been performed in a variety of venues throughout the United States and abroad. Recordings of Boyd’s music can be heard on Ablaze Records, Navona Records, and various online locations. His user-driven installation Confessional won the 2016 FETA Prize in Sound Art. Boyd has published articles in Perspectives of New Music, Tempo, and Notes, as well as review essays in Computer Music Journal, Popular Music & Society, and American Music. Active in his community, he is currently serving a third elected term on the Wilkins Township Board of Commissioners where he works on a range of issues including transportation and public safety. Boyd is an active cyclist, often biking to work and competing in mountain bike races.