SEAMUS 2021 Digital Conference Schedule

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Thursday 4/22

6-7pm: Pre-conference event: Screening and Artist Talk

Co-Curators Drs. Adam Vidiksis and yaTande Whitney V. Hunter will screen their new collaborative work “Recursive Presence” created in collaboration between the Temple Dance Ensemble (TDE) and The Boyer College Electroacoustic Ensemble Project (BEEP). Co-Curators will be joined by Lela Aisha Jones of FlyGround to screen and discuss the collaborative process of her work “Plight Release and the Diasporic Body.” Curators will be joined by TDE and BEEP members.

 

Friday 4/23

9:30-11:30am: Paper session I 

9:30-10: Arian Bagheri Pour Fallah and Ashkan Zareie, Récit as a Musical Form: Modular Media, Aural Simulacra, and Machine Learning
10-10:30: Nicholas Cline, suono non statico: Luigi Nono’s Late Electroacoustic Works
10:30-11: Marcel Zaes, From Listening to Playing – Browser-Based Sound-Making in #otherbeats
11-11:30: Kaitlin Pet and Christopher Raphael,  Applications of Interactive Score Following with Informatics Philharmonic in Electroacoustic Performance

 

11:30am: Welcome session

 

12pm-12am (4/24): Twelve

Adam Vidiksis, Stephanie Sherriff, Julie Zhu, Bradley Robin, Marc Ainger, Omar Fraire, Samuel Wells, The Core, Cathleen Grado, Seth Shafer, Modality, Nick Virzi, Jean-Francois Charles and Will Yager, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Ted Moore, Steven Kemper, Brad Decker, duoB. Vs. viDEO sAVant, Cecilia Suhr, Daniel McKemie, Jiayue Cecilia Wu, Scott Miller/Dilate Ensemble, Jean-Paul Perrotte, Jeremy dePrisco

Curated by CCRMA at Stanford University, TWELVE is an interdisciplinary durational performance event that begins at 12pm, 04/23, and ends at 12am, 04/24, featuring artists and musicians from around the world.

 

1-2:30pm: Panel: Telematic for the People: Making Music Online in Less Than Ideal Conditions

Lauren Hayes, Andrew C. Smith, Isaac Schankler

This panel will discuss the challenges and discoveries involved in performing and presenting electroacoustic music in online contexts, with a special focus on telematic music-making in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

2:30-4pm: Workshops Session I

Indra Networked Virtual Score Platform
Drake Andersen 

Krashkan: Tools for Interactive Music Theatre
Alexis Bacon, Alison Dobbins, Clarence Nanamori 

 

4-5:30pm: Panel: Futuring the Past: Contemporary Explorations of Traditional Performance Practices in Technology

“Big Room” (Artists and Audience Open Discussion):
Topic: In what way can we imagine the future informing the past?

An open discussion w/ Artists and Audience. Co-curators Drs. Adam Vidiksis and yaTande Whitney V. Hunter invite guests to discuss ways we can imagine the future informing the past specifically as it relates to “Contemporary Explorations of Traditional Performance Practices in Technology.” The “Big Room” is structured around three grounding questions presented to the “room.” An allotted duration will be provided as a frame for the responses before moving along to the following question.

Moderators: Drs. yaTande Whitney V. Hunter and Adam Vidiksis, Temple University
Guest Artists: Alice Blumenfeld, Marjani Forte, Manjunan Gnanaratnam, Aurie Hsu, Lela Aisha Jones, Rajeev Maddela, Everett Saunders, and Alex Shaw

 

5:30-7pm: Workshops Session II

Creating Visuals Through Code
JP Lempke

Remote Body Sample Player
Ryan Ingebritsen, Christopher Knowlton, John Toenjes

 

7-8:30pm: Concert / Panel: Crafting Sound

Tools are products of the societies that create them and are reflective of the gender and socio-political power structures inherent in these societies. In the Crafting Sound concert and panel discussion, we will turn a critical eye towards the technologies of sound, examining unspoken and unquestioned value systems inherent in these technologies. The program features artists who reclaim creative agency in their practice through intentional design of bespoke hybrid instruments and technologies, exploring how handicraft and technologies can engage new audiences and transform creative sound-making practices.

7pm: Concert
Patricia Cadavid | Knotting the memory//Encoding the Khipu_
Jess Rowland | Music for Bodyspace
Sam Topley | Punch Embroidery Study
Asha Tamirisa | RAVEL
Afroditi Psarra | Hums, Beeps and Squeaks

7:40pm Panel
Moderated by Abby Aresty and Rachel Gibson:
Patricia Cadavid, Afroditi Psarra, Jess Rowland, Asha Tamirisa, Samantha Topley

 

9-10pm: Performance/Demonstration: RE/SHFT/ER

Nick Hwang, Jeff Herriott, Eric Sheffield, Anna Wiesling, Anthony T. Marasco

RE/SHFT/ER will perform SHP of THSEUS, a remote collaborative audiovisual work with audience mobile participation and demonstrate Collab-Hub, the network messaging tool Hwang, Sheffield, and Marasco have been developing since the start of the pandemic. The demonstration will describe Collab-Hub, its ability to connect across varying creation tools, and how Collab-Hub was utilized for the SHP of THSEUS performance.

 

10-11pm: Installations “Gala” 

Tour of virtual installations on AltspaceVR platform
Brian Alexander | HVAC Sonification Project
The Einstein Collective: Sara Mast, Jessica Jellison, Christopher O’Leary, Cindy Stillwell, Jason Bolte, Charles Kankelborg, Nico Yunes, Joey Shapiro Key | Black (W)hole
Courtney Brown, Melanie Clemmons, Ira Greenberg, Brent Brimhall | Skin Hunger
Miles Friday | for loudspeakers, contact microphones, and motors
Akiko Hatakeyama | ちとせ ももとせ — chitose momotose
Simon Hutchinson and Paul Turowski | Rhythmcremental
Nate Krebs | all Your death belongs to us
Daniel McKemie, Ernesto Cárcamo Cavazos, Esteban Ruiz-Velasco | El movimiento en la quietud
Mark Micchelli | Roll ‘Em
Ted Moore, Katherine Balch | Aluminum Forest
Kory Reeder | Chimes
Margaret Schedel, Nick Hwang, Rob Cosgrove, Brian Smith | Rhumb-Line
Mark Vaughn | b i r d
Adam Vidiksis, Sam Wells | Translucent Cartography
Sam Wells | Four Winds
Additional works by Ruth Anderson and CIME composer colleagues

 

Saturday 4/24

9-9:30am: Coffee / Chat on Discord

 

9:30-11:00am: Paper Session II 

9:30-10: Michael Boyd, Electro-acoustic Confessional: Confronting One’s Artistic Past
10-10:30: Taylor Brook, Scuffed Computer Improviser: Aesthetics of Imprecision in an Artificial Intelligence Musical Improvisation
10:30-11: Daniel McKemie, Control Surfaces: Using the Commodore 64 and Analog Synthesizer to Expand Musical Boundaries

 

11-12pm: S21 Concert 01

Jean-Francois Charles | Petrified
     Will Yager — double bass
Anna Elder & Brian Riordan | Succubus
     Anna Elder — soprano
     Brian Riordan — composer
John Akins | Cymbalindrome II
Hubert Howe | Broken Glass
     Hubert Howe — composition
     Lisa Naugle — choreography
     John Crawford — videography
Jeffrey Stolet | Caminos Terribles, Desiertos Crueles
Becky Brown | dark parts
Miles Friday | Chain Blossoms

 

12-1pm: S21 Concert 02

Jeremy Wexler | Choose your identity provider — ASCAP 2021 Finalist
Jee Won Kim | Mneme
Christopher Poovey | Forged Effervescence
Andrew Walters | Noise to Signal
Christopher Biggs | Imprints in Time
     Noa Even — saxophone
Nina C. Young & Yuliya Lanina : Always and Forever
     Nina C. Young — music
     Yuliya Lanina — animation
Simon Hutchinson | Hiraizumi Memories

 

1-2:30pm: Panel: Digital Equity: Teaching Electronic Music Online during a Pandemic

Jon Bellona, John Gibson, Simon Hutchison, Jeffrey Stolet, Chi Wang 

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed daunting challenges for educators around the world.  In this unprecedented environment, teachers of music technology have been confronted with very particular challenges and, in response, have developed technological and creative initiatives.  Three institutions of higher ed—University of Oregon, University of New Haven, and University of Indiana—will present case studies that describe the problems faced, and the solutions deployed, at each of the three schools. The presentation will be followed by a live open discussion, with questions taken from the audience.

 

2:30-3:30pm: S21 Concert 03

Anthony Marasco | The Spinning Earth Shall Spread Before You
Nicolas Chuaqui | Liminal X
Greg Dixon | SubRay
Brian Belet | Sea Lion Mix
Ruppenthal | Post-Apocalyptic Biscuit
Alecto | Cathedral of Particles
Jon Christopher Nelson | and sometimes wind from the south

 

3:30-5pm: Concert: Switch~ Ensemble

Chris Chandler | Strata
     for contrabass clarinet, percussion, violin, and cello
Anuj Bhutani | To The Lighthouse
     for violin and live electronics
Ted Moore | frame
     for flute, cello, percussion, and piano
video processing by Ted Moore
Eren Gümrükçüoğlu | Pareidolia (2019) – Section V
     for cello, percussion, piano, and electronics
Annea Lockwood | Jitterbug
     for open instrumentation — bass flute, contrabass clarinet, and tape
Zachary James Watkins | Do Your Best Never Say Can’t and Love One Another
     for flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, cello, piano, percussion, and electronics

 

5-6pm: S21 Concert 04

Ben Luca Robertson | Artemisia #34-53
     Ben Robertson — composition, actuated instruments, electronics
Science Ficta Viola Da Gamba Ensemble
Garrison Gerard | Reflections of a Sea Bean
Esther Deng | Prisoner of time
Maggi Payne | Heat Shield
João Pedro Oliveira | Kontrol
     Ivan Manzanilla — virtual percussion
Robert McClure | syn
Nathaniel Haering | to facilitate friction — ASCAP / SEAMUS 1st Prize Commission, 2019

 

6-7pm: S21 Concert 05

Zouning Liao | Water, Bowls and Rocks — ASCAP 2021 Finalist
Paul Oehlers | Flux Hammer
Doug Bielmeier | St. Martin’s Summer
Timothy Moyers | Recycled Linoleum
Juan Carlos Vasquez | Channel Zero
Scott Barton | Mechanophore
Chi Wang | Action-Reaction

 

7-8:30pm: SEAMUS 2020 Award Winner Annea Lockwood 

Keynote and concert presentation with Tara Rodgers

Annea Lockwood | Buoyant (2013) & Wild Energy (2014)

 

9-10pm: Concert: Georgia Southern University: Barely there–A concert of quiet music.

Sean Peuquet | Plane of Slight Elevation
     Diane Kessel — flute
     Francisco Corthey — violin
     Russell Brown — bass clarinet
     John Thompson — electric guitar
Leah Reid | Crumbs
     Matt Fallin — percussion
Linda Antas | Still Shining
Daniel Fishkin | Masking Songs
     Tyler Roquemore — vibraphone
     Tom Pearsall — piano 1
     Jarrett Thompson — piano 2
     Francisco Corthey — cello
     Russell Brown — bass clarinet
     John Thompson — conductor
Eli Fieldsteel and Kerrith Livengood | Sonic Crumbs
Holland Hopson | Follows from Hummingbird
     Andrew Grabowska — Seaboard
     Ryan Devens — Moog Prodigy
     Francisco Corthey — violin
     Jarrett Thompson — EML-200
     Alex Ferre — trombone

 

10-11pm: Concert: Oberlin Synthesizer Ensemble (OSE) 

The Oberlin Synthesizer Ensemble is a semi-regular student ensemble that is made of students in the TIMARA department at Oberlin Conservatory. The ensemble changes in members and interests change from year to year, but consistently focuses on performing and improvising with the department’s unique collection of largely analog synthesizers collected from the last 50 years. This iteration features Will Bertrand, Autumn Culp, Jack Hamill, and Drew Smith, and is being coached by Tom Lopez. 

Abby Aresty in collaboration with Drew Smith and Jack Hamill | Oberlin’s Miscellaneous Electronic bits
Alex Christie | mouthfeels (iii)
Kittie Cooper | SUPERLATIVES
Ayla Cosnett | Communion
Joo Won Park | On Off Fade

 

11pm-12am: S21 Concert 06

Ryan Maguire and A.D. Carson | Maybe Metaphors Are Easier
     A.D. Carson — voice
     Ryan Maguire — electronics
Linda Jankowska, Kera MacKenzie, & Katherine Young | boundarymind, Movement 3
     Linda Jankowska and Katherine Young — conception & music
     Kera MacKenzie — videography
Hunter Brown | False Translations — ASCAP 2021 Finalist
Jon Fielder | Think
Mark Eden | Mies
Douglas McCausland | Convergence — ASCAP 2021 Finalist
     Aleksander Gabryś — double bass
Courtney Brown | Lament: An Interactive Cabaret Song

 

Sunday 4/25

9-9:30am: Coffee / Chat on Discord

 

9:30-11:30am Paper Session III

9:30-10: Andrew Davis, Integrating SuperCollider with Jupyter Notebook
10-10:30: Kel Smith and B.G. Madden, Co-Process: An Artistic and Musical Collaboration
10:30-11: Michael Lukaszuk Code, Sound and Power: A New Music Pedagogy Through Computer Music Improvisation
11-11:30: Jon Christopher Nelson, Plugin Development using Csound within the Cabbage Framework

 

11:30am-12:30pm: S21 Concert 07

Zach Howarth | Algor (Or, Their Space, Our Star)
Alex Tedrow | Biff — Allen Strange Award 2021
     Jake Simons — saxophone
Eric Lyon | The Man with the Golden Arm
     Alan Weinstein — cello
Kyong Mee Choi | Until Heard
     Lawrence Axelrod — piano
Rachel Gibson | Skyscapes // The Night Shines for You — Allen Strange Award 2020
Kristopher Bendrick | Black Tea

 

12:30-1:30pm: S21 Concert 08

Tom Baker | Traces: Sarah
     Melissa Achten — harp
Stewart Engart | Sublimation
Rodney DuPlessis | Coacervate
Daniel Swilley | SlipGrid
Michael Rhoades | Inside the Crimson Castle — An Escher Multiverse
David Gedosh | Architecture of a Dream
the Higgs whatever (Kerry Hagan & Miller Puckette) | All You Need Is Lunch

 

1:30-3:15pm: DEI Panel 

Suzanne Thorpe, Sabrina Peña Young, Erin Busch, Adam Vidiksis, Silen Wellington

Cultivating a diverse and inclusive field of electroacoustic music practices has been one of the central focuses for SEAMUS in recent years. The past year of 2020 has highlighted and brought forward, locally and globally, the many systemic inequalities embedded within the human society, and prompted many discussions in regards to combating these issues as one sees in their immediate community. The 2021 Conference provides an unique opportunity for our own community to gather virtually to discuss some of the collective actionables we can initiate to bring about changes.

 

3:15-4:30pm: SEAMUS Members Meeting and Awards

 

5-6pm: S21 Concert 09

Taylor Brook | Rhymes
Ryan Olivier | Will to Unite
Fang Wan | Double Shadows
Kyle Shaw | Tamboo
     Daniel Edwards — percussion
Joshua Tomlinson | Ringlets
     Rebecca Levy — choreography
Andrew Smith | Inquietude
Ralph Lewis | MoxTube
     Ralph Lewis — composer
     Elisabeth Stimpert — clarinet
     University of Central Missouri Clarinet Ensemble
     Isaac Bickmore, UCM’s Intro to Music Education Class, and DuoBunch — laptops
     Robin Meiksins — video

 

6-7:30pm: Concert: University of North Texas CEMI and Nova Ensemble

Panayiotis Kokoras | Morphallaxis
     Elizabeth McNutt — flute
     West Fox — percussion
     Kourtney Newton — cello
Patrick Reed | Surge
     Austin Richardson — trombone
Kory Reeder | If the thought evaporates
     Connor Simmons — double bass
     Kory Reeder — double bass
     Brian Do — bass clarinet
     Kathy Crabtree — violin
     Michael Moore — viola
     Alaina Clarice — flute
     Kourtney Newton — cello
Mengmeng Wang | Formulas
     Brian Do — clarinet
Steven Kemper | Boyle Heights
     Robert Chapman — marimba
Diogo Carvalho (Audio samples recorded by Brendan Catalano) | Reveal
     Jake Thiede — alto sax
Willyn Whiting | White Sky Over the Lake
     West Fox — percussion
     Chin Ting Chan | Fuse II
     Kory Reeder — no-input mixer / electronics design
     Aleyan Brown — flute / electronics design
     Liz Fleissner — oboe / electronics design
     Connor Simmons — double bass / electronics design
     Jessica Stearns — saxophone / electronics design

 

7:30-8:30pm: S21 Concert 10

Christopher Luna-Mega | Forestcover—Sonification of Deforestation Predictions Contributing to 4ºC Warming by 2100
Devin Maxwell | PH 12
     Maya Miro Johnson — violin
Neil Rolnick | Messages
     Julia Bengtsson — choreography
Chace Williams | Hydrangea
     Austin Windau — videography
Andrew Davis | Pastoral
Anna Lindemann | Ant Songs
   Lucy Fitz Gibbon – soprano
   Ryan MacEvoy McCullough – keyboard

 

8:30-9:45pm: Concert: Temple University: Futuring the Past

10-11pm: S21 Concert 11

Elliott Lupp | Erase-Repeat — ASCAP / SEAMUS 2nd Prize Commission, 2019
     MOUTHS: Kristopher Bendrick & Elliott Lupp — electronics
Eric Zurbin | Evening’s Wave / Inner Noise
     Chia-Ying Chan — piano
Zach Thomas | branch-splinter-moss
Southeast of Rain 东南有雨 | Day 8: Between Fleeting Somethings
Charles Nichols | Time Garden: dawn replica
     Charles Nichols — music
     Zach Duer — visualization
     Scotty Hardwig — movement performance & choreography
David Nguyen | Whale Song Stranding — ASCAP / SEAMUS 2nd Prize Commission, 2020

 

11pm-12am: S21 Concert 12

Iddo Aharony | breathwatersoundcannon
     Iddo Aharony — composition and electronics
     Arom Choi — video
     Shanna Pranaitis — bass flute
     Layli Long Soldier — text and recorded voice
     Mónica Sanchez — performance
Michele Cheng | Doyennes’ Diaries
Dana Jessen & Eli Stine | through a fragile traverse
     Dana Jessen — composition, bassoon
     Eli Stine — video

 

Sponsors

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
University of Oregon School of Music and Dance
Roosevelt’s Chicago College of Performing Arts
Temple University
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Virginia Department of Music

Genelec
Keith McMillen Instruments
Sweetwater

 

Conference Committee

S21 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Ted Coffey
Brooks Frederickson
Dave Gedosh
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh
Steven Kemper
Adam Vidiksis

S21 ASSOCIATE TECHNICAL DIRECTORS
Alex Christie
Omar Fraire
Andrew Litts
Julie McLaughlin
Jonah Pfluger
Lex Simakas
Juan Carlos Vasquez
Matias Vilaplana-Stark
Eli Wilson

S21 RESEARCH COORDINATOR
Luke Dahl

SEAMUS WEB ADMINISTRATOR
Joo Won Park