SPLICE Ensemble Educational Programs

SPLICE Ensemble Residency

Student composers write new works for SPLICE Ensemble that will be featured on a concert at their institution. SPLICE Ensemble will work with composers in a reading session and two rehearsals. SPLICE will perform up to seventy minutes of new works. Ideally, the ensemble will visit the institution twice. First, for the reading session, and then return for the final rehearsals and concert.

SPLICE Ensemble Concert

SPLICE Ensemble will program and perform an evening-length concert of works from the Ensemble’s repertoire.

Reading Session

SPLICE Ensemble will read and workshop works by student composers in a two-hour reading session.

Master Classes and/or Private Lessons

Available to composition, performance, and technology students.

Improvisation Workshop

SPLICE Ensemble leads group improvisatory pieces, teaching skills in listening, spontaneous interaction, and how to musically improvise with electronics. 

Listening to the Silence

A participatory lecture-recital on musical mindfulness and the art of intentional listening. Featuring music and readings by John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, and Scott Miller.

Lectures

  • Virtuosity in Electronics explores our definition of virtuosity and the relationship of a performer to their electronic instrument. 

  • Musical Entrepreneurship shares methods for starting and sustaining a career in music in modern-day America.

  • Pedagogical Methodologies of the SPLICE Institute discusses the pedagogy of electroacoustic music education as employed by the SPLICE Organization.

  • Managing the Ensemble is a talk about the practical aspects of running a bi-coastal ensemble, including grant writing, arranging concerts, funding models, and rehearsal methods.

  • EA Composition: Best Practices is a talk designed for composition students with some experience working in electronics as we explore constructive methods for presenting electroacoustic compositions to performers.

  • Composition Aesthetics is a three-part lecture demonstration in which each member of the SPLICE Ensemble shares examples of their own compositions and aesthetic principles.

SPLICE Workshops

SPLICE Ensemble additionally offers workshops to add-on to the above package. The workshops are  based on the format of the annual summer SPLICE Institute and can cover a variety of requested topics for either performers or composers. Each summer at SPLICE Institute, faculty lead workshops covering a variety of topics from introductions to DAWs and Max to advanced digital signal processing. Faculty also lead performance workshops geared towards working with electronics without the aid of a composer or sound engineer.