Program will be streamed at https://www.facebook.com/SPLICEorg/live_videos/
Talks 2
4:30-4:50pm
Dan VanHassel
Best Practices for Combining Acoustic Instruments and Electronics
4:50-5:10pm
Robin Meiksins
Long Form YouTube Projects
5:10-5:30pm
Kaitlin Pet
Interactive Score-Following with the Informatics Philharmonic
SPLICE Festival IV is supported by a State-of-the-Art Conference Grant from the Office of the Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost.
Notes
Best Practices for Combining Acoustic Instruments and Electronics A discussion of best practices for the diffusion for works with live acoustic instruments and electronic sound in a concert setting, including technical, psychological, and artistic concerns. back to programLong Form YouTube Projects
Flutist Robin Meiksins discusses her long form YouTube projects including 52 Weeks of Flute. How does one go about formulating the concept of these projects, why YouTube, how do you create engagement, and why do these types of projects.
Interactive Score-Following with the Informatics Philharmonic
The Informatics Philharmonic is a music performance system developed by Chris Raphael at Indiana University that uses interactive score-following to make pre-recorded audio follow a live player. Using this system, performers can speed up and slow down as they please, bringing the composition to life in a spontaneous and personal way. Info Phil has the potential to serve as a basis for works for live acoustic instrument and interactive electronica that could record, process, harmonize, mix, and distort the soloist’s audio in real time. We will discuss the Informatics Philharmonic’s potential applications in electroacoustic music and will do a live demo if circumstances allow. back to program
Bios
The music of composer and multi-instrumentalist Dan VanHassel has been described as “energizing” (Wall Street Journal), “an imaginative and rewarding soundscape” (SF Classical Voice) and “funky machine music” (SF Chronicle). Recent performances include the Gaudeamus Festival, MATA Festival, Shanghai Electronic Music Week, and the Bang on a Can Summer Festival. He has received grants from Chamber Music America, the Barlow Endowment, the Boston Foundation, and New Music USA. Dan is artistic director and electric guitarist with the Hinge Ensemble, and was a founding member of Wild Rumpus. Currently living in Boston, Dan has degrees from UC Berkeley, New England Conservatory, and Carnegie Mellon University. back to programRobin Meiksins is a freelance contemporary flutist focused on collaboration with living composers. Chicago-based, she uses the Internet and online media to support and create collaboration. In 2017, Robin completed her first year-long collaborative project, 365 Days of Flute. Each day featured a different work; each video was recorded and posted the same day. In 2018, Robin launched the 52 Weeks of Flute Project. Each week features different living composer to workshop a submitted work, culminating in a performance on YouTube. Robin has premiered over 100 works and has performed at SPLICE Institute, the SEAMUS national conference, and Oh My Ears New Music Festival 2018, she was a guest artist at University of Illinois for their first annual ’24-Hour Compose-a-thon.’ Robin holds a masters degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music where she studied with Kate Lukas and Thomas Robertello. back to program
Kaitlin Pet is an Informatics PhD student at the Indiana University Luddy School of Informatics, Computer Science and Engineering. She holds a BA in Biology and Computer Science from Columbia University and a GPD from the Hartt School in Oboe Performance, where she concentrated on chamber performance. Kaitlin is passionate about new music and has performed in multiple venues with the Hartt’s Foot in the Door contemporary ensemble, including the 2019 CBDNA conference at Arizona State University. back to program