SPLICE Festival VI 2025 Lectures 1
Friday January 24, 2025
2:00-3:00pm EDT
Dalton Lecture Hall D1110, Western Michigan University
Stephanie Vasko
Putting the Wave in Waveform: Incorporating the Power and Sound of Water in Electronic Music
While field recordings of water are often incorporated into electronic music compositions, there are a multitude of ways to use water to create movement, sound, and visual interest in performances. This talk will cover techniques including field recording (above/on/underwater), hydropowering equipment, and incorporating water in various states into live performances. This talk will also feature a live demonstration of combining tape loops and ice.
Duo Cataclysma
Enter Agency: Interagency and Intra-action
In this presentation Duo Cataclysma (Jeff Kaiser and Seth Andrew Davis) introduce the technological, theoretical and historical underpinnings of their creative practice. Moving through ideas of technological and human relationships, the agency of technology and the environment, and they will also discuss and demo the various softwares they have authored and will be performing with that grew out of these ideas. For more information: https://jeffkaiser.com/duocat
Bios
Dr. Stephanie E. Vasko (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist who works with sound, electronics, sculpture, software, video, performance, coding, and photography. A tinkerer and experimentalist at heart, her work uses combinations of vintage and current technologies, instruments, and techniques to warp perceptions, play with the distinction between natural and built spaces, and explore embodied experiences. She performs online and in-person, most recently, as part of Sound Scene 2024 at the Hirshhorn Museum, and has participated in solo and collaborative residencies. Dr. Vasko is the co-founder of the bimonthly Ambient Annotations experimental music series in Lansing, MI. You can find out more about her at http://www.stephanievasko.com or on Instagram at @stephanievaskostudio.
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Duo Cataclysma is the electro-acoustic duo of Jeff Kaiser (trumpet, flugelhorn, and laptop/electronics) and Seth Andrew Davis (electric guitar, laptop/electronics). The group focuses on improvisation and interactive electronics with live signal processing and virtual/artificial/robot agents. The group is heavily influenced by American free jazz, European free Improvisation, and Electro-Acoustic free improvisation traditions. back to program