SPLICE Festival VI 2025 Workshop 1
Friday January 24, 2025
4:30-5:30pm EDT
Dalton Lecture Hall D1110, Western Michigan University
NOTE: Rachel Devorah Rome's workshop has been cancelled and will be replaced with the following workshop.
Please note new start time: 4:30.
Per Bloland
Computer Assisted Orchestration with Orchidea/MaxOrch
Orchidea is collection of Max objects designed for computer-assisted orchestration. Users select a set of instruments and a target audio file, and Orchidea attempts to match the spectral chacteristics of the target file with the designated instruments. The result is a sample-based audio file and a notated score.
These objects are incredibly powerful and feature-rich, but the learning curve is a bit steep. MaxOrch provides an interface to make the features easier to access and offer detailed explanations about their implementation.
This workshop includes an overview of the Orchidea ecosystem and a tutorial on the use of MaxOrch.
To install MaxOrch, please visit the MaxOrch page. It is recommended that you install the standalone - it's just easier to do!
Bio
Per Bloland is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music whose works have been praised by the New York Times as “lush, caustic,” and “irresistible.” His compositions range from intimate solo pieces to works for large orchestra, and incorporate video, dance, and custom-built electronics. He has received awards and recognition from organizations including IRCAM, ICMA, SEAMUS/ASCAP, the Ohio Arts Council, Digital Art Awards of Tokyo, ISCM, the Martirano Competition, and SCI/ASCAP. His first opera, Pedr Solis, commissioned and premiered by Guerilla Opera in 2015, received rave reviews from the Boston Globe and the Boston Classical Review. He has received commissions from Unheard-of//Ensemble, loadbang, Keith Kirchoff, Wild Rumpus, the Ecce Ensemble, Ensemble Pi, the Callithumpian Consort, Stanford’s CCRMA, SEAMUS/ASCAP, the Kenners, Michael Straus and Patti Cudd. His music can be heard on the TauKay (Italy), Capstone, Spektral, and SEAMUS labels, and through the MIT Press. A portrait CD of his work, performed by Ecce Ensemble, is available on Tzadik.
Bloland is the co-creator of the Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano, about which he has given numerous lecture/demonstrations and published a paper. In 2013 he completed a five-month Musical Research Residency at IRCAM in Paris, and is currently in the midst of a second multi-segment residency there. He is an Associate Professor of Composition and Technology, and coordinator of the Composition and Music Technology areas at Miami University, Ohio. He is also a founding composition faculty member at the SPLICE Institute, and recently established the Composition program at the Montecito International Music Festival. He received his D.M.A. in composition from Stanford University and his M.M. from the University of Texas at Austin.
Scores may be purchased at www.babelscores.com/perbloland For more information visit: www.perbloland.com