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Talks 2
2:40-3:00pm
Margaret Schedel
From Logo to Logopenic
3:05-3:25pm
Skye van Duuren
Microtonality in Fixed-Medias
3:30-3:50pm
Christopher Chandler
Generative Sound File Player
3:55-4:15pm
Cecilia Suhr
I, You We: Exploring Potential Benefits and Challenges in Interactive Music Performance
Notes
From Logo to Logopenic Data sonification exists along a continuum of sound for the sake of data, to sound for the sake of music. In each case practitioners blend aesthetic and scientific data to create sonic material. In this talk I detail how a scientific project, sonifying nano materials, resulted in a scientific project in use at Brookhaven National Laboratories, a VR experience for a science museum, and a new piece of acoustic music premiering at this conference. I explain the algorithm behind this particular sonification, and the process of turning 10,000 audio samples into sound design and how I then turned those samples into a new music composition for string trio, horn and percussion. back to programMicrotonality in Fixed-Media I have written a piece of music in three movements, scored for an acoustic octet. This piece serves as a vehicle for demonstrating a method using pitch adjustment software to incorporate microtonal aspects into a fixed-media piece in which acoustic instruments, without any physical alteration or extended techniques, may accurately play pitches outside of the traditional twelve-tone chromatic scale in ways that add expressiveness and/or impart structural significance. The microtonal elements of this piece are incorporated via three primary techniques: linear inflections, controlled beating, and centstonic modulation. In this presentation, I describe in detail what each of these techniques entails, how they relate to and inform the piece, and outline one possible workflow for producing a recording of this piece which may in the future be applied to works with similar concepts. back to program
Generative Sound File Player
From These Old Roots (performed on Concert 4) was in part made using some software I've built in Max called the Generative Sound File Player, which is a compositional and performance tool for algorithmically creating sound. In this lecture presentation, I will be giving a brief technical overview of the functionality of the software and highlighting its unique features including sound segmentation, sequence and trigger modes, creating human-friendly instructions, and using Javascript for pre-processing. back to program
I, You We: Exploring Potential Benefits and Challenges in Interactive Music Performance
This talk explores the conceptual framework and inspiration behind “I, You, We,” which was created to celebrate one human race. The sound of the improvisational violin (pitch) performance instantaneously recreates colorful portraits of the audience members’ blurred faces. In doing so, this talk addresses the potential benefits and emerging challenges in the interactive music performance context--especially in blurring the boundaries between audience and performer." back to program
Bios
With an interdisciplinary career blending classical training, sound/audio data research, and innovative computational arts education, Margaret Anne Schedel transcends the boundaries of disparate fields to produce integrated work at the nexus of computation and the arts. She has a diverse creative output with works spanning interactive multimedia operas, virtual reality experiences, sound art, video games, and compositions for a wide variety of classical instruments and custom controllers and is internationally recognized for the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. As an Associate Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she serves as the co-director of computer music and leads the Making Sense of Data Workgroup at the Institute of Advanced Computational Science. She also teaches composition for new media at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University. She co-founded www.arts.codes, a platform and artist collective celebrating art with computational underpinnings. back to programSkye van Duuren is a trumpeter, composer, educator, arranger, transcriber, and music engraver. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, studying with Alan Siebert. Mr. van Duuren holds two Master of Music degrees from the University of Tennessee and a Bachelor of Music degree, summa cum laude, from The University of Arizona. Mr. van Duuren enjoys an active commission schedule as a composer and his repertoire includes over one hundred works for symphony orchestra, chamber ensembles, solo instrument, keyboard, and electronic media. His teachers of composition include Andrew Sigler, Jorge Variego, Daniel Asia, Alejandro Rutty, and Mark Engebretson. His compositions have been performed in concert halls, universities, and sacred venues in Greece, China, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, Arizona, and North Carolina. He is an active presenter and educator on subjects ranging from his own unique compositional innovations and theoretical writings to special performance topics. back to program
Christopher Chandler is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music and the co-founder and executive director of the [Switch~ Ensemble]. He serves as Assistant Professor of Music at Union College where he teaches courses in music theory, composition, and technology. He draws inspiration from nature, poetry, the acoustic properties of instruments, and his experiences working with sound in computer music studios. His work has been performed by leading ensembles including Eighth Blackbird, the American Wild Ensemble, the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne. His has received recognition and awards for his music including a BMI Student Composer Award, an ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission, two first prizes from the Austin Peay State University Young Composer's Award, and the Nadia Boulanger Composition Prize from the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau, France. Christopher holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Bowling Green State University, and the University of Richmond. back to program
Cecilia Suhr is an award winning interdisciplinary artist and researcher, multi-instrumentalist (violin/cello/voice/piano), author, performer, and improviser, who is working at the intersection between art, music, sound design, and digital technology. Her work has been showcased and performed in various galleries, festivals, biennials, conferences and museums nationally and internationally in venues such as Nice Acropolis Convention Centre, Nice, France (upcoming), Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, NY, NY, CICA Museum, Gimpo, Korea, IANG Gallery, NamSeoul University, Seoul, Korea, Pylaia- Hortiati Municipal Conservatory, Thessaloniki, Greece, Center for Collaborative Arts and Media at Yale University, Pensacola Museum of Art, West Florida, Outside the Box 4, A Biennial of Outdoor Site-Specific Arts and Performance at Whitespace, West Palm Beach, Kimmel Gallery at New York University, (NY, NY), Venice Art House, Venice Italy, NIW Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, House Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, Moscow Russia, Hill Center Galleries, Washington, D.C., Scholes Street Studio, Brooklyn, NY, etc. back to program