5:00pm EDT
Multimedia Room, Western Michigan University
Livestream simulcast on SPLICE YouTube (unique link)
Panelists:
Chi Wang
Eli Stine
João Pedro Oliveira
Marion Ramírez
Moderator:
Bios:
Chi Wang is a composer and performer. Her research and compositional interests include sound design, data-driven instruments creation, and musical composition and performance. Wang’s compositions have been performed internationally, including presentations at the International Computer Music Conference (2015-18), Musicacoustica–Beijing (2011-17), the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States national conferences (2015, 2017, 2018), the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2017), Kyma International Sound Symposia (2012-16, 2018), Future Music Oregon Concerts (2009-11, 2014-18), Portland Biennial of Contemporary Art (2016), I. Paderewski Conservatory of Music in Poland (2015), International Confederation of Electro-Acoustic Music (2014), and WOCMAT in Taiwan (2013). Wang earned her D.M.A. and M.Mus. degrees from the University of Oregon, and a B.E. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Ocean University of China.back to program
Eli Stine is a composer, programmer, and educator. Stine is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Oberlin Conservatory. Stine received Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Composition and Computer Technologies as a Jefferson Fellow at the University of Virginia and bachelor’s degrees in Technology In Music And Related Arts and Computer Science from Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory.
Stine's work explores electroacoustic sound, multimedia technologies (often custom-built software, video projection, and multi-channel speaker systems), and collaboration between disciplines (artistic and otherwise). This work has been mentioned in publications including USA Today, The Economist, and on NPR. Stine performed electronics on celebrated composer George Lewis’ 2021 album The Recombinant Trilogy, which was reviewed in the New York Times, on I Care If You Listen, in The Wire, and in February 2021’s Best of Bandcamp.
Festivals and conferences that have programmed Stine's work include ICMC, SEAMUS, NIME, CMMR, NYCEMF, the Third Practice, Studio 300, and Threshold festivals, CubeFest, the Muestra Internacional de Música Electroacústica, the International Sound Art Festival Berlin, the New Music Gathering, and Bang on a Can’s LOUD Weekend. Residencies attended include the Stanford Music Information Retrieval Workshop, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Banff Centre, Harvestworks, Prague Film School, the Spatial Music Workshop, and Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras. His research has been presented and published internationally in the proceedings of the Sound & Music Computing Conference, International Symposium on Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research, International Computer Music Conference, Sounding Out The Space Conference, the Workshop on Intelligent Music Interfaces for Listening and Creation, and the International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design.
Stine’s film sound design has been heard by over a million people in The Amerikans web series and his sound design for the virtual reality installation VRWandlung, a VR adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, toured around the world during 2018-2019, with installation locations including Prague, Berlin, Madrid, Cairo, Oslo, and Tokyo. Currently, Stine is working on several VR sound design projects in addition to composing immersive spatial audio.
In his free time, Stine enjoys exercising, making video and audio recordings, learning different electronic musics, and reading.
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Composer João Pedro Oliveira holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition for the University of California at Santa Barbara. He studied organ performance, composition and architecture in Lisbon. He completed a PhD in Music at the University of New York at Stony Brook. His music includes opera, orchestral compositions, chamber music, electroacoustic music and experimental video. He has received over 70 international prizes and awards for his works, including three Prizes at Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition, the prestigious Magisterium Prize and Giga-Hertz Special Award, 1st Prize in Metamorphoses competition, 1st Prize in Yamaha-Visiones Sonoras Competition, 1st Prize in Musica Nova competition. He taught at Aveiro University (Portugal) and Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). His publications include several articles in journals and a book on 20th century music theory.
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Puerto Rican dance artist, Marion Ramírez, is dedicated to the art of improvisation as a tool for experiencing bodily agency and empathy. She holds a B.F.A. from The Laban Center London and an M.F.A. at Temple University. Throughout her career as a performer she has toured across Europe, South Korea, Puerto Rico, Cuba and the U.S. Her choreographic work has been presented at Philadelphia Museum of Art as part of a commission for The Fathering Circle, a community arts project. She was also awarded Reflection: Response Choreographic Commission to make a multi-disciplinary project kNots and Nests with faculty and students from the visual arts, music and dance departments at Temple University, performing site-specific work around the campus.
Since 2003, she has been immersed in the practice and pedagogy of somatics, art making and improvisational dance. She is certified as a Dynamic EmbodimentTM practitioner doing Somatic Movement Therapy. She founded and directs caracola—somatic movement teaching platform. She facilitates movement sessions online and in person for family members of all ages and mentors new teachers in the field. Currently, she is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Denison University in Ohio, teaching Latinx Movement Forms: Dances of Resistance, Contact Improvisation and Contemporary Dance. She has served as Adjunct Faculty at Temple University, Drexel University, University of the Arts as well as numerous international festivals in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Germany, and the U.S.
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Adam Vidiksis is a drummer and composer based in Philadelphia who explores social structures, science, and the intersection of humankind with the machines we build. His music examines technological systems as artifacts of human culture, acutely revealed in the slippery area where these spaces meet and overlap—a place of friction, growth, and decay. Critics have called his music “mesmerizing”, “dramatic”, “striking” (Philadelphia Weekly), “notable”, “catchy” (WQHS), “magical” (Local Arts Live), and “special” (Percussive Notes), and have noted that Vidiksis provides “an electronically produced frame giving each sound such a deep-colored radiance you could miss the piece's shape for being caught up in each moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer). His work is frequently commissioned and performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia in recitals, festivals, and major academic conferences. Vidiksis’s music has won numerous awards and grants, including recognition from the Society of Composers, Inc., the American Composers Forum, New Music USA, NEA, Chamber Music America, and ASCAP. His works are available through HoneyRock Publishing, EMPiRE, New Focus, PARMA Ravello, Fuzzy Panda, Scarp, and SEAMUS Records. Vidiksis recently served as composer in residence for the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and was selected by the Japan-US Friendship Commission to serve as a Nichi Bei Collaborator Artist during the 2020 Olympics in Japan. Vidiksis is Assistant Professor of music technology at Temple University, President and founding member of SPLICE Music. He performs in SPLICE Ensemble and the Miller-Vidiksis-Wells trio, conducts Ensemble N_JP, and directs the Temple Composers Orchestra and BEEP.
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