Public Panel on AI in Music
Wednesday June 24, 2026
5:00pm EDT
Multimedia Room, Western Michigan University
Livestream simulcast on SPLICE YouTube (unique link)
Panel Discussion : Generative Music and AI
Panelists:
Chris Biggs
Per Bloland
Becky Brown
Levy Lorenzo
Erik Souther
Moderator:
Generative Music and AI
Panel description goes here...
Bios:
Christopher Biggs is a composer, electronic music performer, and multimedia artist residing in Kalamazoo, MI, where he is Associate Professor of Music Composition and Technology at Western Michigan University. Biggs’ recent projects focus on developing and performing a live electronic music system for both in-person and networked performances.
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.” Bloland has received awards and recognition from numerous organizations, national and international, and commissions from a whole bunch of amazing ensembles. Performers of Bloland’s music include even more terrific ensembles and performers. His opera, Pedr Solis, was premiered by Guerilla Opera in 2015. His first portrait CD, Chamber Industrial, was performed by Ecce Ensemble and is available on Tzadik. His second, Shadows of the Electric Moon, is available on New Focus Records.
Bloland is the co-creator of the Electromagnetically-Prepared Piano. He has participated in two research residencies at IRCAM, both focused on this device. His second residency marked the launch of the CAPSICUM project, a joint venture across multiple institutions. He is a Professor of Composition and Technology, and coordinator of the Composition area at Miami University, Ohio. He is also a founding board member of the SPLICE Institute. He received his D.M.A. in composition from Stanford University and his M.M. from the University of Texas.
Becky Brown is a composer, harpist, artist, and web designer, interested in producing intensely personal works across the multimedia spectrum. She focuses on narrative, emotional exposure, and catharsis, with a vested interest in using technology and the voice to deeply connect with an audience, wherever they are. She is the Technical Director of SPLICE Institute, Director of the Incurable Caravan's Online Car Show, and is currently pursuing graduate studies in Composition and Computer Technologies at the University of Virginia.
Born in Bucharest, Filipino-American Levy Marcel Ingles Lorenzo, Jr. works at the intersection of music, art, and technology. On an international scale, his body of work spans electronics design, sound engineering, instrument building, installation art, improvisation, and percussion performance. With a primary focus on inventing new instruments, he prototypes, composes, and performs new electronic music.
As an art consultant, Levy designs interactive electronics ranging from small sculptures to large-scale public art installations with artists such as Alvin Lucier, Christine Sun Kim, Ligorano/Reese, Autumn Knight, and Leo Villareal. As a musician, he has worked with artists such as Peter Evans, Tyshawn Sorey, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Ryuichi Sakamoto, George Lewis, Henry Threadgill, and Claire Chase. As a sound engineer, he is in demand as a specialist in the realization of complete electroacoustic concerts with nontraditional configurations.
A core member of the acclaimed International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), he fulfills multiple roles as percussionist, electronics performer, and sound engineer. His work has been featured at IRCAM, STEIM, REWIRE, MIT Media Lab, Harvestworks, Banff Centre, The Hermitage, Harvard University, G4TV, Grey Group, Bose, Amazon Studios, BBC, The New York Times, and Burning Man. In 2022, he made his debut as an electronic concerto soloist with the New York Philharmonic. More recently, he has had multiple engagements at Carnegie Hall as a soloist, technologist, curator, and composer.
Levy earned a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Percussion Performance from Stony Brook University. He has presented numerous workshops and lectures on electronic musical instrument design and performance practice. Dr. Lorenzo holds a position as Professor of Creative Technologies at The New School College of Performing Arts, where he directs the Nstrument Lab.
Eric Souther (b.1987, Kansas City) holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, and an BFA in New Media from the Kansas City Art Institute.
His creative research draws from a multiplicity of disciplines, including new materialism, anthropology, ritual, deep time, and toolmaking. These areas are read through one another and coalesce in technological assemblages that form emergent systems or software for exploring relations. I instrumentalize these systems so that they can become performative ways to navigate unexpected images/meaning making. My work takes many pathways, which include interactive installation, audio-visual performance,single-channel video, and software.
His work has been featured nationally and internationally at venues such as the Museum of Art and Design, NYC, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, and the Museum of Art, Zhangzhou, China. His work has screened in The Athens Digital Arts Festival, Athens, Greece, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Beyoglu, Instanbul, Cronosfera Festival, Alessandria, Italy, the Galerija 12 New Media Hub, Belgrade, Serbia, the Simultan Festival, Timisoara, Romania, and the Festival ECRÃ of Audiovisual Experimentations, Rio de Janeiro. Souther is an Assistant Professor of Kinetic Imaging in the Gwen Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University.
Adam Vidiksis is an American drummer, composer, and music technologist whose work explores the entanglement of humanity with the machines we build. Based in Philadelphia & Delaware, he serves as Associate Professor and Director of Music Technology & Composition, as well as the Center for Music Innovation & Creativity, at Temple University. His compositions have received support from organizations such as the National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission, the American Composers Forum, and the Delaware Division of the Arts. He is President of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) and Past President and Director of Ensemble Activities for SPLICE. He performs with SPLICE Ensemble, Aeroidio, and the Miller/Vidiksis/Wells trio, and serves as conductor for Network for New Music. A dedicated champion of new work, he has premiered hundreds of compositions by artists from around the world, continually seeking meaning through sound, technology, and human connection.
www.vidiksis.com