Participant Concert 4
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2022 composer and performer participants.
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2022 composer and performer participants.
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2022 composer and performer participants.
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2022 composer and performer participants.
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2023 composer and performer participants.
Public presentation by featured guest Vicki Ray
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE faculty and guests.
Roderick Coover
Aurie Hsu
Erin Rogers
Dennis Sullivan
Aurie’s works have been performed by the Da Capo Chamber Players, Relâche, NOW ensemble, and the Talujon Percussion Quartet among others. Her works have been presented around the U.S. at ICMC, SEAMUS, SIGCHI, Pixelerations, Third Practice Festival, Acoustica 21, and abroad at the Logos Tetrahedron Concert Hall (Belgium) and the Cite International des Arts (France). In 2010, Aurie won the International Computer Music Association (ICMA) Student Award for Best Submission for Shadows no. 5, part of a series of pieces for modern-tribal belly dancer, electroacoustic music, and RAKS (Remote electroAcoustic Kinesthetic Sensing) system. The RAKS system is a wireless sensor interface designed specifically for belly dance in collaboration with composer Steven Kemper.
As a pianist, Aurie has premiered many pieces including works by Peter Swendsen, Maggi Payne, and Ted Coffey. Sarah Cahill of the San Francisco Classical Voice has described Aurie’s playing as “incendiary” and having “dazzled the audience.” Aurie is a former member of Fire in the Belly Dance Co. (2005-2012), the only professional contemporary belly dance company in central Virginia and completed Rachel Brice's 8 Elements(TM) Phase 1: Initiation with Recognition in 2015. Aurie has taught at the University of San Diego and the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Aurie is currently Assistant Professor of Computer Music and Digital Arts at the Oberlin Conservatory.
back to program
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Dennis Sullivan, percussion
Wednesday June 29, 2022
7:30pm EDT
Dalton Recital Hall, Western Michigan University
Livestream simulcast on SPLICE YouTube (unique link)
download program pdf (does not include notes/bios)
Dennis Sullivan : Prelude to Substructure (2021)
Kittie Cooper : Edgewise (2020)
Erin Rogers : Basket Case (2021)
Varun Kishore : this used to be something else (II) (2023)
Ess Whiteley : inter[ ARE] (2023 - world premier)
Popebama : Remote Cipher (2023 - world premier)
edgewise engages with the relationship between humans and space in the documentation of EVPs, as well as the power dynamics at play when humans seek to project meaning onto sound and space. This piece creates an environment in which humans, recordings, and spaces struggle to be heard amidst conflicting modes of communication and interpretation.
back to program
Kittie’s music has been commissioned and performed by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Ensemble Dal Niente, Splinter Reeds, Popebama, and Warp Trio. She serves as Director of Composers Forums and Faculty for The Walden School Young Musicians Program. They hold a BM from Northwestern University in music education and guitar performance, and an MEd in teaching students with visual impairments from George Mason University. They are currently working toward an MFA in interdisciplinary arts at Simon Fraser University. They also like ghost stories, chili, and cats.
You can find more information and documentation of Kittie’s work at kittiecooper.com.
back to program
They have toured Europe, the UK, and North America with various bands, had their music featured on publications like Pitchfork and The Wire and released labels like Not Not Fun, 99Chants, Topshelf Records, and Touchtheplants. Their work has been performed at the MATA Festival (NYC), Dublin Music Current Festival (Dublin, Ireland), MA/IN Matera Intermedia Festival (Matera, Italy) [Honorary Mention Award], SEAMUS National Conference (NYC), WOCMAT 關於 (Hschinchu, Taiwan), Mise-en Festival (Brooklyn, NY), Echofluxx (Prague, CZ), Int-Act Festival (Bangkok, Thailand), Festival di Nuova Consonanza (Rome, Italy), N_SEME (Denton, TX), University of Pittsburgh Music & Erotics Conference (Pittsburgh, PA) and others.
S has held residencies at the I-Park Inc. Foundation Artist Residency, Dublin Sound Lab, and the Labo de Musique Contemporaine de Montréal. Their work, creative practice, and Deep Listening practice is heavily informed by the 2 years they spent studying Buddhism and practicing meditation intensively in residential monastic retreat at several different Zen Buddhist Monasteries in Oregon, the Bay Area, and New Mexico.
They received their BM in Composition from McGill University and are currently a PhD student in Composition at the University of California San Diego. Their mentors have included Melissa Hui, Philippe Leroux, Marcos Balter, Rand Steiger and Michelle Lou.
back to program
Public presentation by SPLICE faculty Elainie Lillios
Public presentation by SPLICE guests Popebama
Public presentation by SPLICE guests Popebama
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2022 composer and performer participants.
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2022 composer and performer participants.
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2022 composer and performer participants.
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE Institute 2022 composer and performer participants.
Concert performed by the SPLICE Ensemble.
Public presentation by featured guest Vicki Ray
Concert of compositions composed and performed by the SPLICE faculty and guests.
Public presentation by SPLICE faculty Elainie Lillios
Concert of compositions by João Pedro Oliveira.
Public presentation by SPLICE faculty Sam Wells
Concert performed by Vicki Ray and guests.
Public panel on
Concert of The Cottonwood Florilegium by Sam Wells.
Performed by SPLICE faculty.
Public presentation by featured composer João Pedro Oliveira.
Featuring Robin Meiksins, Alex Lough and Mark Micchelli, Anna Elder, Justin Massey, Carlos Cotallo Solares, Will Yager, Sarah Constant, and Wilson Poffenberger performing works by Matthew Jay Fountain, Teeth and Metals, Brian Riordan, Brian Topp, Carlos Cotallo Solares, Nathaniel Haering, Brittany J. Green, and Carolyn Borcherding.
Featuring SPLICE Ensemble, Stephen Marotto, Adam Vidiksis, and Sam Wells performing works by Per Bloland, Kunal Gala & Chris Ferree, Alex Christie, Adam Vidiksis, & Elsa Juste.
Featuring Keith Kirchoff, Sam Wells, Von Hansen, Adam Vidiksis, and Christopher Biggs performing works by Luigi Nono, Jeonghyeon Joo, Elainie Lillios, and Adam Vidiksis/Christopher Biggs.