This new work for mixed ensemble will be premiered on April 15th at 6 PM at UT. I’m very excited about this project!
Small big band (live version – Conductor: Michael Douty 4/15/16)
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Nicole Chamberlain premieres “Minute flute” for solo bass flute
To close out the SoundNOW festival, Terminus Ensemble invites you to join us for a unique program of 1-minute solo miniatures by 20 composers from the southeastern US. We are joined by Boston-based duo Transient Canvas (bass clarinet + marimba), who will be performing new works by Georgia-based composers, including Sarah Hersh, Peter Van Zandt Lane, and Brent Milam.
Transient Canvas set:
Rationalize (2016) — Cody Brookshire
ripples (2015) — Adam Scott Neal
[Title tbd] (2016) — Brent Milam
Your Mind is a Maze of Mystery (2015) — Sarah Hersh
Exergy Bubblebath (2015) — Peter Van Zandt Lane
Terminus set (order TBD) — solo miniatures by
John Allemeier, David Brighton, Russell Brown, Nicole Randall Chamberlain, Tom Dempster, Drew Dolan, John Hennecken, Olivia Kieffer, Brent Milam, James Paul Sain, Andrew Sigler, Nolan Stolz, Mitch Turner, Jorge Variego, Rachel Whelan, Natalie Williams, Ryan Williams
With nief-norf at Big Ears
A treat to play with Andrea Violet Lodge, Andy Bliss and Mike Truesdell. The piece, Dark Wind by John Luther Adams.
La jungla in the finals of the 2016 SIME Electroacoustic Music Competition
The piece advanced to the final round in this year’s edition of the competition, which had more than 130 entries!
Interview at WUOT with Todd Steed
Faculty recital at UT on 3/8 – Very new music
This Tuesday, March 8th at 8 PM in Powell recital hall. Free and open to the public.
Program
1- Sonatina para piano (2001) – J. Variego
a. Lento y muy rubato
b. Muy lento y fúnebre
c. Allegro diabólico
Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo – piano
2- Static motion (piano and electronics – 2010) – J. Variego
Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo – piano
3- Conversations with Harry (bass clarinet and electronics – 2015) – O. García
Jorge Variego – bass clarinet
World premiere
4- After Thad Jones (bass clarinet – 2012) – J. Variego
5- A rare form of kleptomania (bass clarinet and computer – 2015) – J. Variego
6- Inner blues (vibraphone and visuals – 2014) – J. Variego
Emory Hensley vibraphone, visuals
7- 4 flutes quartet (2005) – J. Variego
Rebecca Percy, Natalie Gregg, Shannon Frisco, Zac Morgan – flutes
8- A very new piece (this very moment)
Wei-Chun Bernadette Lo – piano
UT Electroacoustic Ensemble in Chattanooga
The recently formed UT EE gave a workshop and a concert at UTC on March 3rd. Great times, thank you Jonathan McNair.
Inner blues at the CMS Regional Conference in Birmingham
Research paper presentation and piece at the CMS regional conference at Birmingham Southern College.
– Paper “Teaching with GlassCasts: Using Google Glass to Teach Music Theory”. In Collaboration with Dr. Brendan McConville.
Short abstract: Podcasts have become an effective and portable tool for introducing and drilling material in music theory courses. Though audio and video podcasts formats have been pedagogically succesful for some time, it is important to continually consider how this technology might evolve. Is it possible to make them fully immersive, first person learning experience by capturing then through wearable technology? Google Glass is a “smart” technology built into a pair of eyeglasses. It posseses several important functions, such as taking photos, video capture, and Internet capabilities. This presentation will report on the creation, implementation, and effectiveness of Glass Casts in theory courses at a music school during the spring semester 2015.
– Piece: Inner blues – for vibraphone and electronics. Emory Hensley (vibraphone)
Inner blues (solo vibraphone) (version by Emory Hensley)
Nunca tan lejos at the Extravanganza Percussion Festival in Dublin
Roberto Oliveira will perform Nunca tan lejos at the Extravaganza Percussion Festival. The event will take place at the Royal Conservatory of Dublin, in Ireland on February 14th.
Listen to Roberto perform the piece here:
Nunca tan lejos – for vibraphone and computer (version by Roberto Oliveira)
La jungla in the winter edition of ink&coda
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ALEX BECK is ink&coda 3.1’s featured artist.
An award-winning painter and illustrator, Alex Beck maintains a studio in Arlington, Virginia. Known for his uncommonly versatile work in oil, acrylic, and gouache, his commissions and full-time work range from traditional formal portraits of Malcolm Gladwell to complex personal figurative painting. He is also professionally adapted to new technologies and digital painting.
Beck’s experience includes working as a concept/production artist for the Oscar/Emmy-winning animation house Moonbot Studios, as well as doing production work for Myachi Entertainment, The Design Center, and Tervis Tumbler. His work has received recognition in several juried gallery shows including Best of Show in Illest of Ill and Honorable Mention in the Crystal City Underground Gallery “Mayhem” Show. In 2012, Alex curated his first solo show, Gadzooks. His illustrations have appeared in Arlington Magazine and Spectrum Fantastic Art Annual #19, and were showcased at the Society of Illustrators Student Scholarship Competition in New York City. Currently, Alex commonly exhibits at local Washington Metropolitan venues.
Beck was formally trained at Ringling College of Art and Design, graduating with honors in 2012. He also expanded his training at the Illustration Academy in Kansas City, Missouri; The Masters Class at Amherst, Massachusetts; and The Art League of Alexandria, Virginia where he now teaches during the winter semester.
La jungla at Seamus 2016
The conference will be held Feb 11 – 13, 2016 at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. The conference will migrate between the downtown area and the university with the hope of bringing music and media art to the public.
The theme of SEAMUS 2016 is Transvergence. When paths converge at a basis, rather than simply diverge along their previous trajectories, the paths can instead veer along a transvergent trajectory outside the foreseen boundaries implied by pre-convergent momentum.
While convergence and divergence are simple linear extrapolations that proceed by strategies of alignment transvergence advances translinearly by tactics of derailment. … convergence and divergence contain the hidden assumption that the true in either a cultural or an objective sense is a continuous landmass. Transvergence recognises true statements to be islands in an alien archipelago sometimes only accessible by leaps flights and voyages on vessels of artifice – from Marcos Novak’s “Speciation, Transvergence, Allogenesis: Notes on the Production of the Alien”
Emory Hensley in action
Emory Hensley presents his work at the Mars Hill University and included “Inner blues” for vibraphone an visuals.
Inner blues (solo vibraphone) (version by Emory Hensley)