Category Archives: Audio and scores

“Nunca tan lejos” in the Discordia album release

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Album release concert featuring electroacoustic music from the southeast! Nearly all the works appearing on this 2nd release from the EMPiRES label are beign performed at the Dancz Center for New Music in Athens!

Check out this line-up…

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“Nunca tan lejos” – Jorge Variego
Justin Iadonisi, percussion

“Pyromancer” – Peter Van Zandt Lane
Peter Van Zandt Lane, bassoon

“Over $100,000 Worth” – Jason R. Butcher and Don Hassler
Jason R. Butcher and Don Hassler, synthesizers

“From Afar, Drawing Near” – Cody Brookshire
Victoria Bethel, Bb trumpet

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“Malleis” – Aaron Anderson
Matheus Rocha, piano

“A Cave” – Adam Scott Neal
Hanna Lisa Steffanson, piano

“Tunnel of Quantum Love” – Hanna Lisa Steffanson
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“fragments/frames” – Rob Seaback
Addison Mason, tenor saxophone

“In Fields Forgotten by the Sun” – John Hennecken
Lucas Scalamogna, violin

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Snacks and beverages will be on hand before the concert and during the intermission. An open post-concert talk/panel/Q&A will immeditaly follow the concert.

Also,the whole thing is FREE! Come out and support these regional composers and performers creating great electronic music!

Generous support from UGA’s Willson Center has made this event possible. See you there!

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Album Description: After the 2014 release of the metallic-tinged electroacoustic compilation “Sonic Flux,” EMPiRES sought to organize a compilation of music by composers and performers from the southeastern United States. Here in this second compilation volume, there is an overarching evocation of discord present across the 10 tracks, musically depicted not only in harmony and timbre, but also in rhythm, space, form, and contrasting characters of sound source elements. With this theme fortuitously arising out of the contributed recordings, it was fitting to use the title “Discordia,” taken directly from the title of the album’s cover art by Frances Jemini.

Nicole Chamberlain premieres “Minute flute” for solo bass flute

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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

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Faculty recital at UT on 3/8 – Very new music

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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

Inner blues at the CMS Regional Conference in Birmingham

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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)

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

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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”