upcoming . . .
:: Lullabies & Protest Songs, Vol. 1, enhanced CD coming out on Everglade Records, Sept. 2010
:: Autopoetics III (2010) for networked laptop ensemble performed by Non Vib. Ensemble, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA, on October 17, 2010
:: Autopoetics III (2010) for networked laptop ensemble performed by the WCU Laptop Arts Ensemble, Madeleine Adler Performing Arts Theater, West Chester University, West Chester, PA, on October 18, 2010
:: Tetralemma (2009) for Michael Straus tenor sax + two-channel tape + live computer + video by Mike Houston and Eric Knisley, at Atelier Nord and NOTAM, Oslo, Norway, October TBD, 2010
:: Autopoetics III (2010) for networked laptop ensemble performed by Electric Monster Laptop Ensemble, Reynolds Recital Hall, Montana State University, on December 9, 2010
:: Moonrise Hernandez! duo of Michael Straus and me + Blue Cycle: Coherence (2010) at Muziekcentrum de Badcuyp, Karnatic Lab Concert Series, Amsterdam, on Dec. 14, 2010
:: Moonrise Hernandez + Tetralemma + Blue Cycle: Coherence (2010) at OT301, Amsterdam, on Dec. 15, 2010
:: Moonrise Hernandez + Tetralemma + Blue Cycle: Coherence (2010) at Loos Foundation, Den Haag, Netherlands, on Dec. 16, 2010
recent . . .
:: residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA, July 15 through Aug. 15, 2010
:: Gravitron (2010) by Aaron Henderson (video) with sound by me at the Humbolt Moving Picture Show, outdoor screening at Richard Manor, Humbolt Park, Chicago, on July 17, 2010
:: Autopoetics III (2010) for networked laptop ensemble performed by the FIU Laptop & Electronic Arts Ensemble, directed by Paula Matthusen, at the Frost Museum, FIU, Miami, FL, on April 28, 2010
:: Gravitron (2010) by Aaron Henderson (video) with sound by me at the 2nd Annual Terminal Short Video Festival, APSU Dept. of Art, on April 15, 2010
:: Autopoetics II (2009) for networked laptop quintet at SEAMUS 2010, St. Cloud State University, Saint Cloud, MN, on April 8, 2010
:: Autopoetics II (2010) for networked laptop quartet at the New Music Ensemble Concert, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, on April 8, 2010
:: Blue Cycle: Noise (2008) for two-channel tape and video at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYC, on March 26, 2010
:: Georgia, &c. (2003) for two-channel tape at Transform/Immerse curated by Erik DeLuca, Audio March, the Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA, on March 24, 2010
:: Keyframe (2010) for live computer-mediated voice and electroacoustic music, with live video by Aaron Henderson, choreography by Mikey Thomas, at Hybrid Geographies, Wang Center Theatre, Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY, on March 24, 2010
:: lecture on “Keyframe: Surveillance and Performance in Public Space” with Aaron Henderson, at Hybrid Geographies, Wang Center Chapel, Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY, on March 24, 2010
:: Tetralemma (2009) for Michael Straus tenor sax + two-channel tape + live computer + video by Mike Houston and Eric Knisley, at CNMAT, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, on Feb. 20, 2010
:: Mark Applebaum’s The Metaphysics of Notation, performance by Michael Straus saxophones and me laptopista avioncitos, at the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA on Feb. 19, 2010
:: an evening of improvisation with Matt Ingalls, Michael Straus, and Ken Ueno, at the Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA, on Feb. 18, 2010
:: Tetralemma (2009) at the University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, Stockton, CA, on Feb. 17, 2010
:: Tetralemma (2009) at the Uncertainty Music Series, Never Ending Books, New Haven, CT, on Feb. 13, 2010
:: Tetralemma (2009) at the 12 Nights Concert Series, Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL, on Feb. 6, 2010
:: collaboration with Aaron Henderson on “Midway” at the Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, Jan. 25 through Feb. 19, 2010. 3-channel electronic sound for Gravitron (2010), 8-channel electronic sound for Feuerball (2010), and 2-channel electronic sound for Pharoahs Fury (2010).
:: Nachtlicht (2010) collective performance piece for eighteen networked laptopists at the 3rd Annual Let There Be Light Festival, PVCC, Charlottesville, VA, on Dec. 11, 2009
:: Tetralemma (2009) at Muziekcentrum de Badcuyp, Karnatic Lab Concert Series, Amsterdam, on Dec. 8, 2009
:: review of Tae Hong Park, Introduction to Digital Signal Processing, Computer Musically Speaking (Singapore: World Scientific, 2009), in Journal SEAMUS, Vol. 20, No. 2, Dec. 2009
:: To Poets (2009) for open instrumentation and two-channel tape at Beauty, Horror and Silence, 12 Nights Electronic Arts and Music Festival, Harold Golen Gallery, Miami, FL, on Dec. 6, 2009
:: TechnoSonics X: Building performances of Autopoetics II (2009) for networked laptop sextet at the Mead Theatre Lab, Washington, D.C. on Nov. 15 ; Muse Creative Workspace, Richmond, VA on Nov. 14 ; Live Arts, Charlottesville, VA, on Nov. 13, 2009
:: Blue Cycle: Noise (2008) at the University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, on Nov. 10, 2009
:: premiere of Tetralemma (2009) for Michael Straus sax + two-channel tape + live computer + video by Mike Houston and Eric Knisley, at the 3rd Practice Festival, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, on Nov. 7, 2009
:: Suspension no. 3: Open Threads (2007, rev. 2009) [with Rebekah Wostrel] for computer-mediated live-interactive sound and video on screen of 210 porcelain tiles, at the 3rd Practice Festival, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, Nov. 4 through 7, 2009 — now with four-channel acousmatics!
:: To Poets (2009) performed by the Ant’s Elbow Duo Project 2009 Louisiana Tour at Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA on Nov. 5 ; Open Ears Series at the Blue Nile, New Orleans, LA on Nov. 3 ; Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA on Nov. 2 ; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, on Nov. 1, 2009
:: “Making Unrealistic Demands of Music,” talk on the Music Innovators’ Series 2009, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, on July 7, 2009
:: premiere of PLOrk [Princeton Laptop Orchestra] commission, Autopoetics I (2009), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, on May 10, 2009 — PLOrk, with Matmos, Riley Lee and So Percussion
:: “Production Value, Quality of Sound, and Electroacoustic Music,” panel author and chair at SEAMUS 2009, Sweetwater, Fort Wayne, IN, on April 17, 2009 ; with Paul Koonce, Virgil Moorefield, Ko Umezaki, and Peter Swendsen
:: composer-in-residence at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH, Feb. 22 through 25, 2009
:: Blue Cycle: Noise (2008) at the Spark Festival, Minneapolis, MN, on Feb. 21, 2009
:: premiere of 210 Study for Van Stiefel’s laptop quartet at the West Chester University School of Music, West Chester, PA, on Feb. 12, 2009
:: composer-in-residence at Mills College, Oakland, CA, Feb. 2 through 9 ; incl. Songlines Series colloquium / performance — of Blue Cycle: Noise (2008), Lux Brevis (2008), on Feb. 9, 2009
:: talk on “Approaches to EA Composition in the Blue Cycle” and performance of Blue Cycle: Noise (2008) at the Dartmouth College Computer Music Symposium, Holderness, NH, on Jan. 3, 2009
:: Lux Brevis (2008) [with Troy Rogers] collective performance piece for light-activated sound-emitting spinning tops at the 2nd Annual Let There Be Light Festival, PVCC, Charlottesville, VA, on Dec. 12, 2008
:: composer-in-residence, Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, Nov. 12 through 17 ; incl. Blue Cycle: Noise (2008) at KNUA Next Wave 2008 concert, on Nov. 15, 2008
:: TechnoSonics VCCM 20th Anniversary Tour performance of Blue Cycle: Noise (2008) at Live Arts, Charlottesville, VA, on Nov. 14, 2008
:: premiere of Goodnight Nobody (2008) for shakuhachi + four-channel tape, at the 3rd Practice Festival, Richmond, VA, on Nov. 7, 2008
:: TechnoSonics VCCM 20th Anniversary Tour performances of Blue Cycle: Noise (2008) at Muse Creative Workspace, Richmond, VA, on Nov. 6 ; Symphony Space, NYC on Oct. 31 ; DCCA Arts Center, Wilmington, DE on Oct. 30 ; University of DE, Newark, DE on Oct. 29, 2008
:: Hard Sync (2008) + musical top-making session [with Dylan Bolles] at the 11th Annual Music for People and Thingamajigs, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, on Sept. 21, 2008
stay tuned for updates . . .