Experimental Music & Digital Media @ LSU

Composer Jon Christopher Nelson will be a guest composer on the October 24, 2011 High Voltage concert.

This concert features LSU’s 27-channel loudspeaker orchestra iCast.

Nelson’s recently composed works Turbulent Blue and objet sonore/objet cinétique will highlight the concert. LSU composers Stephen David Beck, Jeff Albert, J. Corey Knoll, Yemin Oh, and Nick Hwang will also have works on the program.

Admission is free. The concert begins at 7:30pm and will run approximately 100 minutes.

Jon Christopher Nelson (b. 1960) is currently a Professor at the University of North Texas where he serves as an associate of CEMI (Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia) and also the Associate Dean of Operations. Nelson¹s electroacoustic music compositions have been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He has been honored with numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Commission. He is the recipient of Luigi Russolo and Bourges Prizes and was recently awarded the Bourges Euphonies d’Or prize. In addition to his electro-acoustic works, Nelson has composed a variety of acoustic compositions that have been performed by ensembles such as the New World Symphony, the Memphis Symphony, the Brazos Valley Symphony Orchestra, ALEA III, and others. He has composed
in residence at Sweden’s national Electronic Music Studios and at IMEB in Bourges, France. His works can be heard on the Bourges, Russolo Pratella, Innova, CDCM, NEUMA, ICMC, and SEAMUS labels.

LSU’s Experimental Music & Digital Media program will be hosting a concert and multiple lectures from visiting guest artists Margaret Schedel (Stony Brook University) and Rebecca Fiebrink (Princeton University) on March 1st and 2nd. Please see below for a complete list of events.

High Voltage Concert: March 2nd at 7:30 P.M., Studio Theater M&DA 129A

Concert with guest artist Margaret Schedel and musical machine learning researcher Rebecca Fiebrink. Also featured on the program are a variety of works in 16-channel surround sound by members of the EM/DM faculty and graduate sutdents.

Guest Artist Talk: March 2nd at 10:30 A.M., CCT, Johnston Hall Room 338

More information about the talk is available on CCT’s website.

They will also be presenting their work in the Introduction to Computer Music Class on March 1st from 10:30 A.M.-Noon in M&DA 248 and the Augmented Instrument Design Call from Noon-1:30 P.M. in Johnston Hall 16.

Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media whose works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. She holds a certificate in Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and has studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Cort Lippe and McGregor Boyle. She sits on the boards of 60×60 Dance, the BEAM Foundation, the Electronic Music Foundation Institute, the International Computer Music Association, the New West Electronic Art and Music Organization, and Organised Sound. She contributed a chapter to the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, and her article on generative multimedia was recently published in Contemporary Music Review. In the space of two years she edited an issue of the Journal of Visual Culture on Sound Art, and edited an issue of Organised Sound on Visual Music. Her work has been supported by the Presser Foundation, Centro Mexicano para la Música y les Artes Sonoras, and Meet the Composer. In 2009 she won the first Ruth Anderson Prize for her interactive installation Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair. Her research focuses on gesture in music, and the sustainability of technology in art. As an Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is a core faculty member of cDACT, the consortium for digital art, culture and technology. In 2010 she co-chaired the International Computer Music Conference, and in 2011 she co-chaired the Electro-Acoustic Music Studies Network Conference.