Electroacoustic Fais Do Do
April 5 & 6 the EMDM program at LSU is host to a series of events celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States.
The conference will present three (3) concerts focused on one of the three conference topics, each an area of research central to our current work at LSU:
- Cinema for the Ears (High Density Loudspeaker Array presentation of multi-channel fixed media)
- New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Music for Instruments and Electronics
Full information can be found here.
Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana
The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana presents a concert of:
Electroacoustic Improvisation and Handmade Electronics
November 1 @ 730PM Digital Media Center Theatre
The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana explores the interface between electronics and music, computers and performance. This concert is a collection of structured compositions and improvisations exploring sound objects through group performance. The ensemble is performing Electroacoustic Improvisation (EAI) through the development of their own Instrumentariums – with objects and sounds that can contribute to a unique group performance. In addition to physical artifacts the LOLs have created hands-on electronics and perform live through circuit bending.
In improvisation, the ability to listen to the sound of the room, the environment, and the individual sounds of members in the ensemble is key. To hone these skills for EAI, we employ Deep Listening, a practice developed and taught by electronic music luminary Pauline Oliveros. We invite you to join us, focusing inward towards the incidental and electronic sounds of the ecosystems we inhabit, listening deeply to this experimental world of sound.
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High Voltage 2023
The EMDM High Voltage Concert is an Experimental Music and Digital Media bonanza where the experimental and the avant-garde reign supreme. The 2023 incarnation will feature live electronic, electroacoustic, and fixed media works of all kinds.
Works by Konstantinos Karathanasis, Jesse Allison, Brian Nabors, Erin Demastes, Treya Nash, Kerem Ergener, and Dylan Burchett
High Voltage 2023
DMC Theatre
February 24th, 7:30 PM
340 E. Parker Blvd
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Tenure Track Professor Position in EMDM
We are excited to announce the opening of a Tenure Track position in Experimental Music & Digital Media. If you are working within the creative technology and music sphere, we encourage you to apply.
- Teach courses. Courses may include those aligned with the undergraduate Digital Media minor, and Digital Media Arts & Engineering
- Perform research, scholarship and creative activity within the School of Music’s Experimental Music & Digital Media program and the Center for Computation & Technology’s (CCT) Cultural Computing group
- Other duties include attracting extramural funding and work with interdisciplinary teams that include faculty, doctoral students, post-docs and research associates
- Participate in other educational and professional tasks of the Department and the University
• Artificial Intelligence• Interactive Music Systems• Machine Learning• XR-extended reality/Virtual Worlds
- Cyberinfrastructure Applications in Music
- Democratization of Musical Interfaces
- Digital Musical Instruments / Digital Lutherie
- Digital Signal Processing/Synthesis
- Electroacoustic Music Composition
- Experimentalism in Music
- History of Electroacoustic Music
- Immersive Sound Diffusion
- Music Information Retrieval
- Musical Robotics
- Ubiquitous Music Computing
Fall 2022 lineup of EMDM classes in music & technology
In case you are wondering what to sign up for…
Unique things this semester:
- Signal Processing and interactivity in MaxMSP via MUS 4745
- An exciting collaboration with DMAE and Digital Art to explore XR Performance!
- Create the Technology and Compose works through MUS 7746
- Perform in Extended Reality through the MUS 4270 EMDM Ensemble
The Fall 2022 lineup of music & technology classes from EMDM
MUS 7746 – Research Seminar in EMDM: XR Performance
Taught by: Jesse Allison & Derick Ostrenko
Paired with ART 4240 Special Topics: XR Performance
Performance and live events such as concerts, opening ceremonies, theatrical productions, and other spectacles are using light, sound, and technology to extend reality in rapidly evolving ways. This course engages the intersection of electronic music, visualization, performer, and audience. We will focus on creating real-time music, sound, and performance that respond and interact with graphics, lighting, and illusion on a large LED wall in LSU’s new XR Studio environment. Experimental and traditional tools for content creation will be explored as a part of the production pipeline such as Max (Jitter), Unreal Engine, Notch, and TouchDesigner. Other strategies for interaction and reaction such as motion capture, sensors, and computer vision will be covered. The course is project based and will entail a series of lessons that pave the way for original XR performances that combine physical sets with digital graphics.
Open to students with some coding background (MUS 4745 suggested)
Fall 2022 T/Th 1:30-3:00
MUS 2745 – Intro to Computer Music
Taught by: Dylan Burchett
- DAWs, Recording/Editing, composing, sound design
- Culminates in a concert of works at the Really, Really New Music Marathon.
Open to all levels including Digital Media Minor students
Fall 2022 MWF 930-1030
MUS 4745 – Computer Music
- Using computers to create music from scratch
- Audio programming in Max
- Sound Synthesis
- Audio Processors
- Computer Music Composition
- Computer Interactivity and Performance
Open to all levels including Digital Media Minor students
Fall 2022 T/Th 9:00-10:20
MUS 4270 – EMDM Ensemble – Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana
- Exploring Performance with technology
- Composition for Electronic Instruments
- Improvisation
- XR Performance with a Virtual Production Studio!
- Performance!
Open to all levels including Digital Media Minor students
Fall 2022 T 3:00-550
MUS 3152/7053 – Applied Electroacoustic Music
Taught by: Dr. Allison & Dr. Beck
- define and compose works incorporating -or creating- technology. (Essentially composition on electricity)
- Pre-requisite of MUS 2745 (or by permission of instructor)
- Culminates in a performance of the technology you created at the Really, Really New Music Marathon.
Open to EMDM and Composition students and others by approval
Fall 2022 Fr 3:00-4:20 + by appointment
If you have any questions about the courses or requirements, please contact Dr. Allison at jtallison@lsu.edu
EMDM Goes to 11!
EMDM Goes to 11
Featuring Pamela Z
All events are free and open to the public. Mask Required.
EMDM@11 Official Page | Facebook Event | Manship Event
Tuesday, February 8th, Digital Media Center Theatre
7:30 Screening of:
Sisters With Transistors
Sisters With Transistors maps a new history of electronic music through the visionary women whose radical experimentations with machines redefined the boundaries of music, including Clara Rockmore, Daphne Oram, Bebe Barron, Delia Derbyshire, Else Marie Pade, Pauline Oliveros, Wendy Carlos, Eliane Radigue, Suzanne Ciani, and Laurie Spiegel.
Friday, February 11, Digital Media Center Theatre
Pamela Z
3PM Presentation in the Digital Media Center Theatre
Internationally renowned experimental music artist Pamela Z will be giving a talk on her process and performing a solo concert of her work at the remarkable LSU Digital Media Center Theatre.
730PM Pamela Z in Concert at the Digital Media Center Theatre
Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist who works primarily with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live digital looping techniques, she processes her voice in real time to create dense, complex sonic layers. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers that allow her to manipulate sound with physical gestures. pamelaz.com
Saturday, February 12
EMDM Goes to 11
Featuring Pamela Z
10-Noon EMDM Goes to 11 Expo!
at the River Center Branch of the EBR Public Library
The Expo is a showcase of electronic music, experimental instruments, audio processors and sound art installations created through the Experimental Music & Digital Media program at LSU. Think of it as a maker faire for music technology and sonic art!
- Sound art & Composition Listening Space
- Sonic art installations
- Electronic music Instrument creations
- Interactive computing and audio processing Demos
Noon-1PM Pamela Z presents!
World renowned media artist, composer and performer Pamela Z will be providing a glimpse inside her process of performing with technology. At the EBRPL River City Branch
730PM EMDM Goes to 11 Concert
Concert of Experimental Music including Pamela Z, the Constantinides New Music Ensemble, and the Laptop Orchestra of the Louisiana. At the Hartley-Vey Theater at the Manship
All events are Free and Open to the Public.
EMDM Goes to 11 featuring Pamela Z
Cancelled – Cinema for the Ears – Greek Theatre!
Concert Cancelled Due to Weather
Unfortunately, the outdoor concert has had to be cancelled due to weather. Due to pandemic restrictions, suitable alternative spaces and dates were unable to be found. Cinema for the Ears will be back in early Fall 2021.
Cinema for the Ears is our annual concert of electronic and computer music composed for fixed media and presented in a multi-channel format. This year, we will be presenting the concert on an 8.1 channel surround sound environment installed at the LSU Greek Theatre.
The concert will feature music by Kathleen Winn, Keri Devilynn, Austin Franklin, John Chowning, Edgar Berdahl, Jesse Allison and Stephen David Beck.
Bring your mask and join us for this unique socially-distanced electroacoustic performance.
530PM
LSU Greek Theatre
(Next to the Music & Dramatic Arts building)
Dr. Beck in front of the 27.2 channel iCAST Sound Diffusion System
For more on Immersive Sound work at LSU, please visit our page on Spatialization and the ICAST system.
Check out the EMDM Courses for Spring 2021!
The upcoming semester is going to be a fun one if you are into Music Technology! Here are the various course offerings that entangle with EMDM in Spring of 2021.
Performance of the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana
MUS 2700 – Intro to Music Technology [Dr. Berdahl]
- Introduction to contemporary technologies for music composition, performance, and publishing.
- Basic audio production using a DAW and portable recorders
- Basic video production including lighting, recording and editing.
- Basic web site design and deployment to position yourself at the start of your career.
MUS 2745 – Intro to Computer Music [GTAs Austin Franklin & Dylan Burchett]
- DAWs, Recording/Editing, composing, sound design
- Culminates in a concert of works at the Really, Really New Music Marathon.
MUS 3152/7053 – Applied Electroacoustic Music [Dr. Allison & Dr. Berdahl]
- define and compose works incorporating -or creating- technology. (Essentially composition on electricity)
- Pre-requisite of MUS 2745 (or by permission of instructor)
- Culminates in a performance of the technology you created at the Really, Really New Music Marathon.
MUS 7746 – Research Seminar in Experimental Music & Digital Media [Dr. Allison]
- Topic: Music, Web and Net Art
- We explore interesting new tools, everyone develops a research project exploring creative uses of said tools, and produces a research paper for NIME, ICMC, WAC, TEI or other appropriate venue.
ART 4059 – Digital Media Capstone course [Dr. Berdahl (EMDM) and Gabriel DeSouza (Engineering)]
- Everyone in the capstone comes from different fields.
- They develop intermedia project proposals, split into groups and produce them by the end of the semester.
- The idea is that you capitalize on the strengths and abilities of everyone in your team and create a novel project…. much like the digital media industry.
CSC 2463 – Programming Digital Media [GTAs Tate Carson & Simron Thapa]
- Coding for graphics using P5.js
- Coding for audio using Tone.js & WebAudio
- Coding for physical computing using Arduino
- Combining all 3 approaches into a final interactive project that you can touch, see, and hear.
If you are interested, please talk to your advisor or direct questions to the instructor of the class.
Hope to see you this Spring!
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Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana – Concert of Telepresence
The LOLs will perform an entire concert live in your browser. This new telematic form of Net Art will meld live coding of audio and imagery, recorded video with live streams, glitch imagery and network delay, and turn your web browser into an instrument of sonic art.
Monday, November 2 @ 7:30PM
Online – live.emdm.io
Secondary live stream available at twitch.tv/lsuemdm
Free and Open to the Public
With performances by:
Members of the LSU Chorale and LSU Tiger Glee Club
Trey Davis, conductor
LSU Physical Theater
Nick Erickson, director
and Members of the EMDM Ensemble
Please be aware that the full performance is IN-BROWSER. The live stream on twitch will document the performance, but please go to the website for the full participative experience…
Recommended Setup:
- Laptop Computer
- Google Chrome
- Large Display
- Good Speakers (or good headphones)
What is this really about?
When describing the computerization of society in 1978 Nora and Minc coined the term télématique to refer to the transfer of information in telecommunications. Today telematics is known for use in vehicles and gps systems, however with the expansion of IoT (Internet of Things) the concept has expanded to cover the multitudes. In music, Telematic performance commonly refers to live-streaming audio and video between locations – not just separating performers and audience, but multiple performers navigating the network delay musically. However, this may also take the form of communicating musical information such as notes, rhythms, recordings, and gestures. This organizing of sound collaboratively at a distance is the essence of telematic musical performance. The computerization of society has led to a computerization of culture, and the recent pandemic response has made us aware of how much we rely on this already.
The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana is taking telematic performance to an experimental level and has created an entire live performance over the world wide web. This internet performance will bring your computer alive to be performed as an instrument. The Ensemble weaves live streaming with live coding, laptop performance with video performance, glitch art with artistic latency.
- Performance in browser
- 3D live streaming
- Network as musical delay line
- Mediated Live performance
- Performance of the browser… McLuhen, eat your heart out
The medium is the message and the message this Monday is sonic art.
Cinema for the Ears: Online Edition
September 21
7:30 PM
emdm.io
The Cinema for the Ears concert is typically held in the remarkable 92 speaker Digital Media Center Theatre. This 2020 version has adapted to the pandemic experience, exploring new territory by bringing immersive experimental music fully online. Video, binaural audio, and live streaming will present sonic art work along with composer thoughts, program notes and live browser experiences to experience the music in your own abode.
This is the first in a series of Fall Concerts by EMDM to transform the way we can put on concerts over the internet. This first concert is laying the groundwork with delivering a live concert through the web by integrating high quality audio and video, live interactions, and curated live streaming. As the fall moves into the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana concert on Nov. 2nd @ 7:30, the ensemble will present teleperformances in ways that have never been tried, from live streaming multi-performer ambisonic works to full on web browser performances that are tailored towards delivery, in real time, over the network. We invite you to join us Sept. 21 for the first steps in this wild journey.
The Concert & Artist Q&A will be performed live at: emdm.io
Sonic Art Works by
Edgar Berdahl
Jesse Allison
Ka Hei Cheng
Chase Mitchusson
Austin Franklin
Scott Nelson
Robert Chedville