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Spring 2024 Seminar of Experimental Music

All Presentations are held in the DMC Theatre (or next-door in DMC 1034) unless otherwise noted.

8/27 – Welcome Back
9/10 – Jesse Allison: Meyer Constellation and CueStation Seminar
9/17- Video Production Seminar
9/24 – Cinema for the Ears
10/1 – Jesse Allison: Deep Listening to Important Electronic Music Pieces and Movements
10/15 – Austin Franklin: Using MIR techniques in music for live electronics
10/29 – Erin Demastes: mini performance of handmade instruments and a small installation, Treya Nash: compositions
11/5 – Scott Nelson: , Matt Bardin: Creating an augmented performance tool, Taylor Stoddard: Music
11/12 – Kenneth Gornor: Music, Traci Fowler: Music
11/19 – Will Thompson: Eight Piano Etudes Speaks the Moody Machine, Luke Sands: Music, Dylan Burchett: Computer Chess
12/3 – Henry Kiley: Liminality in Music + Liminal Spaces, Henry Grandbouche: music, Ka Hei Cheng: Sonification of genomic data and gesture-based performance

1/15 – Jesse Allison: Overview of Audio Synthesis Languages
1/22 – Jesse Allison: VCV Rack Overview, Edgar Berdahl: Tips for Video-Documentation of Music Projects
1/29 – Bill Kelley: Analog Synthesis
2/5 – Simon Hussain: How I made my first two songs in Ableton, Luke Sands: compositions
2/12 – Kenny Gornor: Delay in pd and my music, Michael Blandino: Some Tools for Experimentation
2/26 – Saida Joshua-Smith: Two Songs
3/5 – Dylan Burchett: Intro to SuperCollider
3/19 – Stephen Beck: CSound, Matthew Bardin: Making audio on the Nintendo Gameboy
3/26 – Bobby Chedville: Experimental Music in Film Scores, Koby Schexnayder: Recording in Reason, Ka Hei Cheng: The Entangling Turner (Application of motion sensor in electronic musical instrument)
4/9 – Will Thompson: An Infinitely Sustaining Piano Achieved Through a Soundboard-Mounted Shaker, Gabe Keowen: Sound Design with FMOD & Unity, Traci Fowler: Sounds of Space
4/16 – Scott Nelson: , Elvis Bendaña: In Zoom: Creating music using Max, OBS & Zoom, Peter Tinker: Parametric Video Game Music in Max
4/23 – Austin Franklin: Expressivity in Music for Robotic instruments, Mary Moore: Music, Keri Pertuit: Mixed Media & Interactive Music

August 28 | Welcome Back, Dr. Allison – Telepresence
September 4 | Chase Mitchusson – Unity Audio Mixer
September 11 | Matthew Bardin & Dr. Allison – Live Streaming w/ OBS Studio
September 18 | Week Off – C4tEars Tech Meeting
September 25 | Edgar Berdahl – Étude pour un ordinateur seul
October 2| Michael Blandino – How many degrees of freedom can we effectively control?
October 9 | Cancelled due to Hurricane.
October 16 | Ka Hei Cheng: EcoMusicology and Soundscape – Urban Remakes, Matt Bardin – Using networking to build a virtual space
October 23 | Saida Joshua-Smith, Will Thompson – Recurrent Neural Networks, MIDI Scores, and Speech
October 30 | Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOL Concert Nov. 2 @ 7:30)
November 6 | Henry Kiley – The Abyss, Austin Franklin – Composing and Improvising Using Sound Content-Based Descriptive Filtering
November 13 | Tate Carson – immaterial.cloud: Using peer-to-peer technologies for music, Connor Underwood – Using the Leap Motion to Create an Augmented Piano
November 20 | Dylan Burchett – Affective Electronics, Scott Nelson – Capitulation to an Unholy Union
November 27 | Thanksgiving Break
December 4 | Post RRNMM presentations

January 17 | Welcome Back
January 25 | Chase Mitchusson: PAX South
January 31 | Global Game Jam!
February 7 | GGJ Recap?
February 14 | Valentine’s Edition
February 21 | Bill Kelley – Synthesis, Old School
February 28 |
March 6 | Will Thompson, Tate Carson
March 13 |
March 20 | DMC Theatre Sonic Tour and Meyer Constellation Training (High Voltage Concert April 1 @ 7:30)
March 27 | Spring Break
April 3 | Anthony Marasco: Bendit_I/O Workshop
April 10 | Good Friday
April 17 | Red Stick Festival – Podcast-a-looza
April 24 | Austin Thompson, Matt Bardin
May 1 | Post RRNMM presentations

January 18 | Tate Carson: presenting on his software and distributed cell phone piece Mesh Garden, Anthony Marasco: Bendit.io – a circuit board he created for simplifying circuit bending musical applications
January 25 | Dr. Jesse Allison: Dream logos
February 1 | Game Jam Postmortem by Landon Viator, Chase Mitchusson & Others, Chase Mitchusson: game/work last semester Zandra
February 8 | Landon Viator: Plugin Development with JUCE and C#
February 15 | Tate Carson: Web based synthesizer design using Vue.js, Will Thompson: Telephone – networked computer composition
February 22 | Michael Blandino: ICMC Paper Presentation
March 1 |Day off, enjoy!
March 8 | DMC Theatre Sonic Tour and Meyer Constellation Training (High Voltage Concert that evening @ 7:30)
March 15 | Recording Studio Tutorial
March 22 | Anthony Marasco: Building Circuit Boards
March 29 | Jeff Mair, Smoking Gun Interactive, Redstick Digital Festival!
April 5 | James Foret – Ableton Live, Serum and the art of the Drop
Kevin McCabe – Either snare, typewriter and fixed media piece or live video synthesis with Vizzie…
Austin Franklin – Sax and Fixed Media
April 12 | Chase Mitchusson: Wwise and Unreal Audio Integration
April 19 | Spring Break
April 26 | Dr. Edgar Berdahl & ICMC Paper Presentations

August 30 | Welcome & Dr. Allison State of EM
September 6 | Studio Recap
Sept. 13 | Michael Blandino –
Tate Carson & Anthony Marasco – report on NIME 2019!!!
Sept. 20 | DMC Theatre – Meyer Constellation & Cuestation
Sept. 27 | Will Thompson – #speak
Thomas Wilson & Connor Underwood – EMM Review!
October 4 | Landon Viator – implementing differential equations in Max to synthesize chaotic oscillation
Oct. 11 | Tate Carson – Art & Music on the decentralized web. + student
Oct. 18 | Fall Holiday
Oct. 25 | Austin Franklin – Tactus
Mary Moore – Music Based Gaming in Crypt of the NecroDancer
November 1 | Laptop Orchestra
Nov. 8 | Landon Viator – using Overleaf for conference papers,
Bobby Chedville – Interstellar Invigoration – Video and Fixed Media
Leigh Anne Robichaux – Exploring Live in the style of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Nov. 15 | Chase Mitchusson | VR Lab
Thomas Wilson & Matthew Bardin – TBA
Nov. 22 | Anthony Marasco – WAC & Bendit.io + Dr. Allison NexusHub
Nov. 29 | Thanksgiving
December 6 | Undergrads! post RRNMM
Tamara Scott – TBD + Foley
Gabriel Keowen – TBD