Scott Marosek recording Rara Avis at KUHF.  Special thanks to Ryan Edwards for engineering the project.

Rara Avis for piano, computer and video was commissioned last Thursday at the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College.  It was a wonderful collaboration between Carmen Montoya, Scott Marosek, and myself.  It was great to meet the staff at the Ammerman Center and the other commissioned artists.

Michael McGrath is premiering my work Baptist Pumpkin Center for drumset and computer this Saturday at Rice University. There will also be premieres by Kurt Stallmann and Robert Yekovich and a work by Art Gottschalk. The concert features a number of amazing performers including Steve Duke, Aleck Karis, Allen Blustine, Timothy Pitts, and students of the Shepherd School of Music.

Dylan Chmura-Moore and I performed my work Unsafe Microwave Oven Experiments at the SEAMUS national conference at Lawrence University this past week.  It was a great success!

I performed my piece Secret Society for the Jean Gebser Internation Convention held at Rice University on October 19th.   Here’s the video (a tripod and luck, no separate recording!).  There were some really cool pieces on the concert by Hsiao-Lan Wang, Dave Gedosh, Dan Zajicek, and Bryce Ingmire.  I plan to record and release a DVD of these types of performances this summer with much higher audio and video standards.

Secret Society

Here’s a video of Julie Licata performing my piece Nature Morte at the SEAMUS conference in Miami.  She did a great job, and it was a blast hanging out in Miami! Pardon the built in compressors that the kind people at Flip include on their cameras.

Julie Licata performing Nature Morte at SEAMUS 2011

Headed to Miami for the SEAMUS conference next week.  Julie Licata will be performing my piece Nature Morte for metal percussion and computer.  I’ll post pictures and video soon.

Rachel Yoder performed Moiré at the International Clarinet Festival in Austin, TX last week.  She did a great job!  Many thanks to both her and Greg Dixon for making it an easy and enjoyable experience.

Composers from the American Festival for the Arts came to Rice Electro-Acoustic Music Labs (REMLABS) last Friday for a whirlwind tour through the history of electronic music.  After the lecture, the composers created an improvisation for a Wiimote-controlled instrument and live processing of their voices using some software I made in Max/MSP.