FEASt Festival 2009 @ Florida International University. This weekend, I will be giving a lecture as part of the FEASt Festival on my work as music director of MPG. I will be introducing for the first time to a group outside of Stetson my MPG carepackage. This collection of abstractions makes it easy for our […]
CMS 2009 Southern Chapter Regional Conference @ University of Central Florida. ABSTRACT – Mobile Performance Group is a collaborative, multimedia project involving faculty and students from Stetson University’s Digital Arts program. The group’s primary mission is to find new ways of presenting art outside of traditional venues. Since 2004, MPG has fulfilled this objective by […]
ATMI 2007 National Conference in Salt Lake City, UT. ABSTRACT – The National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) maintains a broad set of guidelines for music technology degrees. Even after assembling the required resources to establish such a degree program, applying for NASM approval can seem like a daunting task. This paper will discuss […]
CMS 2007 Pre-Conference Technology BootCamp in Salt Lake City, UT. ABSTRACT – Most learning management systems feature online discussion forums, allowing students and instructors to communicate asynchronously outside of class meetings. However, beyond their ability to exchange text messages, most also include the option of attaching small files to user posts. It has also become […]
ICMC 2006 @ Tulane University. Co-Chairs: Nathan Wolek and Virgil Moorefield Additional Participants: Dan Trueman and James Harley ABSTRACT – The performing ensemble has a firmly established role in music education. In the music conservatory model, conventional acoustic groups such as the chamber orchestra provide students with the opportunity to apply musicianship skills that are […]
Xenakis Legacies Symposium hosted by the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. ABSTRACT – In Formalized Music (1963/1992), Iannis Xenakis proposed a method of using sonic grains to synthesize original sounds. His musical application of Gabor’s (1947) theory of “acoustical quanta” has since spawned a variety of electronic and computer music techniques chronicled by Curtis […]
Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. Part of the soundaXis Festival 2006. This panel discussion on presenting music in unusual contexts was sponsored by the Canadian League of Composers. I was asked to participate as a panelist based on my position as Music Director of Mobile Performance Group. I spoke about our early performances of Parking […]
ATMI 2003 National Conference in Miami, FL. Co-authored with Peter V. Swendsen. EXCERPT – Programs in music technology certainly have individual approaches to teaching their students, emphasizing different aspects of the field in their curriculum. However, the differences are magnified in part by the multiplicity names these departments and research centers use to identify themselves. […]
SMPC 2003 National Conference @ University of Nevada – Las Vegas. Co-authors: Gary Kendall and Scott Lipscomb. EXCERPT -Granular processing of sampled audio signals (Roads 1985; Traux 1987) is a technique that has experienced increased interest in recent years. This processing technique has origins in the work of Dennis Gabor and his concept of the […]
SEAMUS 2002 National Conference @ University of Iowa. ABSTRACT -Since the generation of granular textures was first automated using a computer (Roads 1978), granular synthesis has grown to become a popular tool for creating new sounds in electro-acoustic music. Many effects can be achieved through the granulation of sampled sound including time compression (Jones and […]
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