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2012 Symposium on Electroacoustic Performance

From 11am-7pm on April 21st ,2012, composers and performers of electroacoustic music will gather at Brooklyn College to discuss issues of electroacoustic music performance.

Symposium schedule summary (subject to change):
11:00-11:15: Coffee and introductions (BC Library room 411)
11:15-1:00: Presentations, part one (BC Library room 411)
1:00-2:00: Open discussion on issues of electroacoustic performance (BC Library room 411)
2:00-2:45: Lunch (BC Library room 411)
2:45-3:30: Panel 1: Performing Acoustic Instruments with Electronics (BC Library room 411)
3:30-4:15: Panel 2: Performing Electronic Instruments (laptops, phones, and other devices) (BC Library room 411)
4:30-7:00: Presentations, part two (Roosevelt Hall Extension, room 206G)

Symposium Schedule (subject to change)

Opening
11:00 Coffee and introductions
11:15 Welcome and day’s overview by Prof. Bruce MacIntyre (Chair, Conservatory of Music of
Brooklyn College), Prof. Tania León (Director, Music Composition Department), and
Assoc. Prof. Douglas Geers (symposium director).

Short Presentations 1
11:30 Marianne Gythfeldt “Have We Lost Our Place? The Many Roles of the Acoustic Instrumentalist in Electronic Music”
11:40 David Wetzel “New Realizations of Existing Interactive Electroacoustic Works: Repertoire, Sustainability, and Discovery”
11:50 Jeff Snyder “Electronic Made Acoustic”
12:00 Elizabeth Hoffman “Semblance and Make-Believe: Toward a Theory of Listener Embeddedness in Electroacoustic Composition”
12:10 Terry Pender “Aural Hygiene”
12:20 Robert Rowe “Interaction, Emotion, and Deriving Musical Signals from Audio”
12:30 Martha Mooke “Plugging in the Muse (Batteries Not Included)”
12:40 Michael Klingbeil “Mining the Spectrum”
12:50 Rebecca Fiebrink “Using Machine Learning to Support an Embodied Approach to Building New Digital Musical Instruments”

Lunch
2:00 Concurrent demonstration by David Wetzel of his Interactive Event Manager software

Panel 1: Performing acoustic instruments with electronics
2:45 Panelists Maja Cerar, Mari Kimura, Esther Lamneck, Martha Mooke, Todd Reynolds, Madeleine Shapiro, and David Wetzel

Panel 2: Performing with electronic instruments
3:30 Panelists Luke Dubois, Rebecca Fiebrink, Douglas Geers, Damon Holzborn, Jaime Oliver, and Jeff Snyder

Break and Relocation to Roosevelt Hall Extension, room 206G
4:15 (NOTE: Remainder of symposium will happen in room 206G, Roosevelt Extension)

Short Presentations 2
4:30 Mari Kimura “Organic Technology”
4:40 Madeleine Shapiro “DanceMad: Motion Tracking Cello Solo”
4:50 Jules Gimbrone “Using our Bodies : Performativity, Collaboration and Interactivity”
5:00 Red Wierenga “The Importance of Touch in New Digital Musical Instrument Design”
5:10 Damon Holzborn “I 5:30 Douglas Cohen “Shared Limits in Performance”
5:40 Jaime Oliver “Contingency Patching: Designing Architectures for Computer Improvisation with CPU Optimization”
5:50 Hans Tammen “The Endangered Guitar, a Hybrid Guitar/Software Instrument for Experimental Music”
6:00 Douglas Geers “Are We Performing Yet? Addressing the Cognitive Dissonances of Electroacoustic Ensemble Performance”

Concluding Presentation and Performance
6:20 R. Luke Dubois, Todd Reynolds “Never enough RAM – The Eternal Saga of a Stereo Pair”

All questions and inquiries about this event should be made to Doug Geers: dgeers [at] brooklyn.cuny.edu.