SEAMUS 2010 @ St. Cloud State University in Minnesota
I just returned from several days at the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States National Conference. In addition to hearing loads of new music, I gave a presentation on the MPG Carepackage. This continues my efforts to get more people using this collection of patches [...]
FMEA 2010 Clinic-Conference @ Tampa, FL
My lecture from this year’s FMEA is now available for download. The presentation highlighted how the media has helped propel the concept of the laptop as instrument into the public consciousness. It concluded with some ideas on how K12 music educators can start to wrap their heads about the potentials [...]
FMEA 2010 Clinic-Conference @ Tampa, FL
On Thursday this week, I will be giving a lecture at the Florida Music Educators Association Annual Clinic-Conference. This is the largest gathering of K12 music teachers in the state.
My talk will cover:
the media’s role in how the laptop came to be considered an instrument
myths and stereotypes about laptop music
famous names [...]
FEASt Festival 2009 @ Florida International University.
If you were not able to attend the FEASt Festival at FIU, you can now download an enhanced podcast recording of my lecture. The topic of the presentation was network-enabled coordination of laptop performance and featured the public debut of the MPG Carepackage.
The patches involved can be downloaded as [...]
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 [...]
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 presenting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 taught in [...]
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 [...]
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