February 7, 2010 – 5:10 pm
On February 18, 7:00pm at One Wheelock, composer/performer Jeffrey Roberts will present a public lecture-concert entitled, “Ancient Impression, Modern Resonance: A Concert of Traditional Music and Modern Improvisation on the Chinese Guqin.”
Guqin, an over 3,000-year unbroken Chinese music tradition, is at the heart of Chinese philosophy and aesthetics. A stringed instrument of the Chinese literati scholar, the guqin tradition is highly influenced by Daoism and the aesthetics of ‘immediacy in emotional impression’ guided scholars toward enlightened and individual music expressions as well as a re-connection with nature and the universe.
Dr. Jeff Roberts studied guqin traditional performance and improvisation on a Fulbright Scholarship with renowned Beijing guqin master Li Xiangting. Dr. Roberts with perform traditional guqin compositions and improvisations as well as improvisation in a modern context, using live interactive sampling and playback using Max/MSP software. He will also present a pre-concert talk on Chinese aesthetics, history of guqin, and his own creative work as performer and composer.
This event is free and open to the public.
January 29, 2010 – 1:30 pm
Dartmouth Digital Musics took part in the NEMISIG meeting on Friday January 29th, 2010, at New York University Steinhardt Music School, New York City:
NEMISIG2010 web site
Among the presentations were an overview of BMARS’ MIR research by Prof. Michael Casey, and a poster by BMARS Ph.D. student (and studio director) Spencer Topel.
January 22, 2010 – 10:24 pm
The third concert of “The Way to Go Out” is going to be an incredible juxtaposition of the best in old and new music, featuring NYC composer and visual artist Tristan Perich, Dartmouth cello phenom Julia Floberg, and three of Dartmouth’s Digital Musics graduate students.
- “Observations,” duo for crotales and one-bit music by Tristan Perich
- “Yellow 632,” trio for Tickle Me Big Birds by Ken Ueno
- “Cello Suite No. 1 in G major” by J.S. Bach
The show will be at 6:00pm on January 28th at the Spheris Gallery on Main Street in downtown Hanover (between the Bank of America and the Nugget Movie Theater). It is free and open to the public.
January 5, 2010 – 1:07 pm
American Music Center’s online publication NewMusicBox features Digital Musics faculty member Larry Polansky this month in their interview and video Larry Polansky: Open Source. Frank J. Oteri leads this thoughtful discussion about topics ranging from his teaching, prolific composition output, and Larry’s publishing company Frog Peak. This is a genuinely interesting piece that is as much a portrait of a composer as it is a philosophical point of departure.
In addition to the interview, there are video clips of Larry performing “34 Chords” on electric guitar by Dartmouth Emeritus Faculty Christian Wolff, and Larry’s composition entitled “Piker” performed by Larry and Margaret Lancaster on piccolo.
December 2, 2009 – 10:50 am
Th 3rd Dec. 7PM Spheris Gallery, Main St., Hanover.
Free and open to the public.
A concert by the Dartmouth Contemporary Music Ensemble featuring Dartmouth Music undergraduate and graduate students.
Program:
“Table Music” by Thierry de Mey.
Emily Schecter ‘12
Heewon Kim ‘10
Doug Perkins (Ensemble Director)
“Focus Score” by Seth Cluett.
Patrick Barter G’10
Joshua Hudelson G’11
Roth Michaels G’11
Chris Peck G’10
Paul Osetinsky G’10
Alex Wroten G’11
Seth Cluett will also play a short and solo laptop/ electronics set.
November 14, 2009 – 9:57 am
This coming Tuesday heralds the beginning of the Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, and Digital Musics faculty member Spencer Topel is participating both as a composer and as contributor for the American Music Center’s online music blog NewMusicBox. The institute, now in its 9th season, brings together seven emerging composers for a week of rehearsals, meetings, and a final concert on Saturday, November 21st at 8:00pm led by Music Director Osmo Vänskä.
The program, created by composer in residence Aaron Jay Kernis, is unique in that it devotes so many resources to sessions, meetings, rehearsals and a performance of brand-new musics. Among the handful of advocates for new music in America, Aaron stands out as one of the most generous. Learn more about the program here.
November 9, 2009 – 10:13 am
read the article on-line at: The Dartmouth’s Web site.
October 27, 2009 – 5:13 pm
Thursday Nov. 5th digital musics hosted the second of three on-campus concerts featuring works by Dartmouth students and faculty working in digital media. The performances take place in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall, in the space called Hovey’s Lounge, at 7PM.
The next concert will be on Thursday November 19th at 7PM.
October 26, 2009 – 7:19 pm
Sound and music search engines at the scale of the Internet are a now reality thanks to recent research and development by Dartmouth’s Digital Music Research Laboratory and Yahoo! Research. The search techniques and software were the focus of the opening tutorial session at the 10th ISMIR (International Society for Music Information Retrieval) Conference on Monday October 26th in Kobe, Japan. The presentation was by Professor Michael Casey and Dr. Malcolm Slaney.
Read more about the tutorial here.
Get the open source search engine software AudioDB.
October 19, 2009 – 5:39 pm
thursday oct 22 6:00pm spheris gallery 59 south main st hanover nh free
The third season of The Way to Go Out opens with Steve Reich Pendulum Music in a special site-specific performance that will make use of the Gallery’s architecture. It will also feature the Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab and special guests Devin Maxwell and Katie Porter. Devin and Katie will perform some of Devin’s own music along with some compositions by John Cage.
Devin Maxwell holds a BMA from the University of Cincinnati in percussion performance and an MFA from the California Institute for the Arts from the Performer/Composer program. His original expeirmental music is featured on the arsenic-free music CD “Four Trio” and his orchestra piece “PH1″ is being released on ERM Media’s Masterworks of the New Era Volume 14 later this year. His music has been performed by the Analog Arts Ensemble and at various universities. He has also composed commercial music for Disney, Nascar, Atlantic Records, and Donald Trump.
Katie Porter is a clarinetist, bass clarinetist, and performer of new chamber music in New York City. She is the co-founder of Listen/Space, a performance space dedicated to experimental music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Katie has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Utah, an Advanced Certificate from Centre Acanthes, and a Master of Fine Arts in Clarinet Performance from California Institute of the Arts.
The Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab is a collection of undergraduate and graduate students that perform and study music that is happening right now or in the recent past. This years Lab is working on a series of premieres of new works that will result from their International Call for Scores. Their year will culminate in a tour of the Northeast US.
