Sound and Music Computing Conference in Helsinki

I was excited to return to greater Helsinki to present my work at the Sound and Music Computing conference at Aalto University. I also got to record with some more of the terrific improvisers in the area! I performed Shankcraft with Sergio Castrillón, presented Raveshift (installation), and a paper on Ferin Martino.

Second Prize and Featured Lecture at Bourges

MusInfo’s Art & Science Days will include a new work of mine, commissioned as a result of wining Second Prize in the Concours de Bourges. They also asked me to give the featured lecture on relationships between art amd science. I’m looking forward to visiting MusInfo and meeting violinist Emma Lloyd (Scotland/Paris), who will premiere my new work, in Bourges, France!

Returning to the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia

I just received word that my work was one of 18 pieces (out of 200+ submissions from 35 countries) for the CEMI Circles festival tutus October at my alma mater, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia at the University of North Texas. I know the venue well for helping upgrade and run it as a doctoral fellow: it’s going to rock the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater with its 28.3 channel speaker system and three screens!

Arts Fellowship from TAMU’s Vice President for Research

It’s quite an honor to be one of seven TAMU professors in the Arts and the Humanities to be selected for a three-year fellowship. 

This fellowship will provide the last bit of funding for my first solo CD through Big Round Records (PARMA/Naxos), with Joe Hertenstein and free jazz guru Karl Berger performing my work along with me. It will also fund my second CD, with strings, including terrific performers like Ulrich Maiß!
Read about the fellowship on the Division of Research page. 

Third Prize in Music/Architecture Competition

Research Embodied, a site-specific intermedia performance created for the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library with designer Autum Casey was selected as a finalist from 70 international submissions, performed on October 19, 2011, and awarded third prize in the Music in Architecture—Architecture in Music symposium in Austin, Texas.