This week completed the George Crumb festival on the CU campus, and it ended with an incredible 3 days with the Kronos Quartet. The world’s premiere contemporary string quartet was brought in by a partnership between the College of Music and CU Presents. They participated in a series of workshops (an Electronics Collaboration workshop, a [...]
My professor Michael Theodore is currently playing around with controlling physical objects with computers (using control voltages and micro controllers) and he sent me a video of an Arduino microcontroller affecting the playback speed of a tape player. This was awesome. So I looked at some of the other videos posted by this guy littlescale [...]
E.J. Posselius, for his Capstone Thesis project in the University of Colorado’s TAM program (Technology in Arts and Media), put on display an electronic player piano, or disklavier. He invited composers from CU (myself included) to write works for it, and he wrote a patch integrating Ableton Live and Max/MSP which allows the user to [...]
I’d like to direct you to the CU-Pendulum blog, which is a great resource for reading about issues confronting contemporary music at the University of Colorado, as well as the larger picture of classical/art music. Blogger Paul Hembree, one of the major contributors to the blog, mentioned a piece of mine alongside a discussion of [...]