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Controlling your own destiny
My Dad saved this workbook for me. There’s no date inside but the fonts suggest early 1990s. #ArtsEntrepreneurship
First Flight for Crow Chases Red-tailed Hawk
I’m excited to premiere a new work for invented instruments and electronics on Saturday as part of the Birmingham New Music Festival. Crow Chases Red-tailed Hawk uses bullroarers and other instruments that make sound when swung overhead on the end of a string. I’ve been working on prototypes for these instruments–whistles, buzzers, hummers, swoopers–for the last few months and this will be their first public outing.
Birmingham New Music Festival
Mostly Improv Night
October 12, 2019 at 7PM
East Village Arts of Birmingham
7611 1st Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35206
I need help naming the instruments, so please come to the show, listen, and give me your best suggestions for names.
EMM 2019
Privileged to have Susan Williams perform Sudden Swan at Electronic Music Midwest.
Rings a Bell
Brush Mind at the opening tonight with Hank Lazer. We miss you, Jane Cassidy!
2019 Faculty Biennial Exhibition
The University of Alabama’s Department of Art and Art History’s 2019 Faculty Biennial Exhibition opens today. I’m showing three works:
- Brush Mind: Second Hand – a collaboration with Jane Cassidy and Hank Lazer (a still from the piece is above)
- Pink Noise – a new piece of sound art
- A Work of Art for Every Entry in Index—Subjects—Library of Congress – a new piece of generative computer art
Two other new faculty are exhibiting work: Jonathan Cumberland and Wade MacDonald. Featured artists also include William Dooley, Allison Grant, Jason Guynes, Chris Jordan, Sarah Marshall, Giang Pham, Pete Schulte, Sky Shineman, Bryce Speed, and Craig Wedderspoon.
The exhibit runs through October 11, 2019. Hours are Monday through Friday 9:00am – 4:30pm. An opening reception will be held on Thursday, September 5 from 5-7pm.
Class Announcement
Ryan, we’re soundwalking. Wait here. Be back soon.
Sneak peek
Here’s something to puzzle over
…about the size of a… Birmingham New Music Festival
I’ll be performing …about the size of a fist and located slightly to the left of… at the Birmingham New Music Festival electroacoustic concert.
Thursday October 18 7:00pm
Birmingham New Music Festival
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hulsey Recital Hall
950 13th Street South
Birmingham AL
The piece is an improvisation (composed instrument?) using a custom mapping of an off-the-shelf MIDI fader box (the Korg nanokontrol2 pictured above). The typical position information of each fader/knob is ignored in favor of gestural information about how the control is manipulated over time. This transforms the controls into virtual bellows on a pump organ or springs in a wind-up toy.
I’ll also share the stage with Geni Skendo and LaDonna Smith for an improvisation.
Badstar at iCAT
I had a great time playing in the Badstar production last week at the Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology (iCAT) at Virginia Institute of Technology in Blacksburg, Virginia.
L to R: Zach Duer, Brandon Hale, Andre Foisy, Denver Nuckolls, Charles Nichols, Holland Hopson. Not pictured: Jon Rugh
And here are a few photos from rehearsals.
More documentation to come.