2025 MOXsonic Schedule Overview

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Nightlife – 7pm

  • Aaron Tyler Osborne / ELECTROGONG • ELECTROGONG • eurorack synthesis and gong speaker system with elements of electroacoustic percussion • Gongs are speakers • 15
  • SWO (Savino Go, Will Judd, Olive Harlan) • Baritone Saxophone, Live Electronics, Live Video • Stereo • 12
  • Daniel Karcher • Unstable Alloy • concerto for no-input mixing board • Stereo • 15
  • Indicative of Drumming • Drums and lektronix  • Or such • Mono • 20
  • Total: 82 mins

Thursday, March 20, 2025

Social Time: 8:00am-9:45am – Java Junction

Research 1: 10:00am-12:50pm

  • Eric Lyon • VST Parameter Hacking for Dynamic Timbres • Stereo • 20+5
  • Victor Zheng • Fork • Stereo • 20+5
  • SiHyun Uhm • Illuminating Neural Pathways: Transforming Brain Activity into Generative Audio-Visual Experiences • Stereo • 20 + 5
  • Duo Lingua • Duo Lingua and Bogotana Records • A collaborative project • Stereo • 20+5
  • Jiayue Cecilia Wu • Embodied Sonic Meditation Workshop for Musicians’ Wellbeing • Stereo • 50

Concert 1 – Thursday, 1pm
Please note: for concerts the last two numbers are channel count and duration

  • Danny Fratina • Vortex Fields • Mono • 5
  • Chin Ting Chan • 52 Blue • lap steel guitar and electronics • 7 • 9
  • Jeff Albert • Is that what I said? • Improviser and computer • Stereo • 5
  • Nolen Liu • seabeams • for live electronics and visuals • Stereo • 4
  • Mickie Wadsworth • Mirror, Mirror, • Voice and Live Electronics • Stereo • 6
  • Mark Phillips • Waiting  • EWI and Kyma • Stereo • 6.5
  • Carter Crosby • Toothache • Stereo • 7
  • University of Louisville Electro Acoustic Ensemble • Yo banana boY • Stereo • 4.5
  • Total: (29) 49 mins

Research 2: 2:15-3:15

  • Hubert Howe • Overtone Music • Lecture with musical examples • Stereo  • 20+5
  • Ryan Gaston • PATCH: Computer Language Design in Donald Buchla’s Instruments • Stereo • 20+5
  • Jon Forshee • Synthesizer Works of Éliane Radigue: Compositional Design and Pitch-class Consciousness in Long Duration Music

Concert 2 – Thursday, 4pm
Please note: for concerts the last two numbers are channel count and duration

  • Christopher Cook • Birds • piano and electronics • Stereo • 5
  • Eric Lyon • The Adventures of Peter the Dolphin • 4 • 15
  • Ashkan Tabatabaie • Time Traveler • e-guitar, electronics, and projection. • Stereo • 6.5
  • Timothy W. McDunn • Fantasy for Vagrant Clarinet • Stereo • 8
  • CAPJAWS (Christopher Poovey and J. Andrew Wright Smith) • Electroacoustic Thingamajig No. 1 • Stereo • 8
  • Drew Farrar • Ouija • for 2 violas and live electronics • Stereo • 10
  • Rodrigo Cadiz • Ellipsis • for arcontinuo and video • Stereo • 6.5
  • Total: (24) 60 mins

Concert 3 – Thursday, 7pm
Please note: for concerts the last two numbers are channel count and duration

  • Travis Garrison • New Directions in Automobile Repair and Demolition • 7
  • the Higgs whatever • Kerry Hagan and Miller Puckette • The Clarion Call of the Slughorn • Stereo • 10
  • Zeynep Özcan • Juggling for Beginners • Live electronics • 8  • 10
  • Alan Wenger • From Here  • for trumpet and electronics • Stereo • 8
  • Yao Hsiao • Daiyu • voice, iPad, and live electronics • Stereo • 5
  • Ben Fuhrman • Spiraling • live improviser, computer, and generative video • 8 • 9
  • Cecilia Suhr • Human vs. Transhuman: Act one • Voice and Live Electronics • Stereo • 9
  • Total: (26) 58 mins

Nightlife, 8pm

  • Corpseboy • Jeff Kaiser, Keith Wecker, Anthony Cammarota • 8 • 20
  • Chainsaw Fugue (Andy Au & Per Bloland) • tumulus clusters • for lap steel feedback banjo and live video • Stereo • 15
  • Sarah Belle Reid, Ryan Gaston, and Vinny Golia • Falls Apart Two Days Later (Oh Well) • Improvisation for homemade electronic instruments, amplified trumpet, woodwinds, and laptop • 4 • 20
  • Board of Regents: Ritwik Banerji, Jean-Francois Charles, Will Yager • bass, clarinets & electronics, tenor sax & electronics • Stereo • 20
  • Total: 75 mins

Friday, March 21, 2025

Social Time: 8:00am-9:45am – Java Junction

Research 3: 10:00am-12:50pm

  • Johanna Devaney, Daniel McKemie, Alexander Morgan • PYAMPACT: A SCORE-AUDIO ALIGNMENT TOOLKIT FOR PERFORMANCE DATA ESTIMATION AND MULTI-MODAL PROCESSING • Mono • 20+5
  • Alexandria Smith • Building a Body of Work through Queer Feminist Co-Composing • Stereo • 20+5
  • Seth Andrew Davis • A Cybernetic Approach • Cybsersyn, improvisation, and the development of artificial agents • Stereo • 20+5
  • Varun Kishore • These Weird Objects • Fragments and Narrative Organization in Oneohtrix Point Never’s ‘Freaky Eyes’ • Stereo • 20+5
  • John Thompson • Live coding in Strudel  • A browser-based javascript approach • Stereo • 50

Concert 4 – Friday, 1pm
Please note: for concerts the last two numbers are channel count and duration

  • Tommy McPhee • Windows • For live electronics • Stereo • 5
  • Dan VanHassel • Aftershock • for piano and electronics • Stereo • 7
  • Tony Lewis • Point Blank • Live processing/ electronics  • Stereo • 4
  • Andrew Walters • Volts and Kettles • for Modular Synthesizer and Fixed Media • 4 • 6.5
  • Tyler Rumore • Burgonian Daydream • For trumpet and electronics • Stereo • 6
  • Nathan Wheeler • Nusuth (extended version) • 8 • 8
  • Total: (26) 37 mins

Research 4 — Five Minute Videos: 2:00-3:45

  • Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner • A Lot Has Changed in 20 Years [Yet Much Stays the Same] • Considerations for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Crossing the Line: Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States
  • Gregory Taylor • Strange Attractors
  • Johanna Devaney, Daniel McKemie, Alexander Morgan • pyAMPACT (Python-based Automatic Music Performance Analysis and Comparison Toolkit)
  • Nickolai V Zielinski • Flattening Musical Hierarchies  • You Should Be Improvising More
  • Timothy W McDunn • Archinovica
  • Rodrigo Cadiz • TBD
  • Zeynep Özcan • TBD

Concert 5 – Friday, 4pm
Please note: for concerts the last two numbers are channel count and duration

  • Treya Nash • Whisper • for audience with cellphones  • 8 • 5
  • David Aguila and Natalia Merlano Gómez • Caldera • trumpet, voice, and electronics • stereo • 5
  • Jeremy Muller • Radio Swan • maracas and electronics • Stereo • 10
  • Brad Decker • Out of the Ground, Into the Sky • for B flat Clarinet and Computer • Stereo • 8
  • Elisabeth Stimpert and Doug Nottingham • Double Music 2024 by Barry Moon and alejandro t. acierto • 8 • 7
  • Maxwell Miller • Antithesis (this is the part where I scream) • Guitar, Voice, and Electronics • Stereo • 8
  • Nolan Hildebrand • generative open graphic score #1 • Stereo • 6
  • Total: (28) 49 mins

Concert 6 – Friday, 7pm
Please note: for concerts the last two numbers are channel count and duration

  • Eric Honour • Rushpusher • for live electronics • 8 • 7
  • Jay Batzner • Five Bagatelles (about buildings and food) • for toy piano and mini-synths • Stereo • 8
  • Alex Smith • Ode to My VW Golf • For percussion, voice, and electronics • 4 • 5
  • Anna Meadors • Rude Solo Light • for saxophone & no-input mixer • Stereo • 8
  • Alexandria Smith and Caroline Miller • Oxyluciferin • Voices, trumpet, and electronics • We will be sending two stereo feeds that we would loved diffused through 8 • 8
  • John Thompson • Intertwine • for audiovisual system and drum machine • 8 • 8
  • Total: (32) 44 mins

Friday Nightlife, 8pm

  • Camry Ivory • Coloratura – Hydrosonic Soundscapes • paintbrushes, water, electronics • Stereo • 10
  • Kate Olson • More Than A Backing Track: Let the Machine Decide • Chaotic Loops In a Saxophonist’s World • Mono • 20
  • Eli Fieldsteel • Live Coded Improvisation • Flexible. Stereo • 20
  • Seth Andrew Davis and Will Yager • Improvisation for electric guitar, double bass, and electronics • 4 • 20
  • Total: 70

Duration of the Festival

Fixed Media

  • Allison Ogden • OBSess • 8.1 to 8.4 • 13 minutes
  • Daniel McKemie • Coda • Stereo file, diffused through 8.4 • 4 minutes 13 seconds
  • Dietrich Hitt • Piano • fixed media  • Stereo • 8 minutes 14 seconds
  • Fabio Fabbri • Ruah • Two-channel work for fixed media. • Stereo • twelve minutes and forty seconds.
  • Hsuan Chang Kitano • H & H • 4.1 to 4.4 • 3:47
  • Indigo Knecht • shoulder to shoulder • Stereo file, diffused through 8.4 • 10 minutes
  • Jason Richmond • I Think I Lost My Marbles • Stereo • 8 minutes
  • Jiayue Cecilia Wu • Virtual Mandala
  • Jon Forshee • TOCSINS REDUX • for Computer-generated Sound • Stereo file, diffused through 8.4 • Five minutes
  • Nate Krebs • From Below • Fixed Media • 5.1 to 5.4 • 5 minutes
  • Tate Carson • Veins of the Earth • 8.1 to 8.4 • 15:26
  • William Bender • lit up head in a wide room, my eyes are open but in the key of e-flat major • For Fixed Electronics • Stereo • 2:42
  • Wyatt Cannon • 7 • 8.1 to 8.4 • 5 minutes
  • Xiaogang Xiang (Agan) • Call of Nowhere • Stereo fixed media • Stereo • 8m
  • Xuanqi Liu • SĀN • Fixed media  • Stereo • 7 minutes