Saturday – March 7, 2020 – Social Time – 9am to 12noon – Art Gallery – UCM Art Center

Social Time – 9am to 12noon – Art Gallery espressoAcoustic 2020 KcEMAMarble, Meagan Conley, Trumpet & electronics, Alberto Racanati, Trumpet & electornicsSpencer Perkins, ElectronicsJohn J. Pearse, PerformerMark Applebaum, Composer (programmed piece)Tristan Perich, Composer (hopefully)Seth Davis, Guitar and Electronics Meagan Conley, TrumpetAlberto Racanati, TrumpetSpencer Perkins, ElectronicsJohn J. Pearse, PerformerSeth Davis, Guitar and Electronics KcEMA presents espressoAcoustic 2020! This year we are …

Friday – March 6, 2020 – Nightlife 2 – 8:30pm – Art Gallery – UCM Art Center

Nightlife 2 – Friday, 8:30 (approximately, following 7pm concert) – Art Gallery – UCM Art Center (20 minute sets) ***** The Choir Boys Tusalava The Choir Boys (Jeff Kaiser, trumpet/laptop; Andrew Pask, woodwinds/laptop) have a long term relationship with the animation of New Zealand artist Len Lye’s particular brand of mesmerizing/hypnotic work. First performing to Tusalava 15 years ago, Andrew …

Friday – March 6, 2020 – Concert 3 – 7pm – Hart Recital Hall

Concert 3 – 7pm – Hart Recital Hall ***** Through Hardships We Become Stars Conrad Kehn, music. Nicole Esquibel, video Conrad Kehn, voice Commissioned by The Playground Ensemble, Through Hardships We Become Stars is a multi-media work for spatialized audio, live vocals, percussion and video, that features manipulated ‘found object’ content from the Voyager spacecraft Golden Record. This material is …

Friday – March 6, 2020 – Concert 2 – 4pm – Hart Recital Hall

Concert 2 – 4pm – Hart Recital Hall ***** Improvising Machine #1347: Dances Apropos of Nothing, for Piano, Push 2, Melodica, Laptop, and Human Jeff Kaiser, composerAlbert Kim, piano and melodica The latest in Jeff Kaiser’s work using machines and humans that make their own decisions. Jeff Kaiser (Ph.D. in Music, Integrative Studies, University of California, San Diego) is a …

Friday – March 6, 2020 – Workshop – 2:30-3:30 – Studio A, Wood Hall

Workshop – 2:30-3:30 – Studio A – Wood Hall Listening to/through the body: a movement workshop for listeners Seah Seah’s training in somatic movement modalities such as Noguchi Taiso, Butoh, and Body Weather Laboratory is a spring board for feeling sound, listening to the interiority of the body, and moving with the sensationary experience of tone. seah is obsessed with …

Friday – March 6, 2020 – Concert 1 – 1pm – Hart Recital Hall

Concert 1 – 1pm – Hart Recital Hall ***** Dance for Princess Charis Grant Kory Reeder, Composer Kory Reeder, Piano Written as a dance, this piece is an invitation forchoreographed energy, excitement, and experimentation. Because ofthis, the notation is an invitation to improvise within the boundariesdescribed, and within the color pallet laid out in the score andelectronics. Kory Reeder is …

Friday – March 6, 2020 – Papers – 10:30am-12:00pm – Studio A, Wood Hall

Papers – 1030am-12:00pm – Studio A, Wood Hall – 20+10 for questions ***** Destructive and Inventive Instrument Development with IUPUI’s DISEnsemble Jason Palamara, primary author.Elaine Cooney, secondary author. Jason Palamara, paper presenter. This paper describes the recently developed Destructive and Inventive Systems Ensemble at IUPUI, an undergraduate performance group that challenges students to learn live ensemble performance, while simultaneously experimenting …

Friday – March 6, 2020 – All Day – Installation – Studio B, Wood Hall

Installation – Studio B, Wood Hall – All Day – Friday Only Involution: Hexanies Dave Seidel, electronics Involution is a generative piece for modular and computer synthesizers. It consists of slowly-changing sonorities that explore the harmonic spaces inherent in selected microtonal tuning schemes. These sonorities are formed using a combinatorial process that generates two-note chords (dyads). Complex chords bloom algorithmically …