2023 MOXsonic Soundcheck Schedule

Soundcheck Details: Please read the following closely: We have a system in place to assist in quick smooth/transitions between our back-to-back concerts. Following these protocols will benefit you and the people coming after you by giving all access to a nice setup, soundcheck, performance, and tear down: Thank you all so much! Thursday – March 16, 2023 Opening Night Party …

Saturday, March 18, 2023, 8pm-Nightlife 3 – UCM Gallery of Art and Design – Art Center – 217 East Clark

Paul J. Botelho The work of Azorean-American composer and performer Paul J. Botelho includes acoustic and electro-acoustic music, multimedia installation pieces, visual art works, vocal improvisation, and several one-act operas. He performs as a vocalist (countertenor) worldwide primarily through extended vocal techniques. His recent work explores vocal responses to composed and prerecorded sonic environment and includes In Moscow We Marched …

Saturday – March 18, 2023 – Concert 6 – 7pm – Hart Recital Hall

Revenant (Glitchscape) Eric Honour, composer/performer My older work, Phantasm, for alto saxophone and computer, was rooted in an even earlier work of mine for solo saxophone. I was struck by the idea of a revenant – a sort of fragmentary remnant of a ghost – and the somewhat tenuous connections between an existing recording and a new, granularly processed version …

Saturday – March 18, 2023 – Concert 5 – 4pm – Hart Recital Hall

Voices in the Skin Alexandria Smith, composer/performer (trumpet and wearable electronics) I have built an artistic practice cultivated at the intersection of my foundation as performer and improviser with my experience as a technologist, audio engineer, and researcher. To explore this interdisciplinary terrain, I have built an apparatus that integrates my diverse experience and interests; a second skin (what I …

Saturday – March 18, 2022 – Papers 2 – 2:15pm-3:45pm

Music Technology Studios, Wood Hall (Basement Level) gen~ and the GO Book: A Birds-Eye View Gregory Taylor The recent Cycling ’74 book “Generating Sound & Organizing Time: Thinking with gen~ Book 1” is about the astonishing things you can do when you work at the atomic sample-by-sample structure of digital audio. This talk will introduce the gen~ environment to new …

Saturday – March 18, 2023 – Concert 4 – 1pm – Hart Recital Hall

Interdependency 23 (for piano and computer) Travis Garrison, composer/performer Point, counterpoint. Action, response, feedback. Who controls whom? Travis Garrison is a composer, audio engineer, and performer of electroacoustic music, and serves as Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Music Technology at UCM. He was previously on the faculty of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and worked as an audio …

Saturday – March 18, 2023 – Five Minute Videos – 10:30am

Martin 125 (Digital Media Production Screening Room, just walk in by the same area we had the “Transition to Nightlife” on Friday) Five-minute Videos follow the idea of “Show us your research, quickly!” and are intended to be fast introductions to research areas with a follow up discussion. Raspberry Rainbow Synth Clay Chaplin The Raspberry Rainbow Synth is a DIY …

Friday, March 17, 2023, 8pm – Nightlife 2 – UCM Gallery of Art and Design – Art Center – 217 East Clark

Tunnel Diode Fluxfor clarinet and electronics Eric Mandat, clarinet Aligning and misaligning the flow of electrons Eric Mandat is recognized worldwide as one of the foremost authorities on clarinet extended techniques. He tours frequently as a concert soloist, and for 15 seasons he was a member of the Chicago Symphony’s MusicNOW ensemble. For nearly 30 years Eric was a member …

Friday – March 17, 2023 – Transition to Nightlife…

This is on the pathway through the middle of campus heading to the art gallery… Stranded Cosmos Alex Goldwasser, modular and video synthesizers In pondering the vastness of it all, the possibility presents itself: things could be finite. In the meantime, various perceptions of reality morph and change until things seem as if brand new. Alex Goldwasser is a composer …