2024 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: One other note: please observe that the hall is booked with back-to-back events …

Saturday, March 16, 2024, 8pm-Nightlife 3 – UCM Gallery of Art and Design – Art Center – 217 East Clark

Vinny Golia, Kevin Cheli, Seth Andrew Davis Electro-acoustic free improvised set between Kevin Cheli on percussion/electronics, Seth Andrew Davis on guitar and laptop/electronics, and Vinny Golia on various woodwinds. Seth Andrew Davis is an improviser and composer based in Kansas City, MO. Davis is involved in the improvised music/free improvisation, experimental, and electronic music scenes in Kansas City. Davis is …

Saturday – March 16, 2024 – Concert 6 – 7pm – Hart Recital Hall

Lisa Renée Coons—Chimera’s Garden—12:00 (s)Shanna Pranaitis, flute Chimera’s Garden is the newest in a series of works I call ‘narrative environment scores,’ and it was created collaboratively with Shanna Pranaitis. Narrative environment scores are born of a desire to establish a shared aural-visual world for the listener and performer that evolves temporally. The original physical score combined watercolor, ink, and …

Saturday – March 16, 2024 – Concert 5 – 4pm – Hart Recital Hall

Mark Phillips—Dream Dance—7:20 (s) Dreamy vocoders give way to an algorithmic synth groove, but only partially … and not for long. Mark Phillips (Ohio University Distinguished Professor Emeritus) won the 1988 Barlow International Competition for Orchestral Music, leading to collaborations with conductor Leonard Slatkin. His Violin Power appears on the SEAMUS 2015 conference CD. The World Saxophone Congress commissioned and …

Saturday – March 16, 2024 – Demonstrations: 2:30-3:30 (Utt 008, directly below Hart Recital Hall)

Ryan Gaston – Introducing the map02/21 Delta Scan Mapping Interface, An Instrument for the Exploration of Chaos & Emergent Nonlinear Control Mapping Structures This demonstration introduces map02/21 (2021–ongoing), an electronic instrument that explores the emergent properties of chaotic audio structures and arbitrarily re-mappable user input controls. map02/21 comprises two devices: the map02 Delta Scan Mapping Interface and map21 Multiple Vector …

Saturday – March 16, 2024 – Concert 4 – 1pm – Hart Recital Hall

Ben Fuhrman—Blue Echoes, Reflected—9:30 (8) Blue Echoes, Reflected was conceived as a fully interactive piece that explores exactly how far I can push my technique as a performer. Using the full extent of the mandolin’s range, it’s basically an extended solo that’s been heavily influenced by heavy metal guitar techniques and pedalboards, but it’s also fully interactive. Using MaxMSP and …

Saturday – March 16, 2024 – Five Minute Videos – 10:30am – Martin 125 (Digital Media Production Screening Room)

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. Jason Palamara – I turned my class into a reality show…here’s how it went In the Spring of 2023, I began a process of documenting every meeting of my undergraduate performing ensemble (DISEnsemble), in …