Nightlife 2 – Thursday – March 20, 2025 – 8pm – UCM Gallery of Art and Design – 217 East Clark

************************ CorpseboyJeff Kaiser, Keith Wecker, Anthony Cammarota Jeff Kaiser’s Corpseboy (I-Ching 7, six in the third place) is a shifting cast of improvising musicians performing Kaiser’s compositions from his portfolio bearing the same name. Jeff Kaiser is a composer, technologist, and performer who has been fortunate to perform and record with improvisors and composers from around the world throughout Europe …

Concert 3 – Thursday – March 20, 2025 – 7pm – Hart Recital Hall

************************ New Directions in Automobile Repair and Demolition Travis Garrison ************************ The Clarion Call of the Slughornthe Higgs whatever A rich vein of epic English-language poetry celebrates the slughorn, to blasts of which various armies once marched into battle.  Through meticulous archival and archaeological research of the armchair variety, the Higgs whatever have contrived to recreate the slughorn and its …

Concert 2 – Thursday – March 20, 2025 – 4pm – Hart Recital Hall

************************ Birdspiano and electronicsChristopher Cook Pianist Mary Hellmann finds that during her practice sessions at home, many birds will visit the open studio window. Although good musical company, there are some that will compete with the piano as they impressively display their melodic skills with increasing gusto. The result can be a somewhat chaotic but enjoyable cacophony. The electronic part …

Research 2 -Papers – Thursday – March 20, 2025 – 2:15pm – Grinstead 128

(Grinstead 128 is in the inside hallway going north from the foyer to Hart Recital Hall.) ************************ Overtone MusicLecture with musical examplesHubert Howe The fact that a collection of related frequencies is perceived as a single tone with a distinct timbre is a fact of musical perception, and a rich source for musical invention. Electroacoustic music allows us to compose …

Concert 1 – Thursday – March 20, 2025 – 1pm – Hart Recital Hall

************************ Vortex FieldsDanny Fratina Inspired by recent research on light’s inclination to array itself into vortices of choreography at the fentometric scale, “Vortex Fields” offers a sonic interpretation of light’s movement across surfaces. Designed for electronically augmented solo trumpet, motion tracking hardware digitally incorporates physicality in terms of flow, velocity, directionality, and intensity. Ultimately, with the contemplation that if light …

Research 1 -Papers/Workshop – Thursday – March 20, 2025 – 10am – Grinstead 128

(Grinstead 128 is in the inside hallway going north from the foyer to Hart Recital Hall.) ************************ VST Parameter Hacking for Dynamic TimbresEric Lyon This proposal is an annex to my main proposal of a concert performance of “The Adventures of Peter the Dolphin.” In the event that that piece is programmed, this demonstration would demonstrate some of the timbre …

Fixed Media – Thursday – Friday – March 20-21, 2025 – Electronic Music Composition Studio – Wood 003A Basement Level

************************ OBSessAllison Ogden The origins and title of this piece were entirely unintentional. While brainstorming ideas for a different composition, I began experimenting with oboe samples, applying various filters to them. I named the patch “OBSess” (Oboe + Session) without much thought. However, I found myself repeatedly returning to this patch, going down the well-trod computer music rabbit hole of …

Nightlife 1/Opening Party – Wednesday – March 19, 2025 – 7pm – UCM Gallery of Art and Design – 217 East Clark

************************ ELECTROGONGeurorack synthesis and gong speaker system with elements of electroacoustic percussionAaron Tyler Osborne / ELECTROGONG Utilizing modern implementations of technology developed in the 1930’s, gongs and transducers are used to transmit the sounds of improvised ambient music. Sounds are generated using input from a constantly changing array of eurorack synthesis devices  and electroacoustic percussion. ELECTROGONG is a solo project …

2025 MOXsonic Schedule Overview

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 Nightlife – 7pm Thursday, March 20, 2025 Social Time: 8:00am-9:45am – Java Junction Research 1: 10:00am-12:50pm Concert 1 – Thursday, 1pmPlease note: for concerts the last two numbers are channel count and duration Research 2: 2:15-3:15 Concert 2 – Thursday, 4pmPlease note: for concerts the last two numbers are channel count and duration Concert 3 – …