Nightlife 2 – Friday – March 20, 2026 – 8pm – UCM Gallery of Art and Design – 217 East Clark

************************ Eric Mandat Shrouded Angels Clarinet and electronics An imagining of the intersection of our corporeal selves and the interdimensional beings constantly moving around and within us, present yet hidden. For more than 40 years, clarinetist/composer Eric Mandat has been on the leading edge of  developments in multiphonic, microtonal, and timbral modulation possibilities for the clarinet. Through his explorations Eric …

Concert 3 – Friday – March 20, 2026 – 7pm – Hart Recital Hall

************************ Cory Brodack Karst guided improvisation for horn and live electronics Karst is a type of landscape that forms from the erosion of rocks like limestone. This forms features like sinkholes, caves, springs, and streams that go nowhere. Some of Missouri’s most beautiful landscapes and fascinating ecological areas are due to these formations. In this work, live processing is used …

Concert 2 – Friday – March 20, 2026 – 4pm – Hart Recital Hall

************************ Aleksandra Combs Time Machine Bass clarinet and electronics Time Machine is a piece that explores the relationship between time and space. Time Machine plays with this relationship by using custom delay objects with variable delay time and pitch shifting. The composer is in a duet with time, speeding up and slowing down the sound from their bass clarinet. The …

Research 2 -Papers – Friday – March 20, 2026 – 2:15pm – Grinstead 128

(Grinstead 128 is in the inside hallway going north from the foyer to Hart Recital Hall.) ************************ Nickolai V Zielinski Knob Twiddlers and Patch Cord Jockeys Local 2600  Toward a Labor Union of Electronicists/Improvisors Improvisors and experimental electronic musicians often navigate precarious working conditions, from inconsistent pay to limited visibility, while their contributions to the cultural landscape remain undervalued. This …

Concert 1 – Friday – March 20, 2026 – 1pm – Hart Recital Hall

************************ Aaron Crawford bitROT rUIn Drum Sensors, analog synths, electronics, and video manipulation bitROT rUIn blurs the lines between human intention and machine entropy that bridges physical performance with electronics. Deep, modular synth patterns programmed and manipulated in real-time using Make Noise analog systems interweave with distorted drum sequences, producing a dense sonic environment reminiscent of decaying hardware, corrupted memory, …

Research 1 -Papers/Workshop – Friday – March 20, 2026 – 10am – Grinstead 128

(Grinstead 128 is in the inside hallway going north from the foyer to Hart Recital Hall.) ************************ Seth Andrew Davis MacGyver’s Swiss Army Knife : Against Gear & Tech Fetishism and Towards a DIY/Practical Approach towards Music Tech Pedagogy MacGyver’s Swiss Army Knife is a historical deep-dive into a range of approaches toward performance and recording that have gone against …

Nightlife 1/Opening Party – Thursday – March 19, 2026 – 7pm – UCM Gallery of Art and Design – 217 East Clark

************************ Board of Regents From DEI to AI double bass, tenor sax, clarinet, electronics The Board of Regents deepen their work in service of the public. Ritwik Banerji is an experimental ethnographer, interactive media artist, and saxophonist. His work focuses on the development of artificial intelligence as a technology for ethnographic depiction, performance, and elicitation. He is currently writing a …

Fixed Media – Friday – Saturday – March 20-21, 2026 – Electronic Music Composition Studio – Wood 003A Basement Level

************************ Tom Wells Thomas Wells Hommage à Per Nørgård N/A My work pays tribute to the Danish composer Per Nørgård, whose Voyage into the Golden Screen for small ensemble (1968) has been identified as the first “properly instrumental piece of spectral music”. Nørgård’s music often features the use of the infinity series for serializing melody, harmony, and rhythm in musical …

2026 MOXsonic Schedule Overview

NameTitle(duration) (channel count) Thursday, March 19, 2026 Nightlife 1 – 7pm – Art Gallery (Total: 80 mins) Friday, March 20, 2026 Social Time: 8:00am-9:45am – Java Junction Research 1: 10:00am-12:00pm – Grinstead 128 Concert 1 – 1pm – Hart Recital Hall (63 mins) (43) Research 2: 2:15-3:05 – Grinstead 128 Concert 2 – 4pm – Hart Recital Hall (57 mins) …