Minnesota Orchestra and NewMusicBox

Aaron Jay Kernis

This coming Tuesday heralds the beginning of the Minnesota Orchestra Composers Institute, and Digital Musics faculty member Spencer Topel is participating both as a composer and as contributor for the American Music Center’s online music blog NewMusicBox.  The institute, now in its 9th season, brings together seven emerging composers for a week of rehearsals, meetings, and a final concert on Saturday, November 21st at 8:00pm led by Music Director Osmo Vänskä.

The program, created by composer in residence Aaron Jay Kernis, is unique in that it devotes so many resources to sessions, meetings, rehearsals and a performance of brand-new musics. Among the handful of advocates for new music in America, Aaron stands out as one of the most generous.  Learn more about the program here.

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Digital Harvest review in “The Dartmouth”

read the article on-line at: The Dartmouth’s Web site.

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Digital Harvest Concert, Thu. 29th Oct., 5th Nov., 19th Nov.

Thursday Nov. 5th digital musics hosted the second of three on-campus concerts featuring works by Dartmouth students and faculty working in digital media. The performances take place in the basement of Thayer Dining Hall, in the space called Hovey’s Lounge, at 7PM.

The next concert will be on Thursday November 19th at 7PM.

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Digital Musics and Yahoo! Research in Kobe, Japan


Sound and music search engines at the scale of the Internet are a now reality thanks to recent research and development by Dartmouth’s Digital Music Research Laboratory and Yahoo! Research. The search techniques and software were the focus of the opening tutorial session at the 10th ISMIR (International Society for Music Information Retrieval) Conference on Monday October 26th in Kobe, Japan. The presentation was by Professor Michael Casey and Dr. Malcolm Slaney.

Read more about the tutorial here.
Get the open source search engine software AudioDB.

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Devin Maxwell and Katie Porter

thursday oct 22 6:00pm spheris gallery 59 south main st hanover nh free

The third season of The Way to Go Out opens with Steve Reich Pendulum Music in a special site-specific performance that will make use of the Gallery’s architecture. It will also feature the Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab and special guests Devin Maxwell and Katie Porter. Devin and Katie will perform some of Devin’s own music along with some compositions by John Cage.

Devin Maxwell holds a BMA from the University of Cincinnati in percussion performance and an MFA from the California Institute for the Arts from the Performer/Composer program. His original expeirmental music is featured on the arsenic-free music CD “Four Trio” and his orchestra piece “PH1″ is being released on ERM Media’s Masterworks of the New Era Volume 14 later this year. His music has been performed by the Analog Arts Ensemble and at various universities. He has also composed commercial music for Disney, Nascar, Atlantic Records, and Donald Trump.

Katie Porter is a clarinetist, bass clarinetist, and performer of new chamber music in New York City. She is the co-founder of Listen/Space, a performance space dedicated to experimental music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Katie has a Bachelor of Music from the University of Utah, an Advanced Certificate from Centre Acanthes, and a Master of Fine Arts in Clarinet Performance from California Institute of the Arts.

The Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab is a collection of undergraduate and graduate students that perform and study music that is happening right now or in the recent past. This years Lab is working on a series of premieres of new works that will result from their International Call for Scores. Their year will culminate in a tour of the Northeast US.

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Call for Scores

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Dartmouth College Contemporary Music Lab
Call for Scores
Deadline:  November 1, 2009

Are you a composer?  Have you ever been frustrated by a string quartet refusing to get into a canoe?  Or perhaps you’ve found yourself wishing that a flautist was more willing to give soldering a try?  Are your scores impossible to Xerox because they’re made of hazardous materials?

Send them to us.

The Dartmouth Contemporary Music Lab is currently seeking new scores and proposals for its 2010 season.

The Lab is directed by Doug Perkins (formerly of So Percussion) and consists primarily of graduate students from the Dartmouth Digital Musics program.  We perform a wide variety of experimental musics, new and old.  Last year’s season included premieres of works by student composers alongside fresh interpretations of pieces by Christian Wolff, John Cage, Michael Gordon, and Larry Polansky.

We are:
- musicians who play a variety of traditional and non-traditional acoustic and electro-acoustic instruments*
- programmers and engineers with expertise in many music technologies+
- composers and improvisers who delight in new aesthetic challenges

We are looking for:
- new music from composers whose work requires creative aesthetic and technical approaches
- intriguing proposals for intermedia happenings (sound installation, sound poetry, sound choreography, sound cuisine)
- collaborations that challenge traditional divisions of labor and accepted production hierarchies

Please contact Lab librarian Chris Peck for more details:  chrisp (at) dartmouth (dot) edu

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* flutes, guitars, voice, chapman stick, cracklebox, vibraphone, drumset, percussion, piano, synthesizers, theremin, toys, kitchen utensils, etc.
+ low and high level audio and video programming, hardware hacking, physical computing, software development for mobile devices, audio recording, live sound reinforcement, multichannel audio, firearms, web development and networking, metal and woodworking, etc.

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Digital Musics in NYC

photo by Joanne Cheung

photo by Joanne Cheung

Second-year Digital Musics grad student Chris Peck recently completed a run at the Chocolate Factory Theater that included collaborations with choreographer Milka Djordjevich and new text-sound compositions related to his thesis research.  Read the preview in Time Out New York and the review in The New York TImes.

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Music Innovators’ Series 2009

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Our Series is now concluded. We hope to have documentation and excerpts of the talks for the 2009 Innovators’ Series posted on our site in coming months.  Please check back periodically for updates and thank you all who participate, helped out, and attended these events.

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Digital Musics 2009 Spring Undergraduate Showcase

Undergraduate Spring Showcase

Please join us for a showcase of works by students of my Music 024 class. The event is free and open to the public.

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Festival of New Musics Recap

After a busy two weeks, our new music festival is complete and we are preparing for digital archiving. In addition to great concerts and visits from the UK by performers Chris Redgate and David Casal, Charles Dodge was mentioned as “a pioneer of computer music, who made important contributions to American music” on NPR’s “All Things Considered” on the day of his concert at Spaulding Auditorium. Great work to all involved!

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