Recently I caught up with Kevin Austin to talk about his involvement with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Kontakte.

Stockhausen demonstrating the 4-channel technique used in Kontakte

He spoke at length about how the 4-channel version of the piece really alters a listener’s perception of the piece, and how Kontakte has presaged many other movements in [...]

Interview with Adam Tendler on John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes

Today I had the opportunity to speak with pianist Adam Tendler about his involvement with John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes.

A part of the preparation table for Sonatas and Interludes

Tendler has performed the Sonatas and Interludes all over the country, including a [...]

In this video, I talk with Michael Pounds, one of the creators of Displaced Resonance, an installation at SEAMUS 2009.

This is an excerpt from Calligraphy of Dynasties by Lorelei Tong. The full piece was presented at the 10am concert.

Calligraphy of Dynasties is an 8-channel electro-acoustic composition for Chinese calligraphy of Han dynasty, Tang dynasty, and Ming dynasty. The music tries to capture the drama of the characters being written, which are hypothetically [...]

I just arrived at the new Sweetwater facility for the SEAMUS National Conference 2009. The facility is amazing, and although I missed the first few events (darn timezones!), I am excited to hear all the other work that is being presented over the next three days.

Here are my first pics of arrival and [...]

Richard Zarou was at EMM presenting a piece titled Ad Vitam Aeternam. According to Zarou, the piece “explores the harmonic and textural possibilities of the same musical material simultaneously being performed at multiple tempos.” Stylistically, the composition draws heavily on his background in a church that still performs hymns in chant.

Here is the version [...]

On Friday morning at 10am, I was lucky enough to run into composer Nathan Kroms Davis at EMM. Despite the fact that neither of us was quite awake yet, he was nice enough to talk to me about his work and the piece he presented at EMM.

Nathan is a programmer and musician who specializes [...]

Earlier this year, we looked at how to read and write wav files in C++ and VB.Net, and C/C++ is really the natural choice for this kind of file IO (for a number of reasons that we won’t go into here). Nonetheless, not everyone uses C or C++ for computer music software. Increasingly, [...]