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Kevin Austin Lecture on Stockhausen’s Kontakte

evan — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:48:34 +0000

Browsing the most recent issue of the SEAMUS newsletter, I noticed a link to a recorded version of Kevin Austin’s lecture on Stockhausen’s Kontakte. In this lecture, Austin breaks down Kontakte, and tries to make the piece listener-friendly. At SEAMUS 2009, he also handed out a packet, which contains his listening notes for the piece. These notes guide the listener through Austin’s 38 subdivisions of the piece, giving the listener cues for each moment of the work.

Here is the listening guide in pdf form, so that you can follow along with Kevin Austin’s lecture on Kontakte.

I am going to try and get Kevin on the phone for an interview later this week.

Final Notes on SEAMUS 2009

evan — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:04:01 +0000

50th Anniversary of UofI Experimental Music Studios

At the end of his presentation on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios, Scott Wyatt handed out a 4-CD set of music produced in the studios. It’s a pretty comprehensive collection, containing tracks from composers like Lejaren Hiller, Herbert Brun, Sever Tipei and Scott Wyatt. But it also contains some nice gems from composers who I was only vaguely familiar with.

The 4-CD set is certainly one of the nicest freebies that I’ve ever gotten at one of these conferences.

The 4-CD set handed out by Scott Wyatt

More Coverage of SEAMUS 2009 on Other Blogs

Nathan Edwards, one of my travelling companions, has posted some nice pictures and blog posts about the conference.

Asymmetry Music Magazine just posted a rundown of last year’s conference, and I know that they will be posting a review of this year’s conference shortly.

The SEAMUS 2009 Program

If you’re still curious about what you missed, you can get the SEAMUS 2009 program from the Sweetwater site. It’s worth browsing, just to get an overview of the music that was presented.

Later this week I will be posting a few final links related to the music at SEAMUS, if I can manage to track down a few more recordings.

Tesla Coil Demo from SEAMUS 2009

evan — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:09:22 +0000

The final event of SEAMUS was a musical demonstration of a pair of tesla coils. It was an amazing demo, and it was lightened up by an interruption from a streaker.

Video by Nate Edwards

Pictures From Friday at SEAMUS 2009

evan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:05:59 +0000

This is Christopher Ariza giving an interesting talk on a pioneer of algorithmic composition who was previously unknown to me: Sister Harriet Padberg

And this is Scott Wyatt speaking on the 50th anniversary of The University of Illinois Experimental Music Studio.

And here is just another sound check.

ViPer by Tae Hong Park

evan — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:03:44 +0000

At the 10am concert, one of the more interesting pieces was Tae Hong Park’s ViPer. The piece was scheduled for a live performance, but at the last minute, the performers were unable to be there. So we listened to a recorded version, which was still quite compelling.

This piece has no program notes, and the only note online reads “for violin, drum kit and 7 channel tape.”

ViPer by Tae Hong Park