High Voltage w/ line upon line
EMDM is proud to present our latest edition of the High Voltage Concert series featuring line upon line percussion. Guest ensemble line upon line will perform works for percussion and electronics by LSU student composers Fiona Xue Ju and Jinxin Fu, along with new works by faculty members Stephen Beck and Christopher Trapani.
High Voltage w/ line upon line
2/20 @ 730PM
Digital Media Center Theatre
Event is free and open to the public
Formed in 2009 at The University of Texas at Austin, line upon line exists to champion living composers and pursue the musically unfamiliar.
The Austin-based group has premiered hundreds of new works for percussion and has worked with composers in residencies at Harvard University, Stanford University, Cal Poly, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Texas at Austin, Kunstuniversität Graz, University College Dublin, University of Huddersfield, University of Liverpool, City University of London and Monash University (Melbourne).
Internationally, the group has performed at New Music Dublin, the Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (Australia), Open Circuit Festival (Liverpool), Novalis Festival (Osijek), in Basel (Hochschule für Musik), Berlin (Unerhörte Musik), Cologne (Loft Köln), Freiburg (Hochschule für Musik), Graz (Open Music), Koper (Koper Biennale) and London (City, University of London), and has taught at conservatories in Melbourne, Sydney, Cork (MTU School of Music), London (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), Manchester (Royal Northern College of Music) and Tours (Le pôle Aliénor).
Nationally, line upon line has performed and taught in twenty-five different states, at two Percussive Arts Society International Conventions, the Festival of New American Music (Sacramento) and The Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT).
line upon line consists of Cullen Faulk, Matthew Teodori and emeritus member, Adam Bedell.