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LOL Concert of SciFi & Futurisma

Posted by Jesse Allison on Oct 20, 2019

You may be alive, but what can you sing?

The 2019 Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana presents a program of science fiction envisioning the future by combining the future of art & technology – from 100 years apart. On the cusp of merging recorded sound and image, the experimental silent films of the 1900s created the iconic sci-fi tropes that we are familiar with today. The rocket countdown, androids, robots, lasers, voyages to the moon, mars, and space all came to light in this era. By employing electronics, acoustic instruments, laptops, and processed voice the LOLs will perform Live Scores to a selection of scenes from classic silent films bringing to life the flickering origins of Science Fiction.

Monday, November 4 @ 7:30PM
Digital Media Center Theatre
340 E. Parker Blvd.
Free and Open to the Public
LOLs Facebook Event

Le Voyage dans le Lune – Georges Méliès (1902)
Metropolis! – Fritz Lang (1927)
The Mechanical Man – André Deed (1921)
A Trip to Mars – Thomas Edison (1910)
and much more…

The sound of the future the past could not have imagined.
The future of the past never sounded so good.

Cinema for the Ears: Image and Music

Posted by Jesse Allison on Sep 13, 2019

What is the relationship between image and music? If you can hear what you see, what kind of music would emerge.

Our first concert of the 2019 season is a Cinema for the Ears exploring Visualization and Sonification in music – literally Seeing Sound and Drawing Music.

Come see Oscilloscope Music, listen to the Oramics Machine, hear the and witness a myriad of other explorations of Sound and Image from historical to now, but always ahead of their time.

Brought to you by LSU Composition & Experimental Music Faculty and Students:

Mara Gibson
Stephen David Beck
Jesse Allison
Thomas Wilson
Austin Franklin

With exhibitions and performances by:

Caitlin Horsmon, video
Eduard Teregulov, cello
Sabrina Parry, Violin
Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana on the Virtual ANS Synthesizer
Oscilloscope Music
Sound as Film
…and much more.

DMC Theatre @ 7:30 PM doors open at 7

Free and open to all.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2150071068626615/

Cinema for the Ears 2019

Posted by Jesse Allison on Mar 25, 2019

As part of the Red Stick Futurefest, the Experimental Music & Digital Media program presents a Cinema for the Ears – our concert of new electronic music and sonic art created by LSU students, faculty along with world-renowned composers. Works will be performed on the 92-channel loudspeaker array at the Digital Media Center Theatre. Be prepared for a unique and profound immersive audio experience.

Sonic Art Installations and Reception: 6:30PM
Concert begins at 7:30PM

https://www.facebook.com/events/852558948423849/

With works by renowned Sonic Artists:

Nina C. Young
Jon Christopher Nelson
John Young
Pauline Oliveros
Stephen David Beck
Jesse Allison
Elizabeth Knox
Charles Gray & Chase Mitchusson
Connor Underwood

Including special presentations on:

– Deep Listening and the Music of Pauline Oliveros
– Spectromorphology in the Music of John Young

As part of the Red Stick Festival there will also be an exhibition of Sonic Art installations and a reception preceding the event.

Hang Ups – Edgar Berdahl
Aberrations of Focus – Jesse Allison
Zen Garden – Bill Montgomery
Re-Sounding Wild – Chase Mitchusson

Sonic Art Installations will be available surrounding the DMC Lobby starting at 6:30.

2019 High Voltage Concert

Posted by Jesse Allison on Feb 12, 2019

The EMDM High Voltage Concert is the venue where the experimental reigns and anything can become music. The 2019 incarnation is coalescing around a theme of transmission & communication with pieces for cyber-hacked discman, a networked computer game of telephone, listening and learning machines, live electronics performance and more.

Works by Jesse Allison, Edgar Berdahl, Landon Viator, Chase Mitchusson, William Thompson, Anthony Marasco, and Margaret Schedel.

https://www.facebook.com/events/2280185692227882/

WHAT: HIGH VOLTAGE CONCERT

WHEN: March 8, 7:30 PM

WHERE: LSU Digital Media Center Theatre

FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

The Experimental Music & Digital Media High Voltage Concert this coming Friday is going to be Fantastic – in the broadest sense of the word. The concert is a musical exhibition of the strange.

There will be a virtual skeleton marimba performer, cyber-hacked music performed robotically on 2 Sony discman, an informance telling the audience about electronic music performance which will become the performance, a telephone game based laptop orchestra performance, and a sonic artwork of remembrance performed on ammunition boxes.

On top of all this, there is even a composition to listen to that can not be heard – through your ears!

If this is intriguing to you, or someone you know, come to our concert of High Voltage the Digital Media Center Theatre, Friday at 7:30 PM

EXTRA, EXTRA!!!

If you would like to see and hear more about how the 92 speaker digital media center theatre works, we have an EMDM seminar at 3PM March 8th where we will show the gory insides of a supercomputing system for immersive audio. It is free and open
to all.

(Composers, take note. If you would like to write something specifically for this space, now is your chance to get involved.)

https://www.facebook.com/events/2280185692227882/

https://www.cct.lsu.edu/events/lsu-high-voltage-concert

For CS students in particular, you may be interested in:

– Supervised machine learning for creating a percussion instrument out of an ammunition box

– Using a Kinect2 to control and animate a Skeleton model live in Unity

– A digitally fabricated instrument called the Hexapod which uses microphones to create a highly dynamic percussion interface

– Live audio processing and projection galore

– Controlling the 92 speaker Meyer constellation array in the DMC Theatre

– Bendit.io, a platform for hacking hardware and turning them into musical instruments

– and of course using haptic feedback to transmit music through your fingers instead of your ears

2018 High Voltage Concert

Posted by Jesse Allison on Feb 12, 2018

The LSU Experimental Music & Digital Media Program presents High Voltage, an eclectic concert of trans-media works interweaving live performers, acoustic instruments, and one-of-a-kind technology amplified to a higher plane.

Featuring Esteemed Guest Artist Amy Knoles performing her work 9:8:7:5:4:3:1 for live electronics and real-time video projection

Guest Performers: Griffin Campbell, Noelle Allison

With works from: Amy Knoles, Pete Stollery, Scott A. Wyatt, Tom Lopez, Edgar Berdahl, Jesse Allison, Chase Mitchusson, and Landon Viator.

The concert will be held at the LSU Digital Media Center Theatre – an intimate venue with a 92 speaker immersive sound system creating one of the most unique concert environments you may ever hear.

Friday, February 16, 7:30 @ the DMC Theatre
The concert is free and open to the public.
Facebook Event for High Voltage

Along with the concert, EMDM is proud to host Amy Knoles who will be giving a presentation about her work in electronic percussion and her approach to composing and performing with electronics at 2:30PM in the Digital Media Center Theatre. This event is also free and open to the public.

Amy Knoles, Associate Dean and Interim Head of Percussion and Faculty of Electronic Percussion at the Herb Alpert School of Music at CalArts, has headlined on major festivals throughout the world. Her music has been described as being of: “frightening beauty, fascinating, complex” by National Public Radio and she is described as “Los Angeles’ new music Luminary, infinitely variable, infinitely fascinating” by the Los Angeles Times.

Amy is a recipient of: the ASCAP Foundation “Composer-in-Residence at the Music Center of Los Angeles”, the Meet the Composer “Commissioning Music USA”, the American Composers Forum Subito Grant, the Durfee A.R.C., the Lester Horton Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Original Music for Dance”, the “UNESCO International Prize for the Performing Arts-2000”, the “Individual Artist Fellowship Award” from C.O.L.A, the “Composer in Residence” Grant from the American Composers Forum, among many other awards.

Knoles was the Executive Director of the California E.A.R. Unit for thirty years (awarded the “Letter of Distinction” from the American Music Center), which had been the Ensemble in Residence at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for nineteen years, subsequently finishing off their series at REDCAT (The Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater).

High Voltage Concert @ Red Stick International Digital Festival

Posted by Jesse Allison on Apr 25, 2017

LASM Planetarium 5PM Sunday, April 30 (Concert is free and open to the public)

High Voltage is a highly charged concert of Experimental Music and Digital Media. Trans-media works delve into the intersection of technology and culture mixing live performers, interactive video and electronics, acoustic & electroacoustic instruments, and technology – amplified to a higher plane.

Featuring:
Griffin Campbell performing Lights Starkly Different by composer Robin Heifetz & a special performance of the classic saxophone and tape piece Voilements in remembrance of Jeane-Claude Risset.

and Sonic Artists:

Edgar Berdahl
Jesse Allison
Danny Holmes
Eric Sheffield
Anthony Marasco
Kathy Winn
Chase Mitchusson
Michael Blandino

Come hear them excite the SupraSpatializer, incite Grass-Electro & virtual doom and drone metal, ignite an IR-Light-Read Record player, draw heavenly tones from the Augmented Harp and witness the Virtual Krewe of Vaporwave unleash Dick Joskey, Robot DJ.

Performance at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum Planetarium at 5PM Please come early as seating is limited.

This performance is part of the 2017 Red Stick International Digital Festival. For other events and more information please visit:

http://redstickfestival.org

: Robot DJ – see you there.

High Voltage Concert @ Ebb & Flow 2017

Posted by Jesse Allison on Mar 30, 2017

Featuring:
Griff Campbell performing the premier of Lights Starkly Different from composer Robin Heifetz

Sonic artists:

Edgar Berdahl
Jesse Allison
Danny Holmes
Eric Sheffield
Anthony Marasco
and
Michael Blandino

Excite the SupraSpatializer, Grass-Electro, virtual doom and drone metal, an IR-Light-Read Record player and The Virtual Krewe of Vaporwave presenting Dick Joskey, Robot DJ.

Performances at Noon and 3PM in the Old State Capitol

https://www.ebbandflowbr.org

Robot DJ

Cinema for the Ears Concert

Posted by Jesse Allison on Jan 19, 2016

Our annual concert of massively-multichannel sound diffusion, Cinema for the Ears, will be held on Monday, January 25, 2016 at 7:30 in the new 92-speaker Digital Media Center Theater. This concert is FREE and open to the public. It features electronic music compositions and sonic art by internationally renowned composers, EMDM students, and LSU faculty.

In conjunction with the CCT Digital Media Center, the Experimental Music & Digital Media program presents a musical experience that you can find no where else. Feast your ears upon high definition sound projected over a palette of 92 speakers, which transports you to spaces unknown. Come experience this one-of-a-kind concert of sonic art featuring compositions of real and imagined soundscapes — from classic electroacoustic music to pieces composed specifically for the DMC Theatre. Centered around a theme of Acoustic Ecology and music of our planet, let this music take you on a journey without bounds, a true Cinema for the Ears.

John Chowning
Hildegard Westerkamp
Matthew Burtner
Stephen David Beck
Jesse Allison
Edgar Berdahl
Matthew Blessing
Andrew Pfalz
Kathy Winn
Eric Sheffield
& Anna Weisling

Digital Divide EMDM Concert

Posted by Jesse Allison on Sep 17, 2015

Digital Divide is a concert of works by sonic artist and EMDM faculty, Jesse Allison. This term is typically applied to the divide between those who have and use technology and those who don’t. This concert explores the digital dichotomy in the musical realm, teasing apart the continuum between acoustic and electronic instruments, analog recordings with synthesized data, and technology that enables the audience to engage in the performance. Utilizing the 92-speaker and 4K projection in the DMC theatre, pieces range from tuba and glockenspiel to iPads, poetry, dance, and the Moon. Come enjoy this free event that is truly one of a kind.

Guest Artists:

Digital Media Center Theatre
340 East. Parker Blvd.
Thursday, September 24th at 7:30

Free and open to the public.

Click here to explore the concert website.

EMDM Academy Summer Camps

Posted by Jesse Allison on May 19, 2015

The music world has changed in amazing ways with the integration of technology. Whether you like laying down guitar tracks for a blues album or sequencing beats for a movie trailer, participating in the music scene today is a lot smoother if you know a little technology.

In the Experimental Music & Digital Media program at LSU, we like to take tech to the extreme, but everybody needs to start somewhere. Join us this summer for our EMDM Academy summer camps where we mix equal parts music making, interactive technology, composition, recording, film scoring, computer programming, and performance! We offer two camps that will treat your ears as well as your mind to the field of music.

Girl’s Rock 2015

http://cct.lsu.edu/GirlsRock2015 <- Register here!

June 15-19 – Girls grades 6-9 Integrating the Arts with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics is what this camp is about. Experiment with wildly new instruments; compose music as a band and invent notation to write down your ideas; record, edit and engineer music for video; perform your own music with new friends. In this camp we make technology accessible and expose musical topics through projects that cover the entire week. These girls gain the skills and confidence to create video, music, and perform. In short, they Rock! This summer, join us and learn to make technology sing commercial water slides for sale.

Programming Music Summer Camp

http://cct.lsu.edu/ProMusic2015 <- Register here!

July 27-31, All experience levels from grades 9-12 (Students grade 6-8 will be allowed to enroll if they’ve had some computer experience – the Girl’s Rock or other CCT summer camps are excellent primers). Experience a mixture of science and the arts in this one-week camp designed for curious minds with musical interests. Learn to program in javascript to live code music in a web browser. Learn to make your own web audio instruments in Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Music topics like composition, musical form, and notation will be covered eventually forming groups and honing musical performances. Final projects will be performed at a live concert at the conclusion of the week. Participants will learn how to publish their instruments and performances through the web.