Electroacoustic Fais Do Do
April 5 & 6 the EMDM program at LSU is host to a series of events celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States.
The conference will present three (3) concerts focused on one of the three conference topics, each an area of research central to our current work at LSU:
- Cinema for the Ears (High Density Loudspeaker Array presentation of multi-channel fixed media)
- New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Music for Instruments and Electronics
Full information can be found here.
Water Dust
Water Dust w/ guest artist Patrick Chin Ting Chan
We are delighted to announce an upcoming concert featuring the work of Patrick Chin Ting Chan, fellow students from the Experimental Music & Digital Media (EMDM) program, along with dancers. The event is free and open to the public and will take place on March 8, 2024, at 7:30 pm in the Digital Media Center at Louisiana State University.
Water Dust is a concert-length piece composed by Patrick Chin Ting Chan, exploring the symbolic and aesthetic aspects of water and dust. Inspired by the contrast and connection between these elements, the piece embodies dualities such as purity and impurity, change and stagnation, emotion and reason. It pushes the boundaries between art and science, nature and culture, order and chaos, inviting the audience to immerse themselves in a fluid and organic world of sound and vision.
The work comprises 17 short videos. The graphics and sounds evoke imagery of water droplets, dust particles, and other microscopic phenomena, featuring abstract and distorted geometric patterns or waves in motion, employing two primary color groups: blue and brown. Accompanying the videos, a group of performers will improvise during or between the segments, responding to and reflecting on the audiovisuals to interpret the duality of these contrasts. The performers are encouraged to integrate into the collective sound of the audio materials.
Featured performers include:
Patrick Chin Ting Chan
Fiona X Ju
Ka Hei Cheng
Dominick L Licciardi
Irina Kruchinina
Drew Farrar
Dylan Burchett (Concert Technician)
For more information, please visit the website: http://www.chintingchan.com/water-dust1.html
Electric LaTex Festival 2023-24!
Welcome to the Electric LaTex Festival at LSU! A collection of sonic evenst, concerts and happenings from a collection of Louisiana and Texas Universities.
For more information about the festival, concert times and locations please visit the festival website.
Cinema for the Ears – SEAMUS Rhizome Event
LSU Cinema for the Ears – A SEAMUS 2023 Rhizome Event
Friday, March 24, 2023, 7:30 PM CDT
The LSU School of Music’s Experimental Music & Digital Media program, in collaboration with the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), will present a Cinema for the Ears concert, March 24, 2023, at 7:30 PM CDT in the Digital Media Center Theatre. The concert will also be live-streamed in binaural audio as part of the SEAMUS 2023 National Conference Rhizome Events.
The concert will feature fixed media works by Jesse Allison, Eric Lyon, Leah Reid, Ryne Siesky, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, and Stephen David Beck. The pieces were composed specifically for high-density loudspeaker arrays of 8, 16, and 32 discreet audio channels, and will be presented on the DMC Theatre’s 89-channel loudspeaker array.
Binaural Stream (listen with headphones): https://www.youtube.com/@lsuEMDM/live
Concert Program: 2023-03-24 Cinema for the Ears
High Voltage 2023
The EMDM High Voltage Concert is an Experimental Music and Digital Media bonanza where the experimental and the avant-garde reign supreme. The 2023 incarnation will feature live electronic, electroacoustic, and fixed media works of all kinds.
Works by Konstantinos Karathanasis, Jesse Allison, Brian Nabors, Erin Demastes, Treya Nash, Kerem Ergener, and Dylan Burchett
High Voltage 2023
DMC Theatre
February 24th, 7:30 PM
340 E. Parker Blvd
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
The LOLs 2022 – Reality Extended
This Halloween, the music crypt is opened and sounds-experimental emanate forth. The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana experiments with the interface between electronics and music, computers and performance. This Fall it has explored the concept of Extended Reality (XR) – the mixing of virtual and real spaces – hybrid worlds. In many ways music and sound design have existed in the realm of extended reality long before the term existed – the audience listening to music here in the present but transported to otherworldly destinations.
Come take an hour out of All Hallows Eve and join us for a concert of sci-fi sounds and experimental music. The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana will be performing a series of works that draw music from the ether – a radio static seance, 2-sentence horror stories, a plague of amphibians, screaming amps and more speakers than you could shake a chainsaw at.
Wear your costumes! And expect both tricks and treats.
DMC Theatre
730PM – October 31st
340 E. Parker Blvd
LOLs Touch by Ka Hei Cheng
LOLs: n-Dimensional Concert
Thanks for coming. To see the LiveStream check out the EMDM channel on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lsuemdm
An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the sphere. – Albert Einstein
Image from Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing by Henry Segerman https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:202774
Cinema for the Ears 2021
Cinema for the Ears is our annual concert of electronic and computer music composed for fixed media and presented in a multi-channel format. This year, we will be in person, presenting the concert on a 10.1 channel surround sound environment installed at the LSU Greek Theatre.
The concert will feature music by Kathleen Winn, Keri Devilynn, Austin Franklin, John Chowning, Edgar Berdahl, Jesse Allison and Stephen David Beck.
Bring your mask and join us for this unique socially-distanced electroacoustic performance.
530PM
Thursday, September 23rd
LSU Greek Theater
(Next to the Music & Dramatic Arts building)
If rain is threatening, we will hold the concert in the Digital Media Center Theatre. Giving everyone some time to get across campus, the concert would then begin at 6PM. Look for announcement here or on the Facebook page.
Dr. Beck in front of the 27.2 channel iCAST Sound Diffusion System
For more on Immersive Sound work at LSU, please visit our page on Spatialization and the ICAST system.