Music Copyright – All Rights Reserved
The School of Music, Center for Computation & Technology and LSU Libraries are pleased to host:
Laying down the beats, laying down the law:
Music & Media Copyright, Film Production, and Licensing
A presentation and Q&A with Gerald T. Olson and Darcee Olson that will answer questions for:
• Everyone who makes music and would like to make a living.
• Anyone who uses music in the production of their films, video games, dance productions, theatrical performances, youtube videos, podcasts, advertising, and more.
Tuesday, Nov. 26 @ 3PM
Digital Media Center Theatre
340 E. Parker Blvd.
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Gerald T. Olson, Jr. holds an MFA in film production and is currently teaching film production at Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Prior to teaching, he was a studio executive at HBO and New Line Cinema. He has produced and directed many films including Nightmare on Elm Street, Dumb and Dumber, House Party, and The Rundown. An active mentor, he has opened doors for current and former students to work on professional films.
Darcee Olson J.D., is Copyright and Scholarly Communications Policy Director at Middleton Library, Louisiana State University. She has 20 years experience in film and television, including Fox Television, Contracts Department, and the MPAA, International Copyright Division. Her legal studies included 3 terms at the Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University, focused on copyright law and policy. Prior to coming to LSU, she taught business and legal studies at an arts college in San Francisco.
LOL Concert of SciFi & Futurisma
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
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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
- Mara Gibson
- Stephen David Beck
- Jesse Allison
- Thomas Wilson
- Austin Franklin
- 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.
Cinema for the Ears 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
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Nina C. Young
Jon Christopher Nelson
John Young
Pauline Oliveros
Stephen David Beck
Jesse Allison
Elizabeth Knox
Charles Gray & Chase Mitchusson
Connor Underwood
– Deep Listening and the Music of Pauline Oliveros
– Spectromorphology in the Music of John Young
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
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.
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Laptop Orchestra Concert 2018
Come to the Laptop Orchestra Concert on Friday, Nov. 9 at 7:30PM in the School of Music Recital Hall.
At this noteworthy concert, the Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana will investigate the bounds of experimental music performance ranging from joystick music to alternative percussion to musical email. Featuring notable works by Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Margaret Schedel, and Ge Wang, as well as a group improvisation, Roman Jones’ interpretation of a composition by La Monte Young, and the composition You’ve Got Mail.
The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana is an ensemble of computer musicians. The LOLs perform contemporary electronic chamber music, using homemade software instruments and new digital interfaces. The LOLs have toured across the U.S. and performed at festivals such as the Symposium for Laptop Orchestras and Ensembles (SLEO) and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS). View videos at https://www.youtube.com/user/lsuEMDM
Currently, the course is listed as Music 4270 and titled EMDM Ensemble. Rehearsals/class meetings are Tuesdays from 3-6 PM in room 304 of the School of Music building. You must be a registered undergraduate (any major, AVATAR minor preferred) or a graduate student affiliated with EMDM to enroll.
The Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana explores a wide variety of experimental music techniques and music software design strategies. Working together, undergraduate and graduate students collaborate by performing each others compositions as well as assisting in helping develop them. For this, we are always looking to try out new, cutting edge approaches for interacting with music hardware or music software. Come find out what it’s all about!
Cinema For The Ears 2018
Our annual concert of massively-multichannel sound diffusion, Cinema for the Ears, will be held on Monday, Oct. 1, 2018 at 7:30PM in the 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.
Come prepared for a whole new kind of sonic experience! The Cinema For The Ears will wow you and delight you with digital music, video, and textures. Featuring compositions by Linda Antas, Stephen David Beck, Edgar Berdahl, Niloufar Iravani, Jean-Claude Risset and Hildegard Westerkamp.
2018 High Voltage Concert
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.
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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).
LSU Hosts Electric LaTex 2017, October 27-28
The Experimental Music and Digital Media (EMDM) Studio at Louisiana State University is pleased to announce that we will be hosting the 2017 Electric LaTex festival on October 27-28. Electric LaTex will include three concerts plus one late-night set of works by students from the studios of the University of North Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Tulane University, Baylor University, Loyola University, Rice University, and Louisiana State University.
The call for works has been sent out to all participating schools and is also available here. All submissions must be received by 11:59 PM on September 29. If you have any questions, please send them to electriclatexlsu@gmail.com.
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High Voltage Concert @ Red Stick International Digital Festival
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:
- Robot DJ – see you there.