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:
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
Robot DJ
The National Student Electronic Music Event was created by and for students as a forum for peers to share ideas, collaborate, and expand the boundaries of the electronic music field.
EMDM is proud to be the host of this year’s National Student Electronic Music Event.
All NSEME events will take place March 10-11, 2017 in the LSU School of Music Recital Hall and Digital Media Center Theater. The events are free and open to the public. Keynote presentations will be given by Bora Yoon and Paul Koonce.
More details about concert times and programs will be posted as the event approaches.
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.
In 2017, our concert featured guest composer Paul Koonce.
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.
Our setup!
We hosted a table at the Baton Rouge Maker Faire to share our music and communicate with the public about opportunities to get involved with Cultural Computing.
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
We hosted a table at the Baton Rouge Maker Faire to share our music and communicate with the public about opportunities to get invovled with Cultural Computing.
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:
Joe Skillen | Tuba
Brett Dietz | Percussion
Vincent Cellucci | Poetry
Frederick Ostrenko | Digital Art
Sandra Parks | Choreography
Robert Kooima | Visualization
and the Louisiana Mobile App Orchestra
Digital Media Center Theatre
340 East. Parker Blvd.
Thursday, September 24th at 7:30
Free and open to the public.
Join us for an interactive lesson in experimental music techniques! In this session, you will get to try out the powerful granular synthesis technique for digitally sculpting sound. It’s the musical analog of pointillism! You will slice, dice, reorganize, and completely transform familiar sounds to create new, experimental sounds. In the workshop, you will micro-sample and completely mash-up Who Let The Dogs Out?, Gangnam Style, or What Does The Fox Say? or a song of your own choosing.
• For teens: Tuesday, July 28, 2015 2PM-4:30PM at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library on Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA
• For 20-somethings: Saturday, June 13, 2015 2PM-4:30PM at the East Baton Rouge Parish Library on Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA
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.
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.
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.
Girls Rock! Sound Engineering Camp 2014 from EMDM Academy on Vimeo.
At the Mini-Maker Faire New Orleans 2015, we hosted a table except while we were performing outside!
