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Fall 2024 Seminar of Experimental Music

  • 8/30 | Welcome to Fall 2024
  • 9/6 | UG GROUP MEETINGS
  • 9/13 | break
  • 9/20 | UG GROUP MEETINGS
  • 9/27 | 1805 Project, ICMC & NIME
  • 10/4 | Meyer Cuestation and Cinema for the Ears – Dr. Allison
  • 10/11 | UG GROUP MEETINGS
  • 10/18 | Fall break
  • 10/25 | UG GROUP MEETINGS
  • 11/1 | break
  • 11/8 | Lindsey Hartman – Establishing the unique archiving and preservation needs of electroacoustic instruments/interfaces, Allison & Román – AI & Music Creativity Conference
  • 11/15 | UG GROUP MEETINGS
  • 11/22 | Morgan Weeks – Let’s Help the Player: The Supportive Audio of Video Games, Brandon LaFleur – Data Visualization in Post-tonal Theory
  • 11/29 | Thanksgiving Break
  • 12/6 | Final Presentations and End of the Semester visit to Chimes

All Presentations are held Friday, 3-420PM in the DMC Theatre (or next-door in DMC 1034) unless otherwise noted.

EMDM Concert Series

Cinema for the Ears

EMDM Ensemble
Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana
Louisiana Mobile App Orchestra
(EMDM-E | LOLs | LMAOs)

High Voltage

Fall 2024 CONCERTS:

  • Sept 7 – all guitars
  • Sept 21 – Yes We Cannibal 4:30 PM
  • Sept 26 & 27 – 1805 Project
  • Oct 4 – Tony Arnold
    • Yes We Cannibal after Tony Arnold
  • Oct 7 – CINEMA FOR THE EARS
  • Nov 5 – loadbang
  • Nov 6 – LOL concert
  • Dec 2 – RRNMM
  • Dec 5 – Erin’s Recital

General Calendar

Past EMDM Happenings

Past Seminars

Spring 2023 Seminar of Experimental Music

  • 1/19 | Welcome to Spring 2024
  • 1/26 | Electric LaTex Festival Preparation
  • 2/2 | Christopher Trapani presents a trio of recent works
  • 2/9 | Mardi Gras break begins
  • 2/16 | Immersive Audio Lab Creation
  • 2/23 | Guest composer James Mobberley
  • 3/1 | Interactive Digital Media Artist Daniel Rozin
  • 3/8 | Spring break begins
  • 3/15 | Spring break
  • 3/22 | Grad Student Presentations
  • 3/29 | Jesse Allison – DMC Theatre, Cuestation and Spacemaps
  • 4/5 | SEAMUS Conference 2025 – Electroacoustic Fais Do Do
  • 4/12 | Digital Design Showcase
  • 4/19 | Presentations
  • 4/26 | Presentations
  • 5/3 | Final Presentations and End of the Semester visit to Chimes

Spring 2022 EMDM Seminar

Fall 2021 EMDM Seminar

  • 8/27 – Welcome Back
  • 9/10 – Jesse Allison: Meyer Constellation and CueStation Seminar
  • 9/17- Video Production Seminar
  • 9/24 – Cinema for the Ears
  • 10/1 – Jesse Allison: Deep Listening to Important Electronic Music Pieces and Movements
  • 10/15 – Austin Franklin: Using MIR techniques in music for live electronics
  • 10/29 – Erin Demastes: mini performance of handmade instruments and a small installation, Treya Nash: compositions
  • 11/5 – Scott Nelson: , Matt Bardin: Creating an augmented performance tool, Taylor Stoddard: Music
  • 11/12 – Kenneth Gornor: Music, Traci Fowler: Music
  • 11/19 – Will Thompson: Eight Piano Etudes Speaks the Moody Machine, Luke Sands: Music, Dylan Burchett: Computer Chess
  • 12/3 – Henry Kiley: Liminality in Music + Liminal Spaces, Henry Grandbouche: music, Ka Hei Cheng: Sonification of genomic data and gesture-based performance

Spring 2021 EMDM Seminar

  • 1/15 – Jesse Allison: Overview of Audio Synthesis Languages
  • 1/22 – Jesse Allison: VCV Rack Overview, Edgar Berdahl: Tips for Video-Documentation of Music Projects
  • 1/29 – Bill Kelley: Analog Synthesis
  • 2/5 – Simon Hussain: How I made my first two songs in Ableton, Luke Sands: compositions
  • 2/12 – Kenny Gornor: Delay in pd and my music, Michael Blandino: Some Tools for Experimentation
  • 2/26 – Saida Joshua-Smith: Two Songs
  • 3/5 – Dylan Burchett: Intro to SuperCollider
  • 3/19 – Stephen Beck: CSound, Matthew Bardin: Making audio on the Nintendo Gameboy
  • 3/26 – Bobby Chedville: Experimental Music in Film Scores, Koby Schexnayder: Recording in Reason, Ka Hei Cheng: The Entangling Turner (Application of motion sensor in electronic musical instrument)
  • 4/9 – Will Thompson: An Infinitely Sustaining Piano Achieved Through a Soundboard-Mounted Shaker, Gabe Keowen: Sound Design with FMOD & Unity, Traci Fowler: Sounds of Space
  • 4/16 – Scott Nelson: , Elvis Bendaña: In Zoom: Creating music using Max, OBS & Zoom, Peter Tinker: Parametric Video Game Music in Max
  • 4/23 – Austin Franklin: Expressivity in Music for Robotic instruments, Mary Moore: Music, Keri Pertuit: Mixed Media & Interactive Music

Fall 2020 EMDM Seminar

  • August 28 | Welcome Back, Dr. Allison – Telepresence
  • September 4 | Chase Mitchusson – Unity Audio Mixer
  • September 11 | Matthew Bardin & Dr. Allison – Live Streaming w/ OBS Studio
  • September 18 | Week Off – C4tEars Tech Meeting
  • September 25 | Edgar Berdahl – Étude pour un ordinateur seul
  • October 2| Michael Blandino – How many degrees of freedom can we effectively control?
  • October 9 | Cancelled due to Hurricane.
  • October 16 | Ka Hei Cheng: EcoMusicology and Soundscape – Urban Remakes, Matt Bardin – Using networking to build a virtual space
  • October 23 | Saida Joshua-Smith, Will Thompson – Recurrent Neural Networks, MIDI Scores, and Speech
  • October 30 | Laptop Orchestra of Louisiana (LOL Concert Nov. 2 @ 7:30)
  • November 6 | Henry Kiley – The Abyss, Austin Franklin – Composing and Improvising Using Sound Content-Based Descriptive Filtering
  • November 13 | Tate Carson – immaterial.cloud: Using peer-to-peer technologies for music, Connor Underwood – Using the Leap Motion to Create an Augmented Piano
  • November 20 | Dylan Burchett – Affective Electronics, Scott Nelson – Capitulation to an Unholy Union
  • November 27 | Thanksgiving Break
  • December 4 | Post RRNMM presentations

Spring 2020 EMDM Seminar

  • January 17 | Welcome Back
  • January 25 | Chase Mitchusson: PAX South
  • January 31 | Global Game Jam!
  • February 7 | GGJ Recap?
  • February 14 | Valentine’s Edition
  • February 21 | Bill Kelley – Synthesis, Old School
  • February 28 |
  • March 6 | Will Thompson, Tate Carson
  • March 13 |
  • March 20 | DMC Theatre Sonic Tour and Meyer Constellation Training (High Voltage Concert April 1 @ 7:30)
  • March 27 | Spring Break
  • April 3 | Anthony Marasco: Bendit_I/O Workshop
  • April 10 | Good Friday
  • April 17 | Red Stick Festival – Podcast-a-looza
  • April 24 | Austin Thompson, Matt Bardin
  • May 1 | Post RRNMM presentations

Spring 2019 EMDM Seminar

  • January 18 | Tate Carson: presenting on his software and distributed cell phone piece Mesh Garden, Anthony Marasco:  Bendit.io – a circuit board he created for simplifying circuit bending musical applications
  • January 25 | Dr. Jesse Allison: Dream logos
  • February 1 | Game Jam Postmortem by Landon Viator, Chase Mitchusson & Others, Chase Mitchusson: game/work last semester Zandra
  • February 8 | Landon Viator: Plugin Development with JUCE and C#
  • February 15 | Tate Carson: Web based synthesizer design using Vue.js, Will Thompson: Telephone – networked computer composition
  • February 22 | Michael Blandino: ICMC Paper Presentation
  • March 1 |Day off, enjoy!
  • March 8 | DMC Theatre Sonic Tour and Meyer Constellation Training (High Voltage Concert that evening @ 7:30)
  • March 15 | Recording Studio Tutorial
  • March 22 | Anthony Marasco: Building Circuit Boards
  • March 29 | Jeff Mair, Smoking Gun Interactive, Redstick Digital Festival!
  • April 5 | James Foret – Ableton Live, Serum and the art of the Drop
    Kevin McCabe – Either snare, typewriter and fixed media piece or live video synthesis with Vizzie…
    Austin Franklin – Sax and Fixed Media
  • April 12 | Chase Mitchusson: Wwise and Unreal Audio Integration
  • April 19 | Spring Break
  • April 26 | Dr. Edgar Berdahl & ICMC Paper Presentations

Fall 2019 EMDM Seminar

  • August 30 | Welcome & Dr. Allison State of EM
  • September 6 | Studio Recap
  • Sept. 13 | Michael Blandino –
    Tate Carson & Anthony Marasco – report on NIME 2019!!!
  • Sept. 20 | DMC Theatre – Meyer Constellation & Cuestation
  • Sept. 27 | Will Thompson – #speak
    Thomas Wilson & Connor Underwood – EMM Review!
  • October 4 | Landon Viator – implementing differential equations in Max to synthesize chaotic oscillation
  • Oct. 11 | Tate Carson – Art & Music on the decentralized web. + student
  • Oct. 18 | Fall Holiday
  • Oct. 25 | Austin Franklin – Tactus
    Mary Moore – Music Based Gaming in Crypt of the NecroDancer
  • November 1 | Laptop Orchestra
  • Nov. 8 | Landon Viator – using Overleaf for conference papers,
    Bobby Chedville – Interstellar Invigoration – Video and Fixed Media
    Leigh Anne Robichaux – Exploring Live in the style of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
  • Nov. 15 | Chase Mitchusson | VR Lab
    Thomas Wilson & Matthew Bardin – TBA
  • Nov. 22 | Anthony Marasco – WAC & Bendit.io + Dr. Allison NexusHub
  • Nov. 29 | Thanksgiving
  • December 6 | Undergrads! post RRNMM
    Tamara Scott – TBD + Foley
    Gabriel Keowen – TBD