EMDM Academy Summer Camps
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.
Girls Rock! Sound Engineering Camp 2014 from EMDM Academy on Vimeo.
Maker Faire New Orleans 2015
At the Mini-Maker Faire New Orleans 2015, we hosted a table except while we were performing outside!
High Voltage April 27 & 28 – End of Semester Concert
Our end-of-semester concert series, High Voltage, will be held on April 27 and April 28, 2015.
Concert I will be held on April 27 at 4:30 p.m. at the LSU School of Music Recital Hall. The concert will feature class projects of the Introduction to Computer Music class.
Concert II will be held on April 28 at 6 PM in the Digital Media Center 72-channel sound theater, and will feature compositions from the following classes: Advanced Computer Music, Seminar in Experimental Music & Digital Media, and applied lessons in Experimental Music & Digital Media.
Cinema for the Ears, Monday, February 23, 2015
Our annual concert of massively-multichannel sound diffusion, Cinema for the Ears, will be held on Monday, February 23, 2015 in the new 72-channel Digital Media Center Theater. This concert is FREE and open to the public. It features electronic music compositions and sonic art by EMDM students and faculty.
NIME 2015
The EMDM Program at LSU is proud to announce that we are hosting the 2015 Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression. We have quite a year ahead of us and hosting NIME will be the perfect conclusion. Baton Rouge, get ready!
High Voltage Concert: Monday April 28, 2014
Our semester-culminating High Voltage concert, a showcase of student acousmatic electroacoustic compositions, is upon us! The concert will take place Monday 28, 2014 at 4:00 PM at the LSU School of Music. This year’s concert features Collin Babb, Kaley Carroll, Laurel Chauvin, Matthew Depaula, Charles Ian Doucet, Joseph Dumas, Trey Duplantis, Rashad Grace, Ritchie Hofmann, Chase Hoselle, Dominick Licciardi, Harold Mims, Rob Reich, Victoria Simmons, Rachel Smith, Vindotco Torns, Brandon Turner, and Jack Weinnig.
Maker Faire New Orleans 2014
Here are some of the students’ projects from the Mini-Maker Faire New Orleans in 2014.
Annual ambisonic 72-channel concert is April 7 in new LDMC Theater
Music by Jeffrey Albert, Danny Holmes, Trey Duplantis, Philip Schuessler
Stephen David Beck, Rick Snow, Yemin Oh, Kari Besharse Ben Taylor, Zak Berkowitz, Jesse Allison, and Edgar Berdahl.
Cinema for the Ears on April 7
Our annual massively multi-channel concert, Cinema for the Ears, approaches! We are tremendously excited for this year’s concert, which will be the first to use our new 72-channel sound theater at the brand new Louisiana Digital Media Center. The concert will feature multi-channel works by undergraduate students, graduate students, professors, and visiting artists. Mark your calendars!
EMDM Students @ NSEME
EMDM graduate and undergraduate students presented this March at the national conference NSEME (National Student Electronic Music Event) held at Georgia Southern.
Trey Duplantis showed his installation “Goodness Gracious” which is a version of the video game Galaga that is played by a piano. The artwork was written in the Processing programming environment.
Will Conlin showed VOX (2013) for two vocalists and two iPad’s controlling Max/MSP with OSC.
Nick Hwang had his composition Dracones Nursery for augmented saxophone performed.
Yemin Oh performed his work Synesthetic Moment for piano and live electronics.