Composer Bios
Sang Mi Ahn
Sang Mi Ahn is a composer of both acoustic and electro-acoustic mediums. Her electro-acoustic works have recently been performed at the 2013 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the 2013 Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, and the 2012 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference (NASA).
Ahn enjoys collaborating with performers because she believes that a synergetic approach often results in works that are deeply informed by the performers’ experiences. Ahn is also interested in extending the sound world of her acoustic works by using techniques inspired by the acoustic possibilities of electronic music. In her dissertation-in-progress, Valley of Dry Bones, she explores the use of peripheral noise as a way to express both the physical and spiritual environment describing the resurrection of dry bones in the biblical passage from Ezekiel 37.
Ahn’s recent awards include the 31st Republic of Korea Composition Prize, the 2013 Heckscher Foundation - Ithaca College Composition Prize, the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize at the 2013 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music, the prize for the 2011 Women Composers Festival of Hartford International Composition Competition, and second prize at the Sixth International Musical Composition Contest held by the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport.
She is currently studying with Dr. Claude Baker and will complete her doctoral degree in Composition at Indiana University in May 2014.
Aaron Anderson
Aaron Anderson is an undergraduate Music Composition/Music Technology major currently studying at Ball State University. As a composer, Aaron is primarily interested in computer music. This year (2013), his works have been played on 3 conferences: Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Electronic Music Midwest (EMM), and the Electro Acoustic Barn Dance. Pending graduation in the spring of 2014, Aaron will be continuing with post-graduate study.
Ioannis Andriotis
Ioannis Andriotis (Greece, b. 1983) is a DMA candidate at the University of Oklahoma -‐ USA. As both a person and a contemporary artist, he aims to expand his academic and cultural knowledge in order to better understand the role and importance of art in today’s society. His works examine and emphasize human relationships/interaction, as well as the unique cultural qualities that every individual carries. For the artist, the journey through sound and silence functions as a means of self-‐exploration, and serves as an elegant communication between him and the audience.
Doug Atcheson
Doug Atcheson is currently a student at Georgia Southern University acquiring his bachelor degree in music education. He is currently studying under Dr. Matt Fallin, emphasis in percussion. He is involved in such ensembles as: Georgia Southern University Wind Ensemble, Georgia Southern University Jazz Band, Southern Pride Marching Band, and Georgia Southern University Percussion Ensemble. He has held leadership positions in many of these ensembles as well. Recently, Doug wishes to continue his education further and to attain a master's degree in Music Technology.
Jon Bellona
Jon Bellona is an intermedia artist specializing in digital technologies. (http://jpbellona.com)
Jon's work explores the musicality of data-driven instruments. Because data-mapping techniques have not been culturally codified, new works may alter our pre-conceived notions about performer and performance. Jon's approach is to develop expressive models for instruments through cognitive perception, dynamic coupling of parametric sound elements, and the generation of music that values narrative and form over exposition and the eccentric.
Jon's music and intermedia work have been shown internationally including KISS (Kyma International Sound Symposium); SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States); IMAC (Interactive Media Arts Conference); SLEO (Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras); and FMO (Future Music Oregon) concerts. Jon received his M.Mus. in Intermedia Music Technology from the University of Oregon, audio engineering degree from the Conservatory for Recording Arts & Sciences, and B.A. from Hamilton College. Jon is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Composition and Computer Technologies (CCT) at the University of Virginia and is part of the art collective, Harmonic Laboratory (http://harmoniclab.org).
Thomas Rex Beverly
Thomas Rex Beverly, born 1988, is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas where he received a bachelor’s degree in music composition. At Trinity, he studied with Timothy Kramer, David Heuser, Jack W. Stamps, and Brian Nelson. Beverly studied abroad in fall 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. There he studied composition with the Czech composer Michal Rataj and researched contemporary Czech music. He completed a Master of Arts in Teaching for Music Education at TrinityUniversity and for the past two years he has taught as the Band and Choral Director at KIPP Aspire Academy in San Antonio. He has had pieces performed at the SCI Region VI Conference, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival, the CFAMC National Conference, National Student Electronic Music Event at Temple University, Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College and his piece Ringing Rocks for wind ensemble and electronics was just selected as a winner of The Score Project Competition for new wind ensemble music. He is currently attending graduateschool at Bowling Green State University in their Master of Music Composition degreeprogram where he is a Music Technology Teaching Assistant.
Matt Bryant
Matt Bryant is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. He received his B.A. in Music Technology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). There, he held leadership positions in multiple ensembles and graduated with multiple honors including Most Outstanding Student in the Department of Music. Bryant is currently working on his M.M. in Music Technology at Georgia Southern University.
He enjoys exploring soundscapes and rhythms as well as experimenting with nontraditional techniques on acoustic instruments.
Yari Bundy
I was Born in Illinois, raised in Arizona. I received my undergraduate degree from Arizona State University in Italian Language and culture with a minor in Communications. Studied West African drumming extensively and had the opportunity to travel to Senegal twice with Dr. Mark Sunkett on his Drums of Senegal Project. Each trip the focus was on meeting and learning from local percussionists and documenting different rhythms and songs to be performed later in his African drumming class. I was heavily involved in the music scene in Tempe, Arizona where ASU is located. I played in numerous bands, everything from old-time jug band (where I played the wash tub bass) to experimental electro-acoustic free jazz. Two of these groups, Human Mirror and Yourchestra were actively touring bands that traveled throughout the United States. Though my musical background is quite varied, I have been focusing on electronic music for the last 10-12 years.
I am currently working on my masters degree at Mills College in Oakland, California. I am in the Electronic Music and Recording Media department and am focusing on the transformation and re-contextualization of sound. Recently my work has dealt with extracting sound from everyday objects. I am finding new ways to extract sound using various methods and techniques that allow me to listen to objects that my ears would normally not be able to hear ( i.e. contact microphones and inductor microphones). Future projects will combine these new found sounds with that of my more traditional percussive background.
Chin Ting Chan
Raised in Hong Kong, composer Chin Ting (Patrick) Chan (b. 1986) has gained awards and recognitions from the Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art, Soli fan tutti Composition Prize, American Prize, Association for the Promotion of New Music, Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music, MMTA/MTNA Commissioning Project, newEar Composers’ Competition, New-Music Consortium, Portland Chamber Music Festival Composers Competition and UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competitions. His music has been performed throughout the world at the Artscape Wychwood Barn in Toronto, Darmstadt State Theatre, Echoraum in Vienna, Seoul Arts Center, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Brevard Music Center, in conferences and festivals such as the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, 12 Nights of Electronic Music and Art, BulldogBytes Concert Series, Electronic Music Midwest, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, FEASt Festival, GAMMA- UT, SCI National and Regional Conferences, as well as those by BGSU, CSUF, KcEMA, NEW MUSE, New Music Forum, PARMA Recordings and UAH, among others, by groups such as the Bel Cuore Quartet, Boston New Music Initiative, Color Field Ensemble, ensemble39, Nonsemble 6, Tower Duo and Zeitgeist, and has been recorded and published at the Darling’s Acoustical Delight label and Melos Music, LLC. Some upcoming performances include those with Ensemble Pi, Puget Sound Piano Trio, Strike! Duo and the Tower Duo.
Chan holds degrees in composition from San José State University (B.M.) and Bowling Green State University (M.M.). He is currently a Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellow 2013-14 and instructor of electronic music at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. His mentors have included Chen Yi, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Marilyn Shrude, Burton Beerman, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Brian Belet and Pablo Furman. He is a founding member of Melos Music and Panta Rhei New Music Collective, and he serves on the board of directors of KcEMA. In 2013, he has been a computer music designer at IRCAM, working with Grégoire Lorieux and Carlo Lorenzi on updating the Max patch of Mauro Lanza’s Burger Time (2001).
Jason Charney
Jason Charney writes music for voice and orchestral instruments as well as electroacoustic and interactive media, often combining them. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in composition at Bowling Green State University, where he studies with Elainie Lillios. Jason is a recipient of the Allen Strange Award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), a Hatz Special Recognition Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs, and has twice been a finalist for an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer completed a degree in composition and theory at the University of Kansas, where he studied with Forrest Pierce and Kip Haaheim and received the Cius Award for outstanding student composer.
Ian Clarke
Ian Michael Clarke is a junior studying music composition at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Currently a student of Claude Baker, he has studied traditional composition with Don Freund and Sven-David Sandström, as well as electroacoustic composition with John Gibson and Jeffrey Hass.
Ian has been recognized for his compositional efforts as a 2010 California Arts Scholar in Music Composition and in conjunction with his academic achievements as a 2011 recipient of the prestigious Wells Scholarship. Through his affiliation with the Wells Scholars program, he secured a grant in the summer of 2012 which he used to travel to Australia and conduct research on the 20th century composer John Antill, uncovering and retrieving several rare and otherwise undiscovered scores.
Ian's music has been performed at CalArts, Indiana University and the surrounding Bloomington area, Temple University for the N_SEME New Music Symposium 2013, at the Atlantic Music Festival, at the Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival, at the 2013 Midwest Composers' Symposium, and at Princeton University, where he had the fortune of writing for the incredible So Percussion quartet. Over the course of June 2013, Ian lived in Paris and studied electroacoustic composition at IRCAM, participating additionally in IRCAM's Manifeste Music Festival.
As a composer, Ian loves the idea of creating "synesthetic music." He approaches this idea both externally by working on multimedia projects, including film score, multi-channel electronic sound art, ballet, and performance art, and internally by synthesizing other art forms into abstract and/or algorithmic ideas to be realized musically. Separate of his more avant-garde pursuits, Ian also has an intense interest in creating a new music language and aesthetic that is both intriguing to those who involve themselves in the new music world and accessible and enjoyable for those who are unfamiliar with it.
William Conlin
William Walker Conlin is a composer, saxophonist and media technologist. Since 2011 he has held an annual Experimental Music Concert Series in Baton Rouge. At LSU in the Experimental Music and Digital Media PHD program, Mr. Conlin works to create compositions for: laptop orchestra, fixed media, video, interactive installations, art collaborations and more. In 2013 he presented at the inaugural TEDxLSU with his friend and colleague Nick Hwang. Their presentation is a manifesto of electroacoustic musicianship.
Mr. Conlin was born in 1987 in Durham, North Carolina, where he grew up. He attended attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for high school and college, studying saxophone performance. In 2013 he completed his Masters in Saxophone Performance at Louisiana State University.
Nathan Corder
Nathan Corder is a composer and guitarist currently living in Tampa, Fl. Nathan is currently pursuing degrees in composition and philosophy at the University of South Florida. Nathan's works, ranging from chamber ensembles to interactive computer music, have been performed nationwide.
Keenan DuBois
Keenan DuBois is a composer and electronic musician from the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Although he was introduced to formal music study through classical piano at the age of seven, he abandoned the performance route to pursue a more flexible artistic direction, and found an outlet in the creative freedom of electronic music in his high school years. DuBois’ music is strongly influenced by his surroundings; his compositions draw strongly on themes of natural beauty and memory, tempered by a strong interest in computer science and the technical side of music production. Currently, he is a sophomore at Oberlin College & Conservatory in Ohio with plans to major in Computer Science and Technology In Music and Related Arts. His recent projects have included a collaborative dance piece, development of live electronic instrument patches, and various fixed media performances.
Trey Duplantis
Born in New Orleans and raised in a number of southern locales, Trey Duplantis is Louisiana State University's first undergraduate student in Experimental Music and Digital Media. He is interested in creating new musical interactive experiences that bridge the gap between musical performance and the act of playing video games; he also creates fixed media works that draw inspiration from Pierre Schaeffer, Denis Smalley, and J Dilla.
Melody Eotvos
Melody Eötvös is an Australian composer currently residing in Bloomington Indiana, USA, and is undertaking the final year of her DMA at the Jacobs School of Music where she also serves as an Associate Instructor in Composition and Music Coordinator for the Composition Department. She has studied with a variety of composers across the globe, including Dr. Gerardo Dirié (Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Australia, BMus(hon)), Simon Bainbridge (Royal Academy of Music, London, 2006-07, MMus), Dr. David Dzubay (Jacobs School of Music, IU, DMA) and has been the recipient of various awards including the 3MBS National Composers Award (2009) an APRA PDA (2009), & the Soundstream National Composer Award (2012). She has had her music performed by ensembles/orchestras such as the London Sinfonietta, BBC Singers, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian String Quartet. Previous education includes BMus(hon) at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Australia (2006); MMus & LRAM at the Royal Academy of Music, London (2008); MA(phil) at the University of Queensland (2009).
Eddie Farr
Eddie Farr holds a BA in music (saxophone) and is a graduate student in Music Technology at Georgia Southern University. His interests include saxophone, science fiction, and electronics. He has performed, with Alex Sellers, at the 2012 Navy International Saxophone Symposium and with the Georgia Southern Saxophone Quartet at the 2011 NASA Region 6 Conference.
Jon Fielder
Jon Fielder is a composer of electroacoustic and acoustic music, all of which shows a strong interest in timbre, texture, spatialization and narrative. His music is often inspired by his love of natural landscapes, such as the echoing of the Ohio River valley and the windy flatland of Northwest Ohio. He also draws inspiration from his interest in various topics of science and mathematics (chemical reactions, psychopharmacology, Markov chains), from manipulations of the human voice - both spoken and sung - and from literature.
Jon's music has been featured at the SEAMUS conference (2013), the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Electronic Music Midwest, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, the CEMIcircles Festival, the 2012 IDRS Conference, the Northern Ohio Music Exchange (NOMA) concert at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Olmsted Festival of the Arts, and inclusion in the Alex Sramek call for scores for the Voxnovus 15-Minutes of Fame series (Sublimation). Jon was also the first recipient of the Mark Phillips Distinguished Professor award for composition in 2009 (Ohio University).
Jon is active as a researcher and music theorist, his primary topics of interest being music of the New Complexity school (particularly Franklin Cox and Brian Ferneyhough) and post-1945 Darmstadt composers, namely Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Jon received a M.M. degree in composition from Bowling Green State University, and B.M. degrees in both composition and theory from Ohio University. He is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in composition at the University of Texas-Austin under the study of Russell Pinkston and Donald Grantham. Previous composition instructors include Elainie Lillios, Mikel Kuehn, Franklin Cox, Mark Phillips and Christopher Dietz.
Cory Gehrich
My name is Cory Gehrich. I'm a 25 year old MFA student in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College in Oakland, California. I obtained my BA from the University of California San Diego in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts through the Music Department, where I studied with Tom Erbe and Miller Puckette. My focus at UCSD was mainly in computer music programming and audio engineering. My undergraduate thesis project, “In the Midst of Misery,” a thirty minute piece in 5.1 surround sound, won the most creative work award in the music department.
I began playing guitar at the age of twelve and immediately formed a band, whom I continued to play with for the next eight years. I was introduced at a very young age to the world of teenage-rock-and-roll; playing at dive bars on school nights (we had to wait outside but fortunately the bartender would supply us with pitchers of coke) and doing ten hour recording sessions. It was during our sessions in the recording studio that I realized that being in a dimly lit room all day making music is really not a bad deal; I've never been much of a beach guy anyway.
Six years ago, my interest in the group waned, and I began making home recordings of music I was working on and taking audio recording and electronic music classes at various community colleges. I have since written and recorded many songs/pieces in many different genres, and just self-released my first EP under my indie/alternative rock monicker. However, I have been completely inspired since having been introduced to electroacoustic (“tape”) music.
My work generally begins with real instruments or found sounds; I haven't been using many hardware or software synthesizers in my work (I only own one synthesizer – a cheesy 1980's Casio), but when I do, I program them myself in Pure Data (Pd), or more recently, SuperCollider. I've recently been working on pieces involving prepared electric guitar as well as new techniques for playing the guitar, which is then running through a Pd workstation I'm developing, inspired by Pauline Oliveros' Expanded Instrument System.
Morgan Greenwood
Morgan Greenwood (b. 1993) is a composer, percussionist, improviser, and drummer currently studying music composition at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance in Kansas City, Missouri. His compositions seek to infuse the musical language and form of contemporary concert music with the tenacity, intent, and collaborative spirit of the jazz, rock, and metal he grew up listening to and playing. His works have been performed publically by newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and the H2 Saxophone Quartet. His duo for flute and clarinet, Orphisms, was selected for a public reading by members of Eighth Blackbird in late 2012. Morgan studies composition with Chen Yi, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, and additionally with Nicholas Omiccioli. He studies percussion with Nick Petrella and performs regularly with the IMP Music Ensemble and the UMKC Percussion Ensemble. When not composing, Morgan enjoys cooking, cross-country running, and playing drums in his band Riala, also based out of Kansas City.
Mitchell Hermann
Mitchell Herrmann is an undergraduate student attending Oberlin College and Conservatory, majoring in TIMARA and Cinema Studies. His work has explored the intersections between experimental film and electroacoustic music, with a focus on combining influences from digital animation and acousmatic sound. He currently studies composition with Peter Swendsen, and film with Geoff Pingree.
Drew Hollering
Drew Hollering is a Telecommunications major at Ball State University with an emphasis in Digital Video Production. Drew has experience working as an intern for X103 and MPI, and also assisted with an independent project documenting a well digging in Guyana, South America. Drew’s interest in creative video, primarily, is to explore methods of relating video to sound.
Justin Houser
Justin Houser has been an active composer since 2006, exploring areas of atonality, serialism, and electronic techniques. Mr. Houser has a Bachelor of Science in Music from Eastern New Mexico University, a Masters of Music in Composition from Texas Tech, and is currently completing his PhD in Fine Arts with a field of emphasis in Music and a focus in Composition and Music Technology at Texas Tech.
In 2009, Mr. Houser was introduced to Max MSP and began focusing primarily on electronic music. In 2013, Mr. Houser attended the Max MSP workshop at CMNAT where he was introduced to live interactive systems using the XBOX Kinect. All of these experiences have led to interest in variable electronic works allowing for altered performances between each performance. Mr. Houser’s dissertation, “Reflections” for dancer, live interactive electronics, and instrument, combines all of the experiences he has had in composition and live interactive electronic and will be completed in early 2014.
Mr. Houser’s works have been performed around Texas and New Mexico. He has also served as visiting lecturer and guest composers for Eastern New Mexico University and South Plains College.
NIck Hwang
Nick Hwang (www.NickHwang.com) is an ABD doctoral candidate in Music Composition and Experimental Music & Digital Media. Currently on a dissertation fellowship, Hwang’s research and creative efforts focus on electronic instruments and the orchestral works for which they are written. He has written works for ensembles ranging from symphony orchestra to laptop orchestra, arranged and directed music for theatre, and created public interactive multimedia installations.
Hwang’s music, interactive installations, and presentations have been exhibited internationally. Recent showings include the New Instruments for Musical Expression, International Computer Music Conference, International Symposium on Electronic Art, the Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States, Pixilerations Festival, Prospectives International Digital Art Festival, International Tuba Euphonium Conference, the International Arts Educators Forum, N-SEME, TEDxLSU, International Society for Improvised Music, and the ElectroAcoustic Barn Dance.
Marshall Jones
Todd Kitchen
Todd Kitchen is currently an M.F.A. Candidate in composition at Brandeis University, where he studieswith Eric Chasalow. He received his bachelor's in composition from Brigham Young University, where he studied with Steve Ricks, Neil Thornock, Christian Asplund, and Michael Hicks. A native of North Carolina, he enjoys endurance sports and barbecue.
Benjamin Klein
Benjamin J Mansavage Klein is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his MA from Wesleyan University where he studied with Ron Kuivila, Neely Bruce, Anthony Braxton, and Alvin Lucier. Benjamin received his BMus from Lawrence University; there, he studied with Charles Guy, Martin Erickson, Philip Bodin, Matt Turner, and Joanne Metcalf. In 2006, the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship allowed Benjamin to undertake a year-long project exploring international improvised and experimental music in the cities of Amsterdam, London, Sydney, Wellington, and Tokyo. Benjamin focuses his work on challenging the definition of the tuba, using electronics as a means to stretch the perception of what a tuba can sound like.
Joshua Marquez
Joshua Marquez (b. 1990) is a Filipino-American composer, classical guitarist, and BioMusic researcher currently pursuing a PhD in composition at the University of Iowa. Joshua holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MM in composition '13), and Campbell University (BA in composition '11 and BA in classical guitar '11). He has studied with David Gompper, Lawrence Fritts, Mark Engebretson,Alejandro Rutty, Ran Whitley, William Pruett, Milen Parashkevov, and Dwayne Wilsonin addition to private lessons with Derek Bermel, Samuel Adler, Michael Harrison,Roshanne Etezady, David Biedenbender, Peter Hulen, and Zae Munn
Marquez's music has been performed by ensembles such as the JACK Quartet,Contemporary Chamber Players (at SUNY Stony Brook), Center for New Music (New Music Ensemble at the University of Iowa) Akropolis Reed Quintet, Gate City Camerata,Quintet Sirocco, and the Cape Fear Wind Symphony. His music for film has also been featured at the Canada International Film Festival and the Utopia Film Festival.
Kristopher Martenn
Kristopher Martenn is a composer and performer currently pursuing a Master of Music in Music Technology at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. He holds a Bachelor of Music with concentrations in both Composition and Flute Performance from Georgia Southern University, as well as a Master of Music in Music Composition from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. He has studied flute under Colleen Kocsis, Nina Assimakopoulos, and Anna Thibeault, bagpipes under Winter Taylor, Jerry Finnegan, John Recknagel, and Norman Livermore and composition under Michael Braz, Jason Solomon, Burton Beerman, Mikel Kuehn, and John Thompson.
Currently, Kristopher is working toward refining his skill in the use of music software including Max and SuperCollider. He is also interested in interactivity in video game music and is working toward creating games with dynamic, player-influenced soundtracks.
Zachary McKinley
My name is Zachary McKinley, I grew up in Helena Montana where I watched what few bands we had perform and decided I wanted to play guitar in the fourth grade like my big sister. Before long, I was teaching my college age sister how to play. By the time I went to high school, myself and a few other local youth bands began creating a youth band scene out of nothing, we played at random shops, taking down their merchandise, setting up our gear, playing or set, tearing down setting up the store again for the next day. I began songwriting and am currently working on a rock opera for my band in Helena. Now I am a sophomore at Montana State University where I continue to push my creativity in new ways.
David Mendoza
David Mendoza (b. 1979) writes various styles of contemporary music. His works juxtapose the traditional with the contemporary, the ancient with the avant-‐garde, and the accessible with the abstract. Sound sources often include silences, electronic sounds, non-‐western instruments, and improvisation to produce something that has been described as ethereal and evocative. Since 2007, his works have been performed at festivals and conferences around the country including SEAMUS, NYCEMF, and SCI local, regional and national conferences. Recent achievements include performing his work at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the premiere of his orchestral work Awakening by the Cleveland Orchestra, and winning his fourth ASCAP Plus award. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Florida International University, and is currently a Doctoral student at the University of Miami. David is based in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
J.P. Merz
JP Merz is a composer from Janesville, Wisconsin. He is currently a Senior at Lawrence University, where he is pursuing a degree in composition under Joanne Metcalf and Asha Srinivasan. In addition to composing, he is particularly interested in music technology and free improvisation, and performs on guitar, viola and electronics with an eclectic variety of groups. His work, ten minutes, was selected as the 2013 Colorfield Festival call-for-scores winner and was premiered by the Colorfield Ensemble in Madison, WI. Other works have been read by the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, the NOW Ensemble and the Lux Quartet and performed by the Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble. He is the recipient of the 2013 James Ming Scholarship in Composition.
Seth Messier
Seth Messier recieved his B.A. in Music Technology from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and is a current graduate student attending Georgia Southern University's music technology program. He specializes in using Max/MSP with the use of extended vocal techniques as well as other art forms. Other aspects that he explores are the use of emotions in music, and how they can affect his audience and pique their curiosity into his world. He creates an atmosphere in his music by choosing topics and techniques that evoke selected emotions. This atmosphere, which some may find controversial, is used to help the audience enter a world inside the composer's head; to experience a world of art and sound.
Seth is currently working on his final project for his masters degree which is code named ARMGUARD. ARMGUARD will be used in all his future compositions as it will enhance his performance and control over his extended vocal techniques. He was part of the band Something ABout HOrses where he was in charge of trash cans, djembe, and extended vocal techniques/screaming. His works have been presented at Pixilerations, N SEME and Channel Noise.
John Nichols
John Nichols III’s compositions are audible effusions of 21st century experience. He intends to intrigue listeners with a diverse collection or timbres, shapes, sensations, and surprises that have been melded together into a coherent form. His works have been selected for performance at numerous national and international events such as the Gaudeamus Muziekweek (2013, Utrecht, Netherlands), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, International Computer Music Conference, Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, and others. Some of his awards include the Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus (2013, Netherlands), Second Prize in the Foundation Destellos Sixth International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual Music (2013, Acousmatic Music Category), Second Prize in the International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology 2012 International Electroacoustic Music Young Composers Awards (Hsinchu, Taiwan), and a Special Mention in the 2012 Métamorphoses Acousmatic Composition Competition (Brussels, Belgium). His works have been selected for publication on SEAMUS, ABLAZE Records, Musiques & Recherches, and Monochromevision. A native of Chicago, Mr. Nichols is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Composition at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he won the Fourteenth Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Competition.
Yemin Oh
Yemin Oh is a composer who is always looking for fascinating and captivating music. His main interests lie in several area including visual music, electro-acoustic composition and interactive multi-media work. His pieces incorporate his aesthetic aim into blending visual elements and live electronics into instrumental music. Currently he is pursuing a PhD in Experimental Music & Digital Media at Louisiana State University. Previously, he graduated Kyunghee University and University of Hartford for a B.M. and G.P.D. in music composition, and Georgia Southern University for an M.M. in music technology. His works have been selected and invited to present at several music concerts and conferences, including SEAMUS, NIME, ICMC.
Michael Payen
Chris Poovey
Christopher Poovey believes in giving players particular freedoms in his or her music so that the end product will have an improvisatory energy. He is an undergraduate student at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music pursuing a bachelors degree in Musical Composition. Christopher has studied with Claude Baker, Sven-David Sandström, and PQ Phan as well as John Gibson and Jeffery Hass. He has been recognized by the Music Teachers National Association and Voices of Change New Music Ensemble for his work. He is interested in exploring combinations of conceptual and traditional music.
Justin Porter
Justin M. Porter is a composer based out of Baltimore, Maryland. A first year graduate student in Computer Music Composition at Peabody Conservatory, Justin is interested in the combination of acoustic and electronic media.
Ben Raph
I am from Shelby, MT, currently in my second semester as a music student, and have been loving it more every day. I enjoy most music, especially Hip Hop and EDM, but also classical and some other modern genres of rock music. I do try to play guitar and I sang in the university choir for two years, but for the most part most of my musical interests lie in putting together dj mixes, listening to various kinds of music, and as of this year, sound production. In my downtime, I spin and mix beats, play alot of Xbox, enjoy the beautiful Montana outdoors, and hang with friends for fun.
Carter Rice
Carter John Rice, a native of Minot, North Dakota, is a composer of new music in both the acoustic and electroacoustic realms. Rice earned his Master’s Degree from Bowling Green State University where he studied electroacoustic composition with Elainie Lillios. Prior to attending Bowling Green, Carter completed his undergraduate degree in music composition from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Rice’s music is largely concerned with the notion of creating cohesive and contrasting soundworlds that slowly generate and expel sonic energy over time. Rice is active as a composer in the United States and abroad. His music has been featured at the Soundscape Festival in Italy, Electronic Music Midwest, The National Student Electronic Music Event, and the Bowling Green State University New Music Festival.
Having recently taught at Bowling Green State University and Owens Community College, Rice is now pursuing a Doctor of Arts in Music Theory/Composition at Ball State University.
Andrew Selle
An emerging composer of both acoustic and electronic music, Andrew Selle has been featured at both national and international music events in the United States and Europe including the SEAMUS National Conference in Miami, Florida and the SoundSCAPE New Music Festival in Pavia, Italy. He has also worked with the Xoregos Performing Company in New York City as composer and music director for the off-Broadway show Circle of Haunts. His music is often described as subtle, emotional and full of drama and intensity. Andrew currently resides in Bowling Green, OH, where he is pursing a master’s degree in music composition at Bowling Green State University.
Seth Shafer
Seth Shafer is a native of Southern California with interests in interactive electronic music, physical computing, and deep space. His music was recently performed in the 2013 La MaMa Spoleto Open Festival in collaboration with South Korean director Byungkoo Ahn. His sound installations have been shown at the Long Beach Museum of Art's Pacific Standard Time Exhibit and the Long Beach Soundwalk. Seth has taught courses in music technology, audio production, and film scoring at Cypress College, and he holds a BM and MM from California State University, Long Beach. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition from the University of North Texas.
Barry Sharp
When music, whether electronic or acoustic, is rendered to its most basic elements, it becomes simply an organized series of musical tones: the organizer being the composer, and the tones being the clay to be molded. Differentiating between musical tone and noise lies in the inherent abilities as a listener to perceive alterations between sounds. Noise is a series rapid alternations of many different vibrating sounds, while musical tone rises with frequent reappearances of the same sounds. Ideally, Sonance and Excursus (sound and digression) attempts to exemplify the idea of using sounds that are typically associated with noise, and organizing them into a coherent structure. Using a central core of tones throughout, the ideas sound and digress with the hope of showing how musical tones can be created from what are commonly perceived as common noises.
Phil Smith
Phillip Smith is a second year masters student in music technology at Georgia Southern University. Phil's most recent works employ percussion instruments as well as some sort of electronic media. He tries to blend his love for percussion, more specifically drum set, and electronic music to make something truly original and captivating.
Laura Staffaroni
Laura Staffaroni is a Boston-based composer whose music has been performed in the United States and Europe. Recent works range from a piece for mezzo soprano, percussion, and electronics to background music for a new translation and production of Euripides' Orestes. Ms. Staffaroni is currently a Masters of Music candidate in Composition at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA. She has studied composition with Richard Carrick, Martin Brody, Jenny O. Johnson, Jeremy Van Buskirk, and John H. Morrison. She is also the co-author of a scientific paper on the differences in the ways adolescent musicians and non-musicians experience sound.
Dan Tramte
• A bio in 12 modules:
• Dan Tramte aka. d'Atramt (b. 1985) #clevelandisthecitywherewecomefromsorunrun
• Obligatory acronyms list. wordcount:2. CEMIcircles;festival-futura;ISSTC;1ο-Φεστιβάλ-Ηλεκτρονικής-Μουσικής;#foetexmachina;NYCEMF'x2'
• Athens-Slingshot;ACDFA;OK-Electric;CIME:ICEM;Soundcrawl'x2'SMC;Hilltown'x2';Collevoxus;Latex'x2';EMM;Studio300;ACMC;ICMC'x2';SEAMUS'x2'
• Performances on five continents & zero oceans.
• PhD candidate @ U. of N. Texas specializing in computer music media :: minoring in music theory
• Studied w/ Jon Christopher Nelson, Panayiotis Kokoras, Elainie Lillios, Mikel Kuehn, Andrew May, Christopher Moore, & David Bithell
• proficient in frequencies of 20Hz-20kHz, specializing in the upper & lower extremes; dabbles in frequencies of 400-750THz
• he makes air particles dance; humans just sit & watch…
• …sometimes they participate
• #rationalistyetphenomenologist IL Y A DES NOÈMES, DONC JE SUIS
Kyle Vanderburg
Kyle Vanderburg (b. 1986) composes eclectically polystylistic music fueled by rhythmic drive and melodic infatuation. His acoustic works have found performances by ensembles such as Brave New Works, Access Contemporary Music, and Luna Nova, and his electronic works have appeared at national and international conferences including ICMC, EMUfest, SCI, and NSEME.
A native of Missouri, Kyle holds degrees from Drury University (AB), where he studied composition with Carlyle Sharpe and conducting with Christopher Koch, and the University of Oklahoma (M.Mus.), where he studied with composers Marvin Lamb, Konstantinos Karathanasis, Roland Barrett, and Marc Jensen. He has also participated in composition masterclasses with David Maslanka, Chris Brubeck, Eric V. Hachikian, Joël-François Durand, Benjamin Broening, and Daniel Roumain.
In addition to composing, Kyle is an active computer programmer, writing code for interactive performances, utilities related to composer workflow automation, and unusual controllers. In his spare time, he enjoys designing websites and building mission style furniture. He is currently a DMA candidate in composition at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds a graduate research assistantship in music IT. Kyle’s music is available through his publishing imprint, NoteForge. For more information, visit KyleVanderburg.com.
Samuel Wells
Samuel Wells is a composer, performer, and arranger based in Bloomington, Indiana. As an advocate for new and exciting music, he actively commissions and performs contemporary works for trumpet.
Hailing from Des Moines, Iowa, Sam has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and France. He has performed electroacoustic works for trumpet and presented his own music at the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, as well as the Electronic Music Midwest, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, and SEAMUS festivals. Sam and his music have also been featured by the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) and Fulcrum Point Discoveries.
Sam has collaborated with Max Wellman and the Belin Quartet to create all new arrangements of classic songs from the American songbook. His work (dys)functions is published by qPress.
Sam has degrees in both performance and composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he studied composition with James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi and Zhou Long, and trumpet with Keith Benjamin. He is currently studying with Sven-David Sandström, Jeffrey Hass, and John Rommel while pursuing graduate degrees in Trumpet Performance and Computer Music Composition at Indiana University, where he serves as the Assistant Director of the IU New Music Ensemble.
Russel Wilcox
Russ Wilcox (b. 1979) grew up in Southern California and moved to Indiana to attend Purdue University’s School of Pharmacy. While at Purdue, he played trumpet in Purdue’s bands and began composing after taking an introductory music theory course. After graduating from Purdue, he decided to further his education in music and enrolled in the school of music at Ball State University. He has studied composition with Dr. Frank Felice, Dr. Jody Nagel, Dr. MichaelJames Olson, Dr. Amy Kaplan, Dr. Eleanor Trawick, and Dr. Keith Kothman. In his spare time he works as a staff pharmacist at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis and enjoys spending time with his family. He currently lives in Carmel, Indiana with his wife Julie, his step-daughter Victoria, his coonhound Chloe, and his indifferent cat Chuck.
Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson is a first-year doctoral student, studying music composition at the University of Iowa. He received both his Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees in music composition from Western Illinois University. He has studied music composition with Dr. Larry Fritts, Dr. James Romig, Dr. James Caldwell, Dr. Paul Paccione, and Dr. John Cooper. In addition to composition, Jonathan has studied conducting under Dr. Richard Hughey and Dr. Mike Fansler. His compositional process is concept-oriented, and each concept, in turn, generates the structural ideas that unify his works. His future plans are to complete his doctoral program in music composition and to secure a teaching job in the field at a university. Jonathan is a member of the Society of Composers, Inc., the Iowa Composers Forum, and the American Composers Forum.
Nathan Withham
Nate Witham is a 4th year composition student at the University of Utah, currently studying with Miguel Chuaqui. His music is often characterized as "aggressive" and "noisy", the aesthetic attributed to playing in experimental/punk rock bands as a kid. Witham is currently most interested in electro-acoustic music and composing with textures. Nate Witham also has Beethoven's face tattooed across his right shoulder blade.
Jaesong You
Jaeseong You is a New York City-based composer. Finishing his B.A. in Music and Political Science at New York University and M.A. in Music Composition at City University of New York Graduate Center, he is currently a doctoral student of Music Composition at New York University, Steinhardt, working extensively with Tae Hong Park. You’s academic interests lie in quantification of perceived amplitude and audio-based music analysis.
Having studied with David Olan, Elizabeth Hoffman, Richard Carrick, Douglas Geers, Arthur Kampela, and Tae Hong Park, You actively composes both electronic and acoustic music. His acoustic works have been performed by ensembles like MIVOS Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Cygnus Ensemble, and American Modern Ensemble among many others. As an active member of the computer music scene, You reviewed works for ICMC 2013, and his electronic works and papers have been invited to important conferences like SEAMUS 2013, IEMF 2013, and NIME 2013, IEMF 2013, and NIME 2013.
Sang Mi Ahn is a composer of both acoustic and electro-acoustic mediums. Her electro-acoustic works have recently been performed at the 2013 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), the 2013 Symposium on Acoustic Ecology, and the 2012 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference (NASA).
Ahn enjoys collaborating with performers because she believes that a synergetic approach often results in works that are deeply informed by the performers’ experiences. Ahn is also interested in extending the sound world of her acoustic works by using techniques inspired by the acoustic possibilities of electronic music. In her dissertation-in-progress, Valley of Dry Bones, she explores the use of peripheral noise as a way to express both the physical and spiritual environment describing the resurrection of dry bones in the biblical passage from Ezekiel 37.
Ahn’s recent awards include the 31st Republic of Korea Composition Prize, the 2013 Heckscher Foundation - Ithaca College Composition Prize, the Judith Lang Zaimont Prize at the 2013 Competition of The International Alliance for Women in Music, the prize for the 2011 Women Composers Festival of Hartford International Composition Competition, and second prize at the Sixth International Musical Composition Contest held by the Long Island Arts Council at Freeport.
She is currently studying with Dr. Claude Baker and will complete her doctoral degree in Composition at Indiana University in May 2014.
Aaron Anderson
Aaron Anderson is an undergraduate Music Composition/Music Technology major currently studying at Ball State University. As a composer, Aaron is primarily interested in computer music. This year (2013), his works have been played on 3 conferences: Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), Electronic Music Midwest (EMM), and the Electro Acoustic Barn Dance. Pending graduation in the spring of 2014, Aaron will be continuing with post-graduate study.
Ioannis Andriotis
Ioannis Andriotis (Greece, b. 1983) is a DMA candidate at the University of Oklahoma -‐ USA. As both a person and a contemporary artist, he aims to expand his academic and cultural knowledge in order to better understand the role and importance of art in today’s society. His works examine and emphasize human relationships/interaction, as well as the unique cultural qualities that every individual carries. For the artist, the journey through sound and silence functions as a means of self-‐exploration, and serves as an elegant communication between him and the audience.
Doug Atcheson
Doug Atcheson is currently a student at Georgia Southern University acquiring his bachelor degree in music education. He is currently studying under Dr. Matt Fallin, emphasis in percussion. He is involved in such ensembles as: Georgia Southern University Wind Ensemble, Georgia Southern University Jazz Band, Southern Pride Marching Band, and Georgia Southern University Percussion Ensemble. He has held leadership positions in many of these ensembles as well. Recently, Doug wishes to continue his education further and to attain a master's degree in Music Technology.
Jon Bellona
Jon Bellona is an intermedia artist specializing in digital technologies. (http://jpbellona.com)
Jon's work explores the musicality of data-driven instruments. Because data-mapping techniques have not been culturally codified, new works may alter our pre-conceived notions about performer and performance. Jon's approach is to develop expressive models for instruments through cognitive perception, dynamic coupling of parametric sound elements, and the generation of music that values narrative and form over exposition and the eccentric.
Jon's music and intermedia work have been shown internationally including KISS (Kyma International Sound Symposium); SEAMUS (Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States); IMAC (Interactive Media Arts Conference); SLEO (Symposium on Laptop Ensembles and Orchestras); and FMO (Future Music Oregon) concerts. Jon received his M.Mus. in Intermedia Music Technology from the University of Oregon, audio engineering degree from the Conservatory for Recording Arts & Sciences, and B.A. from Hamilton College. Jon is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Composition and Computer Technologies (CCT) at the University of Virginia and is part of the art collective, Harmonic Laboratory (http://harmoniclab.org).
Thomas Rex Beverly
Thomas Rex Beverly, born 1988, is a graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas where he received a bachelor’s degree in music composition. At Trinity, he studied with Timothy Kramer, David Heuser, Jack W. Stamps, and Brian Nelson. Beverly studied abroad in fall 2008 in Prague, Czech Republic. There he studied composition with the Czech composer Michal Rataj and researched contemporary Czech music. He completed a Master of Arts in Teaching for Music Education at TrinityUniversity and for the past two years he has taught as the Band and Choral Director at KIPP Aspire Academy in San Antonio. He has had pieces performed at the SCI Region VI Conference, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival, the CFAMC National Conference, National Student Electronic Music Event at Temple University, Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College and his piece Ringing Rocks for wind ensemble and electronics was just selected as a winner of The Score Project Competition for new wind ensemble music. He is currently attending graduateschool at Bowling Green State University in their Master of Music Composition degreeprogram where he is a Music Technology Teaching Assistant.
Matt Bryant
Matt Bryant is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. He received his B.A. in Music Technology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). There, he held leadership positions in multiple ensembles and graduated with multiple honors including Most Outstanding Student in the Department of Music. Bryant is currently working on his M.M. in Music Technology at Georgia Southern University.
He enjoys exploring soundscapes and rhythms as well as experimenting with nontraditional techniques on acoustic instruments.
Yari Bundy
I was Born in Illinois, raised in Arizona. I received my undergraduate degree from Arizona State University in Italian Language and culture with a minor in Communications. Studied West African drumming extensively and had the opportunity to travel to Senegal twice with Dr. Mark Sunkett on his Drums of Senegal Project. Each trip the focus was on meeting and learning from local percussionists and documenting different rhythms and songs to be performed later in his African drumming class. I was heavily involved in the music scene in Tempe, Arizona where ASU is located. I played in numerous bands, everything from old-time jug band (where I played the wash tub bass) to experimental electro-acoustic free jazz. Two of these groups, Human Mirror and Yourchestra were actively touring bands that traveled throughout the United States. Though my musical background is quite varied, I have been focusing on electronic music for the last 10-12 years.
I am currently working on my masters degree at Mills College in Oakland, California. I am in the Electronic Music and Recording Media department and am focusing on the transformation and re-contextualization of sound. Recently my work has dealt with extracting sound from everyday objects. I am finding new ways to extract sound using various methods and techniques that allow me to listen to objects that my ears would normally not be able to hear ( i.e. contact microphones and inductor microphones). Future projects will combine these new found sounds with that of my more traditional percussive background.
Chin Ting Chan
Raised in Hong Kong, composer Chin Ting (Patrick) Chan (b. 1986) has gained awards and recognitions from the Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art, Soli fan tutti Composition Prize, American Prize, Association for the Promotion of New Music, Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music, MMTA/MTNA Commissioning Project, newEar Composers’ Competition, New-Music Consortium, Portland Chamber Music Festival Composers Competition and UMKC Chamber Music Composition Competitions. His music has been performed throughout the world at the Artscape Wychwood Barn in Toronto, Darmstadt State Theatre, Echoraum in Vienna, Seoul Arts Center, Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology, Brevard Music Center, in conferences and festivals such as the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, 12 Nights of Electronic Music and Art, BulldogBytes Concert Series, Electronic Music Midwest, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, FEASt Festival, GAMMA- UT, SCI National and Regional Conferences, as well as those by BGSU, CSUF, KcEMA, NEW MUSE, New Music Forum, PARMA Recordings and UAH, among others, by groups such as the Bel Cuore Quartet, Boston New Music Initiative, Color Field Ensemble, ensemble39, Nonsemble 6, Tower Duo and Zeitgeist, and has been recorded and published at the Darling’s Acoustical Delight label and Melos Music, LLC. Some upcoming performances include those with Ensemble Pi, Puget Sound Piano Trio, Strike! Duo and the Tower Duo.
Chan holds degrees in composition from San José State University (B.M.) and Bowling Green State University (M.M.). He is currently a Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellow 2013-14 and instructor of electronic music at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. His mentors have included Chen Yi, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Marilyn Shrude, Burton Beerman, Andrea Reinkemeyer, Brian Belet and Pablo Furman. He is a founding member of Melos Music and Panta Rhei New Music Collective, and he serves on the board of directors of KcEMA. In 2013, he has been a computer music designer at IRCAM, working with Grégoire Lorieux and Carlo Lorenzi on updating the Max patch of Mauro Lanza’s Burger Time (2001).
Jason Charney
Jason Charney writes music for voice and orchestral instruments as well as electroacoustic and interactive media, often combining them. He is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in composition at Bowling Green State University, where he studies with Elainie Lillios. Jason is a recipient of the Allen Strange Award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS), a Hatz Special Recognition Award from the National Federation of Music Clubs, and has twice been a finalist for an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer completed a degree in composition and theory at the University of Kansas, where he studied with Forrest Pierce and Kip Haaheim and received the Cius Award for outstanding student composer.
Ian Clarke
Ian Michael Clarke is a junior studying music composition at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Currently a student of Claude Baker, he has studied traditional composition with Don Freund and Sven-David Sandström, as well as electroacoustic composition with John Gibson and Jeffrey Hass.
Ian has been recognized for his compositional efforts as a 2010 California Arts Scholar in Music Composition and in conjunction with his academic achievements as a 2011 recipient of the prestigious Wells Scholarship. Through his affiliation with the Wells Scholars program, he secured a grant in the summer of 2012 which he used to travel to Australia and conduct research on the 20th century composer John Antill, uncovering and retrieving several rare and otherwise undiscovered scores.
Ian's music has been performed at CalArts, Indiana University and the surrounding Bloomington area, Temple University for the N_SEME New Music Symposium 2013, at the Atlantic Music Festival, at the Electroacoustic Barn Dance Festival, at the 2013 Midwest Composers' Symposium, and at Princeton University, where he had the fortune of writing for the incredible So Percussion quartet. Over the course of June 2013, Ian lived in Paris and studied electroacoustic composition at IRCAM, participating additionally in IRCAM's Manifeste Music Festival.
As a composer, Ian loves the idea of creating "synesthetic music." He approaches this idea both externally by working on multimedia projects, including film score, multi-channel electronic sound art, ballet, and performance art, and internally by synthesizing other art forms into abstract and/or algorithmic ideas to be realized musically. Separate of his more avant-garde pursuits, Ian also has an intense interest in creating a new music language and aesthetic that is both intriguing to those who involve themselves in the new music world and accessible and enjoyable for those who are unfamiliar with it.
William Conlin
William Walker Conlin is a composer, saxophonist and media technologist. Since 2011 he has held an annual Experimental Music Concert Series in Baton Rouge. At LSU in the Experimental Music and Digital Media PHD program, Mr. Conlin works to create compositions for: laptop orchestra, fixed media, video, interactive installations, art collaborations and more. In 2013 he presented at the inaugural TEDxLSU with his friend and colleague Nick Hwang. Their presentation is a manifesto of electroacoustic musicianship.
Mr. Conlin was born in 1987 in Durham, North Carolina, where he grew up. He attended attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for high school and college, studying saxophone performance. In 2013 he completed his Masters in Saxophone Performance at Louisiana State University.
Nathan Corder
Nathan Corder is a composer and guitarist currently living in Tampa, Fl. Nathan is currently pursuing degrees in composition and philosophy at the University of South Florida. Nathan's works, ranging from chamber ensembles to interactive computer music, have been performed nationwide.
Keenan DuBois
Keenan DuBois is a composer and electronic musician from the San Francisco Bay Area, California. Although he was introduced to formal music study through classical piano at the age of seven, he abandoned the performance route to pursue a more flexible artistic direction, and found an outlet in the creative freedom of electronic music in his high school years. DuBois’ music is strongly influenced by his surroundings; his compositions draw strongly on themes of natural beauty and memory, tempered by a strong interest in computer science and the technical side of music production. Currently, he is a sophomore at Oberlin College & Conservatory in Ohio with plans to major in Computer Science and Technology In Music and Related Arts. His recent projects have included a collaborative dance piece, development of live electronic instrument patches, and various fixed media performances.
Trey Duplantis
Born in New Orleans and raised in a number of southern locales, Trey Duplantis is Louisiana State University's first undergraduate student in Experimental Music and Digital Media. He is interested in creating new musical interactive experiences that bridge the gap between musical performance and the act of playing video games; he also creates fixed media works that draw inspiration from Pierre Schaeffer, Denis Smalley, and J Dilla.
Melody Eotvos
Melody Eötvös is an Australian composer currently residing in Bloomington Indiana, USA, and is undertaking the final year of her DMA at the Jacobs School of Music where she also serves as an Associate Instructor in Composition and Music Coordinator for the Composition Department. She has studied with a variety of composers across the globe, including Dr. Gerardo Dirié (Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Australia, BMus(hon)), Simon Bainbridge (Royal Academy of Music, London, 2006-07, MMus), Dr. David Dzubay (Jacobs School of Music, IU, DMA) and has been the recipient of various awards including the 3MBS National Composers Award (2009) an APRA PDA (2009), & the Soundstream National Composer Award (2012). She has had her music performed by ensembles/orchestras such as the London Sinfonietta, BBC Singers, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, and the Australian String Quartet. Previous education includes BMus(hon) at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Australia (2006); MMus & LRAM at the Royal Academy of Music, London (2008); MA(phil) at the University of Queensland (2009).
Eddie Farr
Eddie Farr holds a BA in music (saxophone) and is a graduate student in Music Technology at Georgia Southern University. His interests include saxophone, science fiction, and electronics. He has performed, with Alex Sellers, at the 2012 Navy International Saxophone Symposium and with the Georgia Southern Saxophone Quartet at the 2011 NASA Region 6 Conference.
Jon Fielder
Jon Fielder is a composer of electroacoustic and acoustic music, all of which shows a strong interest in timbre, texture, spatialization and narrative. His music is often inspired by his love of natural landscapes, such as the echoing of the Ohio River valley and the windy flatland of Northwest Ohio. He also draws inspiration from his interest in various topics of science and mathematics (chemical reactions, psychopharmacology, Markov chains), from manipulations of the human voice - both spoken and sung - and from literature.
Jon's music has been featured at the SEAMUS conference (2013), the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium, Electronic Music Midwest, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, the CEMIcircles Festival, the 2012 IDRS Conference, the Northern Ohio Music Exchange (NOMA) concert at the Oberlin Conservatory, the Olmsted Festival of the Arts, and inclusion in the Alex Sramek call for scores for the Voxnovus 15-Minutes of Fame series (Sublimation). Jon was also the first recipient of the Mark Phillips Distinguished Professor award for composition in 2009 (Ohio University).
Jon is active as a researcher and music theorist, his primary topics of interest being music of the New Complexity school (particularly Franklin Cox and Brian Ferneyhough) and post-1945 Darmstadt composers, namely Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Jon received a M.M. degree in composition from Bowling Green State University, and B.M. degrees in both composition and theory from Ohio University. He is currently pursuing a D.M.A. in composition at the University of Texas-Austin under the study of Russell Pinkston and Donald Grantham. Previous composition instructors include Elainie Lillios, Mikel Kuehn, Franklin Cox, Mark Phillips and Christopher Dietz.
Cory Gehrich
My name is Cory Gehrich. I'm a 25 year old MFA student in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College in Oakland, California. I obtained my BA from the University of California San Diego in Interdisciplinary Computing in the Arts through the Music Department, where I studied with Tom Erbe and Miller Puckette. My focus at UCSD was mainly in computer music programming and audio engineering. My undergraduate thesis project, “In the Midst of Misery,” a thirty minute piece in 5.1 surround sound, won the most creative work award in the music department.
I began playing guitar at the age of twelve and immediately formed a band, whom I continued to play with for the next eight years. I was introduced at a very young age to the world of teenage-rock-and-roll; playing at dive bars on school nights (we had to wait outside but fortunately the bartender would supply us with pitchers of coke) and doing ten hour recording sessions. It was during our sessions in the recording studio that I realized that being in a dimly lit room all day making music is really not a bad deal; I've never been much of a beach guy anyway.
Six years ago, my interest in the group waned, and I began making home recordings of music I was working on and taking audio recording and electronic music classes at various community colleges. I have since written and recorded many songs/pieces in many different genres, and just self-released my first EP under my indie/alternative rock monicker. However, I have been completely inspired since having been introduced to electroacoustic (“tape”) music.
My work generally begins with real instruments or found sounds; I haven't been using many hardware or software synthesizers in my work (I only own one synthesizer – a cheesy 1980's Casio), but when I do, I program them myself in Pure Data (Pd), or more recently, SuperCollider. I've recently been working on pieces involving prepared electric guitar as well as new techniques for playing the guitar, which is then running through a Pd workstation I'm developing, inspired by Pauline Oliveros' Expanded Instrument System.
Morgan Greenwood
Morgan Greenwood (b. 1993) is a composer, percussionist, improviser, and drummer currently studying music composition at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance in Kansas City, Missouri. His compositions seek to infuse the musical language and form of contemporary concert music with the tenacity, intent, and collaborative spirit of the jazz, rock, and metal he grew up listening to and playing. His works have been performed publically by newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble and the H2 Saxophone Quartet. His duo for flute and clarinet, Orphisms, was selected for a public reading by members of Eighth Blackbird in late 2012. Morgan studies composition with Chen Yi, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, and additionally with Nicholas Omiccioli. He studies percussion with Nick Petrella and performs regularly with the IMP Music Ensemble and the UMKC Percussion Ensemble. When not composing, Morgan enjoys cooking, cross-country running, and playing drums in his band Riala, also based out of Kansas City.
Mitchell Hermann
Mitchell Herrmann is an undergraduate student attending Oberlin College and Conservatory, majoring in TIMARA and Cinema Studies. His work has explored the intersections between experimental film and electroacoustic music, with a focus on combining influences from digital animation and acousmatic sound. He currently studies composition with Peter Swendsen, and film with Geoff Pingree.
Drew Hollering
Drew Hollering is a Telecommunications major at Ball State University with an emphasis in Digital Video Production. Drew has experience working as an intern for X103 and MPI, and also assisted with an independent project documenting a well digging in Guyana, South America. Drew’s interest in creative video, primarily, is to explore methods of relating video to sound.
Justin Houser
Justin Houser has been an active composer since 2006, exploring areas of atonality, serialism, and electronic techniques. Mr. Houser has a Bachelor of Science in Music from Eastern New Mexico University, a Masters of Music in Composition from Texas Tech, and is currently completing his PhD in Fine Arts with a field of emphasis in Music and a focus in Composition and Music Technology at Texas Tech.
In 2009, Mr. Houser was introduced to Max MSP and began focusing primarily on electronic music. In 2013, Mr. Houser attended the Max MSP workshop at CMNAT where he was introduced to live interactive systems using the XBOX Kinect. All of these experiences have led to interest in variable electronic works allowing for altered performances between each performance. Mr. Houser’s dissertation, “Reflections” for dancer, live interactive electronics, and instrument, combines all of the experiences he has had in composition and live interactive electronic and will be completed in early 2014.
Mr. Houser’s works have been performed around Texas and New Mexico. He has also served as visiting lecturer and guest composers for Eastern New Mexico University and South Plains College.
NIck Hwang
Nick Hwang (www.NickHwang.com) is an ABD doctoral candidate in Music Composition and Experimental Music & Digital Media. Currently on a dissertation fellowship, Hwang’s research and creative efforts focus on electronic instruments and the orchestral works for which they are written. He has written works for ensembles ranging from symphony orchestra to laptop orchestra, arranged and directed music for theatre, and created public interactive multimedia installations.
Hwang’s music, interactive installations, and presentations have been exhibited internationally. Recent showings include the New Instruments for Musical Expression, International Computer Music Conference, International Symposium on Electronic Art, the Society for Electro Acoustic Music in the United States, Pixilerations Festival, Prospectives International Digital Art Festival, International Tuba Euphonium Conference, the International Arts Educators Forum, N-SEME, TEDxLSU, International Society for Improvised Music, and the ElectroAcoustic Barn Dance.
Marshall Jones
Todd Kitchen
Todd Kitchen is currently an M.F.A. Candidate in composition at Brandeis University, where he studieswith Eric Chasalow. He received his bachelor's in composition from Brigham Young University, where he studied with Steve Ricks, Neil Thornock, Christian Asplund, and Michael Hicks. A native of North Carolina, he enjoys endurance sports and barbecue.
Benjamin Klein
Benjamin J Mansavage Klein is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He received his MA from Wesleyan University where he studied with Ron Kuivila, Neely Bruce, Anthony Braxton, and Alvin Lucier. Benjamin received his BMus from Lawrence University; there, he studied with Charles Guy, Martin Erickson, Philip Bodin, Matt Turner, and Joanne Metcalf. In 2006, the Thomas J. Watson Fellowship allowed Benjamin to undertake a year-long project exploring international improvised and experimental music in the cities of Amsterdam, London, Sydney, Wellington, and Tokyo. Benjamin focuses his work on challenging the definition of the tuba, using electronics as a means to stretch the perception of what a tuba can sound like.
Joshua Marquez
Joshua Marquez (b. 1990) is a Filipino-American composer, classical guitarist, and BioMusic researcher currently pursuing a PhD in composition at the University of Iowa. Joshua holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MM in composition '13), and Campbell University (BA in composition '11 and BA in classical guitar '11). He has studied with David Gompper, Lawrence Fritts, Mark Engebretson,Alejandro Rutty, Ran Whitley, William Pruett, Milen Parashkevov, and Dwayne Wilsonin addition to private lessons with Derek Bermel, Samuel Adler, Michael Harrison,Roshanne Etezady, David Biedenbender, Peter Hulen, and Zae Munn
Marquez's music has been performed by ensembles such as the JACK Quartet,Contemporary Chamber Players (at SUNY Stony Brook), Center for New Music (New Music Ensemble at the University of Iowa) Akropolis Reed Quintet, Gate City Camerata,Quintet Sirocco, and the Cape Fear Wind Symphony. His music for film has also been featured at the Canada International Film Festival and the Utopia Film Festival.
Kristopher Martenn
Kristopher Martenn is a composer and performer currently pursuing a Master of Music in Music Technology at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, GA. He holds a Bachelor of Music with concentrations in both Composition and Flute Performance from Georgia Southern University, as well as a Master of Music in Music Composition from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, OH. He has studied flute under Colleen Kocsis, Nina Assimakopoulos, and Anna Thibeault, bagpipes under Winter Taylor, Jerry Finnegan, John Recknagel, and Norman Livermore and composition under Michael Braz, Jason Solomon, Burton Beerman, Mikel Kuehn, and John Thompson.
Currently, Kristopher is working toward refining his skill in the use of music software including Max and SuperCollider. He is also interested in interactivity in video game music and is working toward creating games with dynamic, player-influenced soundtracks.
Zachary McKinley
My name is Zachary McKinley, I grew up in Helena Montana where I watched what few bands we had perform and decided I wanted to play guitar in the fourth grade like my big sister. Before long, I was teaching my college age sister how to play. By the time I went to high school, myself and a few other local youth bands began creating a youth band scene out of nothing, we played at random shops, taking down their merchandise, setting up our gear, playing or set, tearing down setting up the store again for the next day. I began songwriting and am currently working on a rock opera for my band in Helena. Now I am a sophomore at Montana State University where I continue to push my creativity in new ways.
David Mendoza
David Mendoza (b. 1979) writes various styles of contemporary music. His works juxtapose the traditional with the contemporary, the ancient with the avant-‐garde, and the accessible with the abstract. Sound sources often include silences, electronic sounds, non-‐western instruments, and improvisation to produce something that has been described as ethereal and evocative. Since 2007, his works have been performed at festivals and conferences around the country including SEAMUS, NYCEMF, and SCI local, regional and national conferences. Recent achievements include performing his work at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the premiere of his orchestral work Awakening by the Cleveland Orchestra, and winning his fourth ASCAP Plus award. He has taught as an adjunct professor at Florida International University, and is currently a Doctoral student at the University of Miami. David is based in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
J.P. Merz
JP Merz is a composer from Janesville, Wisconsin. He is currently a Senior at Lawrence University, where he is pursuing a degree in composition under Joanne Metcalf and Asha Srinivasan. In addition to composing, he is particularly interested in music technology and free improvisation, and performs on guitar, viola and electronics with an eclectic variety of groups. His work, ten minutes, was selected as the 2013 Colorfield Festival call-for-scores winner and was premiered by the Colorfield Ensemble in Madison, WI. Other works have been read by the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra, the NOW Ensemble and the Lux Quartet and performed by the Lawrence University Percussion Ensemble. He is the recipient of the 2013 James Ming Scholarship in Composition.
Seth Messier
Seth Messier recieved his B.A. in Music Technology from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and is a current graduate student attending Georgia Southern University's music technology program. He specializes in using Max/MSP with the use of extended vocal techniques as well as other art forms. Other aspects that he explores are the use of emotions in music, and how they can affect his audience and pique their curiosity into his world. He creates an atmosphere in his music by choosing topics and techniques that evoke selected emotions. This atmosphere, which some may find controversial, is used to help the audience enter a world inside the composer's head; to experience a world of art and sound.
Seth is currently working on his final project for his masters degree which is code named ARMGUARD. ARMGUARD will be used in all his future compositions as it will enhance his performance and control over his extended vocal techniques. He was part of the band Something ABout HOrses where he was in charge of trash cans, djembe, and extended vocal techniques/screaming. His works have been presented at Pixilerations, N SEME and Channel Noise.
John Nichols
John Nichols III’s compositions are audible effusions of 21st century experience. He intends to intrigue listeners with a diverse collection or timbres, shapes, sensations, and surprises that have been melded together into a coherent form. His works have been selected for performance at numerous national and international events such as the Gaudeamus Muziekweek (2013, Utrecht, Netherlands), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, International Computer Music Conference, Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States, and others. Some of his awards include the Conlon Music Prize for Disklavier Plus (2013, Netherlands), Second Prize in the Foundation Destellos Sixth International Competition of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual Music (2013, Acousmatic Music Category), Second Prize in the International Workshop on Computer Music and Audio Technology 2012 International Electroacoustic Music Young Composers Awards (Hsinchu, Taiwan), and a Special Mention in the 2012 Métamorphoses Acousmatic Composition Competition (Brussels, Belgium). His works have been selected for publication on SEAMUS, ABLAZE Records, Musiques & Recherches, and Monochromevision. A native of Chicago, Mr. Nichols is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Composition at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he won the Fourteenth Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Competition.
Yemin Oh
Yemin Oh is a composer who is always looking for fascinating and captivating music. His main interests lie in several area including visual music, electro-acoustic composition and interactive multi-media work. His pieces incorporate his aesthetic aim into blending visual elements and live electronics into instrumental music. Currently he is pursuing a PhD in Experimental Music & Digital Media at Louisiana State University. Previously, he graduated Kyunghee University and University of Hartford for a B.M. and G.P.D. in music composition, and Georgia Southern University for an M.M. in music technology. His works have been selected and invited to present at several music concerts and conferences, including SEAMUS, NIME, ICMC.
Michael Payen
Chris Poovey
Christopher Poovey believes in giving players particular freedoms in his or her music so that the end product will have an improvisatory energy. He is an undergraduate student at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music pursuing a bachelors degree in Musical Composition. Christopher has studied with Claude Baker, Sven-David Sandström, and PQ Phan as well as John Gibson and Jeffery Hass. He has been recognized by the Music Teachers National Association and Voices of Change New Music Ensemble for his work. He is interested in exploring combinations of conceptual and traditional music.
Justin Porter
Justin M. Porter is a composer based out of Baltimore, Maryland. A first year graduate student in Computer Music Composition at Peabody Conservatory, Justin is interested in the combination of acoustic and electronic media.
Ben Raph
I am from Shelby, MT, currently in my second semester as a music student, and have been loving it more every day. I enjoy most music, especially Hip Hop and EDM, but also classical and some other modern genres of rock music. I do try to play guitar and I sang in the university choir for two years, but for the most part most of my musical interests lie in putting together dj mixes, listening to various kinds of music, and as of this year, sound production. In my downtime, I spin and mix beats, play alot of Xbox, enjoy the beautiful Montana outdoors, and hang with friends for fun.
Carter Rice
Carter John Rice, a native of Minot, North Dakota, is a composer of new music in both the acoustic and electroacoustic realms. Rice earned his Master’s Degree from Bowling Green State University where he studied electroacoustic composition with Elainie Lillios. Prior to attending Bowling Green, Carter completed his undergraduate degree in music composition from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. Rice’s music is largely concerned with the notion of creating cohesive and contrasting soundworlds that slowly generate and expel sonic energy over time. Rice is active as a composer in the United States and abroad. His music has been featured at the Soundscape Festival in Italy, Electronic Music Midwest, The National Student Electronic Music Event, and the Bowling Green State University New Music Festival.
Having recently taught at Bowling Green State University and Owens Community College, Rice is now pursuing a Doctor of Arts in Music Theory/Composition at Ball State University.
Andrew Selle
An emerging composer of both acoustic and electronic music, Andrew Selle has been featured at both national and international music events in the United States and Europe including the SEAMUS National Conference in Miami, Florida and the SoundSCAPE New Music Festival in Pavia, Italy. He has also worked with the Xoregos Performing Company in New York City as composer and music director for the off-Broadway show Circle of Haunts. His music is often described as subtle, emotional and full of drama and intensity. Andrew currently resides in Bowling Green, OH, where he is pursing a master’s degree in music composition at Bowling Green State University.
Seth Shafer
Seth Shafer is a native of Southern California with interests in interactive electronic music, physical computing, and deep space. His music was recently performed in the 2013 La MaMa Spoleto Open Festival in collaboration with South Korean director Byungkoo Ahn. His sound installations have been shown at the Long Beach Museum of Art's Pacific Standard Time Exhibit and the Long Beach Soundwalk. Seth has taught courses in music technology, audio production, and film scoring at Cypress College, and he holds a BM and MM from California State University, Long Beach. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in composition from the University of North Texas.
Barry Sharp
When music, whether electronic or acoustic, is rendered to its most basic elements, it becomes simply an organized series of musical tones: the organizer being the composer, and the tones being the clay to be molded. Differentiating between musical tone and noise lies in the inherent abilities as a listener to perceive alterations between sounds. Noise is a series rapid alternations of many different vibrating sounds, while musical tone rises with frequent reappearances of the same sounds. Ideally, Sonance and Excursus (sound and digression) attempts to exemplify the idea of using sounds that are typically associated with noise, and organizing them into a coherent structure. Using a central core of tones throughout, the ideas sound and digress with the hope of showing how musical tones can be created from what are commonly perceived as common noises.
Phil Smith
Phillip Smith is a second year masters student in music technology at Georgia Southern University. Phil's most recent works employ percussion instruments as well as some sort of electronic media. He tries to blend his love for percussion, more specifically drum set, and electronic music to make something truly original and captivating.
Laura Staffaroni
Laura Staffaroni is a Boston-based composer whose music has been performed in the United States and Europe. Recent works range from a piece for mezzo soprano, percussion, and electronics to background music for a new translation and production of Euripides' Orestes. Ms. Staffaroni is currently a Masters of Music candidate in Composition at the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA. She has studied composition with Richard Carrick, Martin Brody, Jenny O. Johnson, Jeremy Van Buskirk, and John H. Morrison. She is also the co-author of a scientific paper on the differences in the ways adolescent musicians and non-musicians experience sound.
Dan Tramte
• A bio in 12 modules:
• Dan Tramte aka. d'Atramt (b. 1985) #clevelandisthecitywherewecomefromsorunrun
• Obligatory acronyms list. wordcount:2. CEMIcircles;festival-futura;ISSTC;1ο-Φεστιβάλ-Ηλεκτρονικής-Μουσικής;#foetexmachina;NYCEMF'x2'
• Athens-Slingshot;ACDFA;OK-Electric;CIME:ICEM;Soundcrawl'x2'SMC;Hilltown'x2';Collevoxus;Latex'x2';EMM;Studio300;ACMC;ICMC'x2';SEAMUS'x2'
• Performances on five continents & zero oceans.
• PhD candidate @ U. of N. Texas specializing in computer music media :: minoring in music theory
• Studied w/ Jon Christopher Nelson, Panayiotis Kokoras, Elainie Lillios, Mikel Kuehn, Andrew May, Christopher Moore, & David Bithell
• proficient in frequencies of 20Hz-20kHz, specializing in the upper & lower extremes; dabbles in frequencies of 400-750THz
• he makes air particles dance; humans just sit & watch…
• …sometimes they participate
• #rationalistyetphenomenologist IL Y A DES NOÈMES, DONC JE SUIS
Kyle Vanderburg
Kyle Vanderburg (b. 1986) composes eclectically polystylistic music fueled by rhythmic drive and melodic infatuation. His acoustic works have found performances by ensembles such as Brave New Works, Access Contemporary Music, and Luna Nova, and his electronic works have appeared at national and international conferences including ICMC, EMUfest, SCI, and NSEME.
A native of Missouri, Kyle holds degrees from Drury University (AB), where he studied composition with Carlyle Sharpe and conducting with Christopher Koch, and the University of Oklahoma (M.Mus.), where he studied with composers Marvin Lamb, Konstantinos Karathanasis, Roland Barrett, and Marc Jensen. He has also participated in composition masterclasses with David Maslanka, Chris Brubeck, Eric V. Hachikian, Joël-François Durand, Benjamin Broening, and Daniel Roumain.
In addition to composing, Kyle is an active computer programmer, writing code for interactive performances, utilities related to composer workflow automation, and unusual controllers. In his spare time, he enjoys designing websites and building mission style furniture. He is currently a DMA candidate in composition at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds a graduate research assistantship in music IT. Kyle’s music is available through his publishing imprint, NoteForge. For more information, visit KyleVanderburg.com.
Samuel Wells
Samuel Wells is a composer, performer, and arranger based in Bloomington, Indiana. As an advocate for new and exciting music, he actively commissions and performs contemporary works for trumpet.
Hailing from Des Moines, Iowa, Sam has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Canada and France. He has performed electroacoustic works for trumpet and presented his own music at the Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, as well as the Electronic Music Midwest, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, and SEAMUS festivals. Sam and his music have also been featured by the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) and Fulcrum Point Discoveries.
Sam has collaborated with Max Wellman and the Belin Quartet to create all new arrangements of classic songs from the American songbook. His work (dys)functions is published by qPress.
Sam has degrees in both performance and composition at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where he studied composition with James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, Chen Yi and Zhou Long, and trumpet with Keith Benjamin. He is currently studying with Sven-David Sandström, Jeffrey Hass, and John Rommel while pursuing graduate degrees in Trumpet Performance and Computer Music Composition at Indiana University, where he serves as the Assistant Director of the IU New Music Ensemble.
Russel Wilcox
Russ Wilcox (b. 1979) grew up in Southern California and moved to Indiana to attend Purdue University’s School of Pharmacy. While at Purdue, he played trumpet in Purdue’s bands and began composing after taking an introductory music theory course. After graduating from Purdue, he decided to further his education in music and enrolled in the school of music at Ball State University. He has studied composition with Dr. Frank Felice, Dr. Jody Nagel, Dr. MichaelJames Olson, Dr. Amy Kaplan, Dr. Eleanor Trawick, and Dr. Keith Kothman. In his spare time he works as a staff pharmacist at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis and enjoys spending time with his family. He currently lives in Carmel, Indiana with his wife Julie, his step-daughter Victoria, his coonhound Chloe, and his indifferent cat Chuck.
Jonathan Wilson
Jonathan Wilson is a first-year doctoral student, studying music composition at the University of Iowa. He received both his Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees in music composition from Western Illinois University. He has studied music composition with Dr. Larry Fritts, Dr. James Romig, Dr. James Caldwell, Dr. Paul Paccione, and Dr. John Cooper. In addition to composition, Jonathan has studied conducting under Dr. Richard Hughey and Dr. Mike Fansler. His compositional process is concept-oriented, and each concept, in turn, generates the structural ideas that unify his works. His future plans are to complete his doctoral program in music composition and to secure a teaching job in the field at a university. Jonathan is a member of the Society of Composers, Inc., the Iowa Composers Forum, and the American Composers Forum.
Nathan Withham
Nate Witham is a 4th year composition student at the University of Utah, currently studying with Miguel Chuaqui. His music is often characterized as "aggressive" and "noisy", the aesthetic attributed to playing in experimental/punk rock bands as a kid. Witham is currently most interested in electro-acoustic music and composing with textures. Nate Witham also has Beethoven's face tattooed across his right shoulder blade.
Jaesong You
Jaeseong You is a New York City-based composer. Finishing his B.A. in Music and Political Science at New York University and M.A. in Music Composition at City University of New York Graduate Center, he is currently a doctoral student of Music Composition at New York University, Steinhardt, working extensively with Tae Hong Park. You’s academic interests lie in quantification of perceived amplitude and audio-based music analysis.
Having studied with David Olan, Elizabeth Hoffman, Richard Carrick, Douglas Geers, Arthur Kampela, and Tae Hong Park, You actively composes both electronic and acoustic music. His acoustic works have been performed by ensembles like MIVOS Quartet, Talea Ensemble, Cygnus Ensemble, and American Modern Ensemble among many others. As an active member of the computer music scene, You reviewed works for ICMC 2013, and his electronic works and papers have been invited to important conferences like SEAMUS 2013, IEMF 2013, and NIME 2013, IEMF 2013, and NIME 2013.
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Sang Mi Ahn
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Aaron Anderson
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Ioannis Andriotis
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Jon Bellona
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Thomas Rex Beverly
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Yari Bundi
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Matt Bryant
Chin Ting Chan
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Jason Charney
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Ian Clarke
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William Conlin
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Nathan Corder
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Keenan DuBois
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Trey Duplantis
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Melody Eotvos
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Eddie Farr
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Jon Fielder
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Cory Gehrich
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Morgan Greenwood
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Mitchell Hermann
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Justin Houser
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Marshall Jones
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Todd Kitchen
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Benjamin Klein
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Joshua Marquez
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Kristopher Martenn
Zachary McKinley
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David Mendoza
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J.P. Merz
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Seth Messier
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John Nichols
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Yemin Oh
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Michael Payen
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Chris Poovey
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Justin Porter
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Ben Raph
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Carter Rice
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Andrew Selle
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Seth Shafer
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Barry Sharp
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Phil Smith
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Laura Staffaroni
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Dan Tramte
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Kyle Vanderburg
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Samuel Wells
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Russel Wilcox
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Jonathan Wilson
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Nathan Withham
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Jaesong You
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Aaron Anderson
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Ioannis Andriotis
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Doug Atcheson
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Jon Bellona
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Thomas Rex Beverly
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Yari Bundi
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Matt Bryant
Chin Ting Chan
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Jason Charney
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Ian Clarke
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William Conlin
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Nathan Corder
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Keenan DuBois
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Trey Duplantis
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Melody Eotvos
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Eddie Farr
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Jon Fielder
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Cory Gehrich
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Morgan Greenwood
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Mitchell Hermann
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Justin Houser
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NIck Hwang
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Marshall Jones
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Todd Kitchen
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Benjamin Klein
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Joshua Marquez
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Kristopher Martenn
Zachary McKinley
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David Mendoza
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J.P. Merz
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Seth Messier
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John Nichols
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Yemin Oh
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Michael Payen
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Chris Poovey
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Justin Porter
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Ben Raph
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Carter Rice
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Andrew Selle
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Seth Shafer
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Barry Sharp
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Phil Smith
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Laura Staffaroni
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Dan Tramte
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Kyle Vanderburg
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Samuel Wells
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Russel Wilcox
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Jonathan Wilson
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