Browse Items (868 total)
Sort by:
-
Kerrith Livengood
Composer Kerrith Livengood’s music has been described as "an escapade of wild effusions" (Bloomington Herald-Times) and "sketchy-seeming" (New York Times). Her music has been performed at KISS 2018, ACO’s SONiC Festival, June in Buffalo, Bargemusic, CCM’s MusicX festivals, the North American Saxophone Alliance annual conference, the Atlantic Music Festival, the Contemporary Undercurrent of Song series, the Cortona Sessions, the Charlotte New Music Festival, and Alia Musica Pittsburgh’s Conductors Festival. She has composed works for the JACK Quartet, Third Angle Ensemble, Duo Cortona, Altered Sound Duo, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Beattie and pianist Adam Marks, soprano Amy Petrongelli, Harry Partch's Adapted Guitar I performed by Charles Corey, and the h2 Quartet. Kerrith’s music features unexpected musical forms, complex grooves, lyricism, improvisation, noise, and humor. Kerrith is a flutist and experimental improviser who has played bird songs while sitting in a tree, worn a towel as concert attire, and performed in concert with Anthony Braxton and Renee Baker. She is a native of Springfield, Missouri; graduated from the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied with Eric Moe, Mathew Rosenblum, Amy Williams and Marcos Balter; and currently teaches at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign). Kerrith is also Assistant Director of the New Music On The Point Festival, an annual summer festival for young composers and performers. Since the pandemic began, Kerrith has spent much of her time learning to create music in SuperCollider and collaborating with her friends and colleagues remotely. She looks forward to fire pit hangouts and the return of karaoke someday soon. -
Raphael Radna
Raphael Radna is a composer of acoustic and electronic music whose works embrace unconventional compositional strategies and new technologies. His music has been performed in concerts, festivals, and conferences across the United States and in Japan, including at the International Computer Music Conference, the New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, the California Electronic Music Exchange Concerts, the UCSB Summer Music Festival, and the Osaka University of Arts Electroacoustic Music Festival. Raphael is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Composition at UC Santa Barbara, where he studies with João Pedro Oliveira and Curtis Roads. -
Shanna Pranaitis
Shanna Pranaitis fearlessly expands the realm of sonic possibility for her instruments through innovative performances and educational projects, in which she integrates new and historically reimagined works with electronics, movement, and other multi disciplinary elements to create seamless, immersive concert experiences. She is interested in exploring ways to engage and involve a wider community in the process of experiencing music.
She travels the world regularly to perform and teach as a solo guest artist and with the chamber ensembles Memoria Nova and Collect/Project. She has performed and taught as a guest artist in Germany, Portugal, Switzerland, The Netherlands, South Korea, Mexico, Colombia, and the United Kingdom. An important part of this work is the close cooperation with living composers, poets, movement artists, and other interdisciplinary artists, around the world on the development of new work. She is the artistic director and co-founder of FluteXpansions, the first comprehensive e-learning platform for composers and performers to explore contemporary flute music and techniques.
Shanna has presented premiere performances of pieces written for her at such festivals as the Gaudeamus Muziekweek (NL), Sonic Fusion Festival (UK), Darmstadt Ferienkurse (DE), International Computer Music Conference, and Omaha Under the Radar, among others. She has received numerous accolades for her performances including, prizes at the Stockhausen Courses, the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, and New Music USA project grants. In 2017, she co-curated and co-organized the first multi-day festival of Galina Ustvolskaya’s music (Power In Sound) in the United States. She was previously a founding member of Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente, with whom she received the 2012 Kranichstein Prize for Interpretation. Her debut solo recording Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf Flute Music was just released on NEOS. Previous releases include the album Mobile with guitarist Jesse Langen, featuring world premiere recordings of music by Fredrick Gifford, and the album SORI featuring works by Kyong Mee Choi for instruments and electronics.
Current recording projects also include a solo disc of works for her Kingma open-hole bass flute. Shanna has studied contemporary music under Matthias Ziegler, Camilla Hoitenga, Eva Furrer, Philippe Racine, and Kathinka Pasveer. Such has served as indispensable enrichment to her performance studies at the University of Michigan (Amy Porter) and Northwestern University (Walfrid Kujala), where she received her masters and bachelors degrees, respectively. Her formative training was guided by Monty Adams and Dolores Humberg, to whom she is deeply grateful. She was also a former fellow of the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble at the Aspen Music Festival. A passionate educator, Shanna is on faculty of the Music Institute of Chicago, and maintains an active private studio in the Chicago area. She is also certified to teach the Suzuki method having
received her training from David Gerry and Kelly Williamson.
Shanna performs on a Burkart flute and piccolo and Kingma bass and alto flutes. -
-
Edu Meneses
Edu Meneses is a music technologist, digital luthier, composer, and performer in the best interdisciplinary fashion.
A Ph.D. in music technology at McGill University (IDMIL and CIRMMT), Edu is currently a researcher-developer at the Société des Arts Technologiques (SAT). He works with embedded systems for digital musical instruments (Linux/Rpi and ESP32) and sound spatialization, leading research-creation projects with product development and art-oriented usability evaluation.
Some of his projects include Puara, the GuitarAMI, the T-Stick, Probatio, Latency/communication in digital musical instruments, and Le Vivier Mobile. These projects explored gestural control of sound systems, DSP, mapping (including sound spatialization), instrument/installation design, and of course, music composition/performance. -
ANU Laptop Ensemble
The ANU Laptop Ensemble (LENS) was formed in 2018 as a collaborative effort between academics and students at The Australian National University. Since 2019, the group has reformed yearly as a "Special Topics in Computing" course inviting students from computer science, music, visual art, and digital humanities to come together and create ensemble music with computers.