Friday, March 25, 2011

"Collaborative Performance for the Masses: Distributed Instruments through HTML5 and Rails"

Music Forum on TODAY. Composition students are especially encouraged to attend!

MDA 247 @ 2pm

Dr. Jesse Allison, "Collaborative Performance for the Masses: Distributed Instruments through HTML5 and Rails"
Abstract:

Collaborative art & sound experiences are very difficult to coordinate.  We will examine the peculiarities, problems, and possibilities for shared performance when distributing an instrument over the web, and examine 2 works that utilize this approach: Photinus and Flickr Gettr v4.



SoM Faculty members to present at prestigious conference in Oslo

http://www.nime2011.org/program/presentations/


Professors Stephen Beck and Jesse Allison had presentations accepted to the NIME (New Instruments for Musical Expression) conference, the pre-eminent international conference on new interactive music technologies. 

 

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

LSU School of Music faculty perform with Christopher O'Riley

Katherine Kemler, Chip Zoller (DMA student), Gabriel Beavers
Seth Orgel and Robert DiLutis
March 11, 2011 at LSU's School of Music Recital Hall

@Swine Palace--Adam Rapp's, The Metal Children

http://www.2theadvocate.com/entertainment/magazine/The-Metal-Children.html

Adam Lau/Advocate staff photo

LSU's Raúl Gómez - Reportaje para Que Pasa New Orleans (Telemundo KGLA T42)

Sunday, March 20, 2011

LSU School of Music grad student and music program at LA School for the Visually Impaired

 Michael Durham is a grad student in Music Theory at LSU and has a music program at the Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired. Here's an uplifting feature on Baton Rouge's Channel 9 WAFB.


http://www.wafb.com/Global/category.asp?C=20267&nav=menu57_8_1

Friday, March 18, 2011

Digital Media by Jesse Allison

Here's a review/post about a piece assistant professor Jesse Allison made in collaboration with the visual artist John Fillwalk that was released this week.  


The piece made the Second Life editors destination list.  
http://secondlife.com/destinations/    or   http://secondlife.com/destination/flickr-gettr

The mobile device controlled version is going to be unveiled at the RIMMEA conference NSF event on the 18th.   http://www.i-m-a-d-e.org/rimmea/   

Jesse Allison is a faculty member in the The Arts, Visualization, Advanced Technologies and Research, or AVATAR, Initiative in Digital Media and assistant professor in LSU's School of Music, where he is a faculty member in the Experimental Music & Digital Media area. He also holds a joint appointment with the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, where AVATAR is housed. Prior to joining LSU, he worked as a sonic and hybrid media artist, serving as the Virtual Worlds Coordinator for Interactive Arts Research and Development for Digital Intermedia Art and Animation (IDIA) at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Allison is also President of Hardware Engineering of Electrotap, LLC, an innovative media arts firm.

As an artist, Allison has disseminated works and research around the globe through live performance art, interactive installations, virtual and hybrid worlds installations, and paper presentations. At Electrotap, he has developed sensor technology, interactive software, and commercial audio plugins through all stages of production. Through his research at IDIA, he taught sonic and hybrid arts and led teams of faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and external organizations in large-scale projects. Allison received his doctor of musical arts in composition from UMKC (the University of Missouri -- Kansas City).


Tuesday, March 15, 2011

LSU School of Music Masters students with Christopher O'Riley

You can see/hear these talented young women in action--performing the Brahms Quintet. They are all graduate students in the LSU School of Music.  http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13262740

l. to r. LSU grad students (and where they received their previous degrees) with Christopher O'Riley--
Joy Keown (North Carolina School of the Arts), Annie Hsu (Peabody Institute), Monica de la Hoz (University of New Mexico), and Xiaolin Li (LSU)

Janice H. Pellar Creative Arts Entrepreneurship Project events

In the course of two weeks the Janice H. Pellar Creative Arts Entrepreneurship Project is pleased to present:
 
This Friday and Saturday (March 18-19) "How to Market your ideas, your projects, and yourself," led by Sean Reusch, a successful performer/teacher/chamber musician in San Diego, CA.  He has taught at UCSD and San Diego State Universities.  The workshops will particularly focus on marketing to presenters conferences and agents.
 
Next Friday, March 25  - "Why must we be entrepreneurial" and "Nuts and Bolts of being your own business - taxes, bookkeeping, and intellectual property," led by Ray Ricker from the Eastman School of Music.  Ray will also be discussing his "Street-Wise Professor" book.  
 
All the Friday events will take place in MDA 249 beginning at 3:30 - 6:30 pm with a pizza break in the middle.  Saturday March 19th will go from 9:30 am until 12:00. 


Award winning flute student from LSU School of Music

Christiana Compton is a sophomore flute performance major in the School of Music at LSU.  She was the winner of the Collegiate Level Young Artist Competition in Woodwinds for the Music Teachers  National Conference (MTNA) held on October 16, 2010 in Nachitoches, LA at Northwestern State University.  She was also the alternate winner for the Collegiate Young Artist Competition in Woodwinds at  the South Central Division of MTNA held at the University of 
Oklahoma in Norman, OK on January 16, 2011. Ms. Compton is a student of Katherine Kemler.



Friday, March 11, 2011

Friday, March 4, 2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

New York Times review of Canadian Opera Company at BAM

Ckick here for review

First review of Canadian Opera Company at BAM

Lepage's Watery, Magical "Nightingale" Lepage's staging of Stravinsky's fable "The Nightingale" surfaces in a wading pool at BAM



This photo provided by the Brooklyn Academy of Music shows Russian bass Ilya Bannik in the role of The Emperor is presented with the mechanical bird from Japan during the final dress rehearsal of "The Nightingale" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House Feb. 28, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Brooklyn Academy of Music, Jack Vartoogian)

Hold Me To This by Jeff Roedel in 225

Article about Christopher O'Riley at LSU

Christopher O'Riley
Photo by Eddy Perez

LOL--LSU's Laptop Orchestra article

Grid Makes Laptops Sing by Miriam Boon