Mike Vercelli performed “Power” for gyil and electronic sound at Bowling Green State University’s New Music Festival on October 18, 2014. I want to especially thank Kurt Doles, the director of the New Music Festival and director of the Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music at BGSU, for having us.
I am thrilled to report that I have been asked to be a guest composer for IWU’s 150th Anniversary celebration next Spring in Bloomington, IL! My beloved alma mater has commissioned me to compose a new piece (a response to the 4th movement of Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet) for performance in March along with another of …
My newest piece, “Power” was written for my friend and gyil master Mike Vercelli (www.michaelvercelli.com). Mike and I went to school together at Bowling Green State University and I was very excited when Mike asked me to write a piece for the gyil, a xylophone from Ghana, West Africa. The piece is scheduled to be …
westliberty.edu/madfest – Coming on April 11th, 2014, the WLU MAD Fest is a celebration of the Digital Arts. WLU students and area high school students submit works of animation, graphic design, electronic music, web design, etc. to be judged by a panel of guest professionals in the various fields of digital media and art. The …
I presented two sessions at the Ohio Music Educators Association conference in Columbus, OH on February 7th, 2014. In the first session, Make Your Own Music Software – An Introduction to Max, I showed participants example of applications created with Max and the basics of graphical programming. The second, Expressive Performance with the iPad – …
I presented a session on Max at the Texas Music Educators Association conference in San Antonio, TX on February 15th, 2014. The session, titled “Make Your Own Music Software. An Introduction to Max.” showed examples of applications created with Max for a wide variety of musical and pedagogical purposes. See the Software page to download …
I’m hitting all the MEA’s this year! On March 20th I will again be presenting at a Music Education conference (the third time this year!). This time it’s the West Virginia Music Educators Association conference in Wheeling, West Virginia. If you’re attending, please come to my presentation titled “Make Your Own Music Software – An …