Faculty composer Keith Kothman will be presenting his laptop music at seminar today.
Author Archive for Keith Kothman
05
Nov
09
Kothman@Seminar today
29
Oct
09
Composer Blogs
For those of you looking to gain insight into the thought processes of various composers (which should be all of you), I’ve run across a few composer blogs of potential interest.
Starting with self-publicity, I’ve restarted my own blog, processed_sound. I tend to gravitate towards issues of composition, technology, and culture, but right now I’m tracking a few of my own projects, and my struggle with writers block.
Former Ball State Faculty member, and currently professor at Fresno State, Kenneth Froelich has an excellent blog about composition and computer notation, The Electric Semiquaver. His “about this blog” blurb puts it well: “Strategies and pedagogical approaches to help young composers create, develop, and compose out music within notation software.”
Alex Ross, classical music critic for the New Yorker, and author of the book The Rest is Noise, has moved his primary blogging activities to the New Yorker web site. His new blog is called Unquiet Thoughts. Ross frequently writes about new music and composers. His old blog, The Rest is Noise, will remain mainly to promote his book, but the archives are rich with excellent posts.
Ross also has a post that lists several composer blogs, including Alexandra Garnder, Nico Muhly, and the one that I deem a must-read, John Adams’ Hell Mouth. Adams has always been a wonderful interviewee, and writer about his own works. In his blog he gives advice to composers about first rehearsals (“Try not to panic if you can’t recognize that noise coming from the stage as something you wrote.”), and muses about flying cross country while reading the modernist philosopher Theodore Adorno while being distracted by his seat-mate watching Fox News.
Faculty composer Vera Stanojevic will be presenting in seminar today. Not everyone may be aware of her work, since Ms. Stanojevic is a contract faculty member, and not on campus all the time. Please take the opportunity to come hear her music and words.
21
Oct
09
No Comp Seminar 10/22
We won’t meet for composition seminar on 10/22.
Vera Stanojevic will present on 10/29.
The postmark deadline for the SEAMUS National Convention and the SEAMUS/ASCAP Student Composition Competition are approaching.
The postmark deadline is 10/15/09.
13
Oct
09
EM | One: Call for Works
Anyone interested in having a piece on the EM | One concert, 11/10/09, needs to get program information and a recording to Keith Kothman by Thursday (10/15/09).
Student works are encouraged, even from computer music 1 and 2 level students.
Sean Sumwalt will talk to the Composition Seminar on 10/15. He’ll discuss some recent works, including his wind ensemble piece, Butterflies.
13
Oct
09
40th Festival of New Music
The 40th Festival of New Music has a basic information page up, along with a call for scores.
