Category: teaching
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soundscapes around the world
Over the spring and summer of 2020 my students and I worked on a four-channel soundscapes installation that created a continuously remixed and varying aural collage of sound recorded from around the globe: Ecuador, Japan, Cuba, Antarctis, Europe, etc. The software was written by Clarissa Ray Porst in PD using some of my Markov Chain…
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Organ – Remote
Over the spring and summer of 2020, my students and I worked on new pieces for the MIDI-controllable Kuhn Organ of the Philharmonie Essen. Some of these were algorithmically generated, others more traditionally composed. Originally the idea was to present a live stream during the early stages of the corona pandemic but this was postponed…
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WDR Broadcast on Electronic Composition @ ICEM (in German)
On September 21st 2020 I was a guest of Johannes Zink and Frank Hilberg at WDR Cologne. Johannes and I spoke about the Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media at the Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen, in particular the compositions of my students of Electronic Composition there (Tamon Yashima, Sebastian Wendt, and Tim…
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Q&A for Barbara Maurer’s New Music Masters Seminar (in German)
The following questions were put to me by Prof. Barbara Maurer in preparation for a portrait in her Masters in New Music seminar. BM: Was ist Musik für Dich? ME: Als Nomen, erstens: Klangkobjekte oder oft Konstrukte, die man bewusst anhört, um eine ästhetische Erfahrung hervorzubringen. Als Verb (musizieren): die meist menschlich-soziale Aktivität des Zusammensetzens…
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Why I’m leaving UK academia
(and no, it’s not just Brexit) Last year I started playing competitive squash in the East of Scotland League. After the matches, meals and drinks are provided by the hosting club in a social setting. Squash is a sport which attracts people of all ages from all walks of life. I have spoken to actuaries,…
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Control Waves and Guest Professorship at the Folkwang University, Essen
I’m just coming to the end of my second week of teaching in the Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media (ICEM) at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany. It’s a pleasure to be here, working with the dedicated and friendly students and staff. I’ll be a Guest Professor until the end of 2016 and…