The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: A Composer’s Approach On this three-disc release, Jacobs School of Music professor, composer and pianist Don Freund takes Book 1 of Bach’s masterpiece and offers performance and analysis with “A Composer’s Approach,” a unique, critical eye for a series of pieces that are typically viewed through the lens of a… Read more »
Faculty
Assistant Professor John Gibson at laptop orchestra conference
Jacobs faculty composer John Gibson’s piece for laptop ensemble, “Wind Farm,” has been performed in a Beijing punk rock club and a stately Venetian palazzo. Then it was presented at the Symposium on Laptop Ensembles & Orchestras (SLEO) at Louisiana State University, April 15-17, 2012. SLEO is the first conference of its kind, addressing the problems… Read more »
Professor Jeffrey Hass presents “Nature of Human” composition at national conference
On February 11, 2012 The Nature of Human, a work for six dancers, video and computer music by choreographer Elizabeth Shea and composer Jeffrey Hass will be performed at the 2012 national conference of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the US (SEAMUS) in Appleton, Wisconsin. The video and computer music portions of the work… Read more »
Assistant Professor John Gibson’s “Red Plumes” to premiere at SEAMUS
John Gibson’s new piece for cello and live electronics, “Red Plumes,” will be premiered on February 11 at the national conference of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisc. Selected from nearly 500 submissions to the conference, “Red Plumes” was commissioned by cellist Craig Hultgren, who… Read more »
Gibson in Venice
John Gibson visited Venice, Italy, where his laptop ensemble piece, Wind Farm, was performed by the Arazzi Laptop Ensemble as part of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference. They have asked him to compose another networked laptop ensemble piece for their growing repertoire.
Gibson and Gleiser to appear on new CD
Kati Gleiser, a doctoral candidate in piano, performed Blue Traces, a piece for piano and live electronics by composition faculty member John Gibson, in Miami at the annual conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) last January. She gave such a convincing performance that the membership of SEAMUS voted to… Read more »
Don Freund’s “PASSION with Tropes” receives strong review in Sequenza21
Following two performances in May, Don Freund’s PASSION with Tropes received a strong review in the online Web site Sequenza21. “Full disclosure is necessary up front: last year I had the pleasure of studying composition with Don Freund at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University. Our working relationship was fruitful and inspiring, and I… Read more »
David Dzubay is featured on APM Composers Datebook
Produced in association with the American Composers Forum Tuesday, March 29Play today’s show | How to listenDavid Dzubay’s “Ra” OK, if you say “band music,” most people think “marching bands — sporting events.” So if someone tells you there is a band work entitled “Ra,” you might automatically respond: “sis-boom-ba.” But that’s not at… Read more »
JSOM shines at Florida national conference
The Jacobs School of Music was well represented at the national conference of the Society for Electroacousic Music in the U.S. held at the University of Miami this past week. Electronic works by the Center for Electronic and Computer Music directors, Profs. Jeffrey Hass and John Gibson were performed by Michelle Yeunhae Lie (DM, violin)… Read more »
Jeffrey Hass’s “Magnetic Resonance Music”
Jeffrey Hass had his dance video Magnetic Resonance Music played at the Minneapolis SPARK Festival and the Kansas City Electronic Muisc and Arts Alliance “Current Trends” festival. All the Bells and Whistles for band and electronics was also performed at the University of Chicago.