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April 2021 Newsletter
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CECM at SEAMUS Students and Faculty of the CECM will participate in the upcoming national conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). Anne Liao has been selected as one of four finalists for an ASCAP/SEAMUS commission, for her piece, Water, Bowls and Rocks, for Wacom Tablet, Max, and Kyma. No undergraduate at IU has ever been a finalist. Alex Tedrow has received the Allen Strange Memorial Award for his piece, Biff, for baritone saxophone and electronics, as performed by Jake Simons. Nobody from IU has ever won this award. We’re excited that Anne and Alex are two of the five composers recognized by SEAMUS this year from a national pool of student composers. In addition to Anne’s and Alex’s pieces, Jeewon Kim’s Mneme and Xinglan Deng’s Prisoner of Time, both for fixed media, will appear on the conference program. Kaitlin Pet, a doctoral student in SICE now studying in the CECM, will present her paper, “Applications of Interactive Score Following with Informatics Philharmonic in Electroacoustic Performance.” Chi Wang will present her new piece, Action-Reaction, for two Gametrak controllers, Max, and Kyma. Prof. Wang and John Gibson will participate in a panel discussion, “Digital Equity: Teaching Electronic Music Online during a Pandemic.” Prof. Gibson was recently elected as Secretary of SEAMUS and will join the board in May. |
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Pierce Baruk to attend Atlantic Music Festival Pierce Baruk was recently accepted into the 2021 Atlantic Music Festival Composition Program (sessions one and two, June 28th – July 25th). He will receive private lessons from AMF’s world-renowned artist-faculty members (roster found on website) and participate in daily seminars and masterclasses. Throughout the program, Pierce will work toward a premiere performance in collaboration with the Contemporary Ensemble or as a participant in AMF’s motion sensor program (The MUGIC™ Lab). In addition, he will take part in both the Screen Scoring program (compositional process of scoring for the motion picture, orchestration using virtual and acoustical instruments, editing and mastering, screen scoring industry) and the Future Music Lab program (programming for musicians, MaxMSP bootcamp, electronic music seminars). |
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An American in Paris Composer Aron Frank (BM 2013, currently MM in Scoring for Visual Media) has been awarded the “Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship” to live and study abroad in Paris, France for the 2021-22 academic year. During this period of time, he will pursue a diploma in film scoring at the Conservatoire de Paris (Paris Conservatory), and will serve as artist-in-residence at the Fondation des États-Unis. In addition, his score for the film “Yugen” was recently recorded successfully by The Americas Chamber Orchestra at IU Jacobs. The short will be premiered at Film Independent (Los Angeles) later this year. |
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Walker Smith Receives Goldwater Scholarship Undergraduate composition major Walker Smith has received a 2021 Goldwater Scholarship, the most prestigious award for undergraduate research in the sciences. From a pool of over 5,000 students from 438 universities nationwide, only 410 students were selected this year for the award. Walker is pursuing a double major in Music Composition and Chemistry, and he received this award for his research in the organic chemistry lab of Dr. Kevin Brown at IU. Walker’s research focuses on developing novel reactions and techniques to address problems faced in the chemical synthesis of medicines, natural products, and molecules for a wide array of other applications. He plans to pursue a Ph.D. in organic chemistry after graduating and hopes to eventually teach and conduct organic chemistry research as a university professor.You can view the 2021 press release on the Goldwater website here:https://goldwater.scholarsapply.org/2021-scholar-press-release/ |
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