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May 2022 Newsletter
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Han Lash Joins the Composition Department Faculty We are honored to have composer Han Lash join the JSOM Composition Faculty in the Fall as Associate Professor. As a composer, harpist, dancer, teacher, and scholar, Han brings considerable experience from their multi-faceted career, and we are excited to have them as a valued member of the faculty. |
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Larry Groupé Promoted to Full Professor Prof. Larry Groupé, director of the Music Scoring for Visual Media program, was recently promoted to the rank of Full Professor. During his time here, Larry has grown the MSVM program exponentially and continues to maintain an illustrious career as a composer. We are delighted by Larry’s well-deserved honor, and we look forward to continuing to work with him as a respected colleague, composer, mentor, and teacher. |
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Francisco Cortés-Álvarez’s (MM ’11, DM ’16) La Serpiente de Colores premiere with Gustavo Dudamel Francisco Cortés-Álvarez’s La Serpiente de Colores (2022) will be premiered by Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel along with Bethoveen’s 9th Symphony and another premiere of a piece written by Peruvian composer Gonzalo Garrido-Lecca on May 26th at the Walt Disney Hall. Additional performances on the 27, 28 and 29th. This piece was commissioned and will be performed as part of the LAPhil Pan-American Music Initiative curated by Gabriela Ortiz and Paul Dessene. |
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Recent Premieres of Music by Dorothy Chang (DM ‘00) Dorothy Chang has received premieres of three new pieces. These include Precipice, commissioned by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Thomas Søndergård, conductor; Skizzen, commissioned by the Calgary Symphony Orchestra and conductor Rune Bergmann; and Hear my prayer (After Purcell), commissioned by Canzona (choral ensemble) and Artistic Director Kathleen Allan. Dorothy’s chamber opera Shadow Catch, a collaboration with three other composers, was produced by the University of British Columbia Opera Ensemble in March 2022. Most recently, her composition Flight: Concerto for Flute and Orchestra was nominated for Classical Composition of the Year for the 2022 JUNO Awards (with soloist Paolo Bortolussi, also an IU alum!) |
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Artistic Residency in Paris, France for Aron Frank (BM ’12, MM ’21) Aron Frank (BM, MM) has received a second artistic residency in Paris, for the 2022/23 academic year. During this period of time, he will serve as an artist-in-residence at the Cité internationale des arts, and will pursue an independent research project at IRCAM, a leading institute for musical/scientific research. In addition, this summer Aron will continue his studies in composition at the Écoles d’art américaines de Fontainebleau, as the recipient of a scholarship. |
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Multiple Premieres and Performances for Stacy Garrop (DM ’00) Stacy Garrop has enjoyed two recent premieres. In a House Besieged for choir and organ was premiered by The Crossing and performed on tour in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. Her arrangement for wind ensemble of her piece The Battle of the Ballot was premiered April 19 by the University of Colorado Wind Symphony under Donald J. MicKinney. Other performances include her wind symphony piece Quicksilver, her orchestra piece Bohemian Café, Love’s Philosophy for chorus, and the consortium premiere of Alpenglow, performed by the Mansfield University Concert Wind Ensemble under Adam Brennan. |
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Louis Goldford (MM ’14) Premiere with the International Contemporary Ensemble On April 16, Louis Goldford’s latest work premiered with the International Contemporary Ensemble at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York City. Mauvaise foi (2022) for soprano, ensemble, electronics, and reactive lighting, takes the partials of Alice Teyssier’s voice and smoothly “melts” them into non-vocal instrumental timbres. The piece finds these gestures orchestrated for an ensemble of eleven players, and is the latest in an ongoing collaboration between Louis and poet Katia Bouchoueva. Concert video and audio documentation will follow, but until then an Instagram highlight includes brief excerpts of rehearsal and performance footage. |
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Miggy Torres (MM ’19) Premieres New Work for “Sentient Sculpture” Miggy Torres premiered Autopoietic Bloom, a suite of machine-improvised works written for Amatria, a “sentient sculpture” built by the Ontario-based architecture studio and research group, Living Architecture Systems Group (LASG), led by architect Philip Beesley. The sculpture, installed at Luddy Hall at IU’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, features 10-channel audio, dynamic light fixtures, and leaf-like vibrating acrylic fronds that work together to simulate biological processes.Autopoietic Bloom comprises custom software to allow the sculpture to improvise upon a suite of improvisation schemes, written by the composer, in response to external stimuli such as local weather patterns. The work interrogates themes of consciousness, identity, and how human relationships are shaped and mediated by their surrounding architecture.The work premiered on April 11th to great acclaim. Autopoietic Bloom is set to be installed perpetually in Luddy Hall as an addition to Amatria’s behavior patterns. To learn more about Autopoietic Bloom, visit the composer’s website. |
Student News |
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Daixuan Ai Will Attend Aspen Music Festival for Composition This summer, Daixuan will be attending the Aspen Music Festival Susan and Ford Schumann Center for Composition Studies with a fellowship. During this 2-month program, she will study with composers Christopher Theofanidis and Stephen Hartke. Her premieres there will include a chamber ensemble piece for the First Glimpse concert, an orchestra piece read by the Conductor’s Orchestra, and a song cycle performed by an Aspen singer. |
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Yi-De Chen’s Works Featured in NYCEMF 2022 and Earth Day Model Art 2022 Yi-De Chen’s The Deep Ocean for piano and live electronics (2021) will be featured in the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2022. In this piece, the electronics part involves sixteen pre-recorded piano fragments, live-processed in Max. To elaborate on his image of the deep ocean, the composer uses thick chords to make the piano part more resonant and expand the electronic music part. The transformed fixed media has a longer sustain, which supports and blends with piano sounds.Also, Chen’s The Changeable Weather for live electronics (2020) was featured in the Earth Day Art Model Festival 2022, a global telematic and media event held on International Earth Day. This festival is sponsored and presented by Deck 10 Media and the Tavel Arts Technology Research Center at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Chen video-documented his interactive electronic music work, for nanoKONTROL2, Max, and Kyma, in November 2020. This video documentation is a live performance that shows him operating the nanoKONTROL2 in Taiwan, with the sound produced in Jacobs School’s CECM Studio in real-time, using the UDP network transmission infrastructure. Chen appreciates all the support he has received from his mentors at Jacobs. |
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Hippocrates Cheng Collaborates with Chinese Puppetry Master Wong Fai to Create Puppet Play Touring Performance Hong Kong Puppet and Shadow Art Center and young composer and music director Hippocrates Cheng co-created the touring performance for this program. The Group joins hands with music ensemble ‘Sync 5’ to perform the traditional puppetry play, with original compositions played by Chinese and Western instruments, showcasing the artistic skills of traditional Chinese puppetry. See more details here. |
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Multiple Festival Performances for Shuyu Lin Shuyu Lin’s music In a Station of the Metro–for Alto, Alto flute, and viola will be performed at the MATA festival by International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE). Her electronic music, Who are you, Composer, Conductor or Composer?–for live electronic, has been featured in the 2022 Earth Day Art Model (earthdayartmodel.org). She attended 20th Electronic Music Midwest [EMM] to perform another electronic music piece Feather Mallet--for Kyma, Max, and Wii Remoter. |
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Walker Smith’s “The Sound of Molecules” Accepted into ICMC, Featured in IU College of Arts and Sciences News Article Undergraduate Walker Smith’s composition The Sound of Molecules, which premiered on Indiana University’s Center for Electronic and Computer Music Fall Concert in December 2021, has been accepted into the 2022 International Computer Music Conference, hosted by University of Limerick in Limerick, Ireland from July 3-9. His piece was also featured in an IU College of Arts & Sciences news story! Check it out here to learn about how Walker has integrated his chemistry research and studies in electronic music to create this fun piece! |
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