Current Projects and Research

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Computer Music Performance Interface Design

• Interactive Event Manager (IEM): a system for linking processing modules in a scriptable, event-driven environment.
  • Presented at SEAMUS 2007.
  • Updated for SEAMUS 2008 presentations with Dr. Andrew Walters
  • Demonstration session at ICMC 2009 in Montreal, QC.
  • Includes fully functional performance system prepared for Thea Musgrave's Narcissus (1987)
  • Used in performance for Pan's Music Imparts Form to Primal Matter, for clarinet, bass clarinet, and interactive electronics (2010), by Andrew Walters.
• Thea Musgrave's Narcissus for flute or clarinet and digital delay
  • Check out the new performance materials featured on the IEM page.
  • Performance software now available | Standalone application (Mac OS only)
  • Paper on Narcissus presented at the 2004 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Miami: "Analysis and Reconstruction of Interactive Electroacoustic Works for Obsolete Technology: Thea Musgrave’s Narcissus"
  • Described in chapters 6 & 9 of my dissertation.
• Jonathan Kramer's RENASCENCE [1974] originally for B-flat clarinet, tape delay system, and prerecorded tape
  • IEM version under development (2009).
  • Presented in performance and as a paper at the 2006 Spark Festival (Minneapolis).
  • Described in chapter 7 of my dissertation.
• Bruce Pennycook's PRAESCIO IV [1990] originally for B-flat clarinet and "MIDI Live" system
  • IEM version under development (2009).
  • Presented in performance at Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland in 2006
  • Presented as part of my DMA lecture-recital at the University of Arizona, 2004
  • Described in chapter 6 & 10 of my dissertation.
• Cort Lippe's Music for Clarinet and ISPW [1992] originally for B-flat clarinet and ISPW system
  • IEM version under development (2009).
  • Described in chapter 8 of my dissertation.

DMA Dissertation: University of Arizona, August 2004

• "Analysis, Reconstruction, and Performance of Interactive Electroacoustic Music for Clarinet and Obsolete Technology: Selected Compositions by Musgrave, Pennycook, Kramer, and Lippe"

Publications

• Paper given at the 2007 SEAMUS conference in Ames, IA on my new strategy for designing interactive performance systems: "Building A Sustainable Repertoire: A Performer's Approach to Realizing Interactive Electroacoustic Works." or get it from the SEAMUS web site: pdf
• Article in Organised Sound, December 2006: "A model for the conservation of interactive electroacoustic repertoire: analysis, reconstruction, and performance in the face of technological obsolescence"
  Organised Sound (2006), 11: 273-284 Cambridge University Press
• Paper on Jonathan Kramer's RENASCENCE [1974], originally for B-flat clarinet, tape delay system, and prerecorded tape, presented at the 2006 Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: "Performing Jonathan Kramer's RENASCENCE"
• Paper on Analysis and reconstruction of the digital delay system for Thea Musgrave's Narcissus presented at the 2004 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) in Miami: "Analysis and Reconstruction of Interactive Electroacoustic Works for Obsolete Technology: Thea Musgrave’s Narcissus"