USC School of Music
COMPOSITION PROGRAM

USC Computer Music Concert

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Under the direction of Reginald Bain since 1994, the USC Computer Music Concert is a showcase for computer music by USC student and faculty. Produced annually by our Experimental Music Studio (xMUSE), it features the creative products of active research programs in muscial sonification and real-time interactive composition/performance. Come experience the thrill of watching humans and machines collaborate in real time to create the music of the future.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
School of Music
Recital Hall
Located next to the Koger Center
FREE ADMISSION
Program (pdf)

Ranging from the prime-inspired music of xMUSE director Reginald Bain's "The Music of the Primes," for laptop, to George Fetner's "Cave of the Lighted House," for alto saxophone and electronic sound, and Alex Wroten's "Excuses," for two Guitar Hero controllers and interactive electronics, this concert celebrates the range and diversity of interactive computer music.

This concert also features the world premiere of Alex Wroten's "Gold Nanorods," a computer-generated composition produced in collaboration with scientists from USC's NanoCenter. Commissioned as part of a National Science Foundation Participant Observer Fellowship, its musical materials were derived from the sonification (the mapping of data to sound) of gold nanoparticles. Other works include Daniel Pappas's "The Voice of Reason," and the computer-generated speech songs "Poesie" by Logan Young, and "4 Years" by Laura Nevitt. Please join guest artists Kevin Rogers and Matt Younglove for what promises to be an electrifying musical experience.

For more information, contact:

Dr. Reginald Bain, Director
Experimental Music Studio (xMUSE)
(803) 777-8183
rbain@mozart.sc.edu

Past Concerts

The Music of the Sphere, April 3, 2007 (pdf)

Works by Drew Allen, Reginald Bain, Dennis Miller, Daniel Pappas, and Alex Wroten.

Current Beats, February 25, 2005 (pdf)

Works by Sophocleus Charalambos, Rob Howiler, Bik Lee, Ron Parks, Amnon Wolmon, and Logan Young.

Collaborations with the Southern Exposure New Music Series

Exposed Wiring III with special guests Michael Nicolella and Paul Lansky, February 2, 2007

Works by Reginald Bain, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Lansky, Dennis Miller and Michael Nicolella

Exposed Wiring II: Music of Humans & Machines, April 5 2005 (pdf)

Works by Edmund Campion, John Fitz Rogers, Kaija Saariaho, Carl Vine, and Iannis Xenakis

Exposed Wiring I, April 8, 2003 (pdf)

Works by Reginald Bain, Michael Daugherty, Scott Lindroth, Kaija Saariaho, and Jacob ter Veldhuis.

 

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Updated 3/24/2008