• Ecoacoustics and Soundscape Composition

• Electroacoustic Music and Contemporary Dance

 

Publications and Presentations

"Choreo-musical Space Frames, Time Scales, and the Implications of Multi-channel Audio in Dance Performance"
Third International Conference on Music and Gesture : March 5-6 2010 : Montreal, Canada

"Dovedale by Moonlight" (with Nick Jones)
Podcast for Allen Memorial Art Museum (for Wright of Derby painting now on display at the Met) : December 2009

"Michigan Students Make Music with iPhones"
NPR story by Jennifer Guerra : Morning Edition : December 9 2009

"Music for a New Century" (pre-concert composer's talk)
SoundOn Festival : June 18 2010 : La Jolla, CA

"Production Values in Electroacoustic Practice" (panel)
with Ted Coffey (chair), Paul Koonce, Virgil Moorefield, and Kojiro Umezaki
SEAMUS National Conference : April 16-18 2009 : Fort Wayne, IN

"Slow Sounds and Deep Experience"
NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival : April 2-4 2009 : CUNY Graduate Center, NYC

"Shaping the Electroacoustic Gesture"
Dance, Timing, & Musical Gesture : June 15 2008 : Univ. of Edinburgh, UK

"Ephemeral Partners in Physicality and Abstraction: Theoretical intersections between electroacoustic music and modern dance"
Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference : June 6 2008 : Sorbonne, Paris

Lecture and Showing of Recent Work
Yale Department of Music : March 2008 : New Haven, CT

"I Have No Memory of This Place: The Changing Nature of Soundscape Composition"
Electroacoustic Music Studies Conference : 2007 : Leicester, UK

Lecture/Performance of Recent Work
NoTAM Forum lecture series : April 18 2007 : Oslo, Norway

CD release: Tomorrow will be 5m 21s shorter
Resonance: Steel Pan in the 21st Century, Quiet Design Records : 2007

"Strategizing Music/Dance Interactions: PAIR/WISEAR & Video Tracking for Interactive Performance"
Nordic Music Technology Conference : 2006 : Trondheim, Norway

"Dance/Media Interactions and PAIR/WISEAR"
Biennial Arts and Technology Symposium : 2006 : Connecticut College
Music & Gesture Conference : 2006 : Manchester, England

"PAIR and WISEAR: Wireless Interactive Dance Interface" (with David Topper)
NIME Conference : 2005 : Vancouver, Canada
expanded publication in Journal SEAMUS (v 19.1)

"(Re)hearing the Potential: Collisions and Explorations of Sonic Landscapes in Maggi Payne’s Resonant Places"
International Alliance for Women in Music Congress : 2006 : Miami, FL
SEAMUS National Conference : 2005 : Muncie, IN
SCI National Conference : 2005 : Greensboro, NC

Reviews published in Computer Music Journal (MIT Press):
Matthew Burtner’s Winter Raven, Winter '03 | Read online ->
Matthew Burtner’s Metasaxophone Colossus, Winter '05 | Read online ->
Leslie Stuck’s Pas, Spring '06 | Read online ->

Reviews published in Journal SEAMUS:
2005 SEAMUS National Conference (v 18.2)
NIME 2005 (v 18.2)

"Pursuing Boundless Practice: A Perspective on Post-disciplinary Hybridity in Higher Arts Education"
Association for Technology in Music Instruction National Conference : 2002 : Miami, FL

 

photo: shoreline of west thumb, yellowstone lake, yellowstone national park, wy