Tuesday, April 4th @ 8:00pm in the ROD Concert Hall
The California Electronic Music Exchange Concert series is back for another year. The concert series features works by graduate composers and sound artists from CalArts, Mills College, UCSB, UCSC, UCSD and Stanford University. CalArts will be hosting a concert on Tuesday, April 4th. More information about CEMEC 2017 can be found on the CEMEC website
Monday, December 4th @ 2:00pm in B304 | Tuesday, December 5th @ All day in B305A
ESP visiting artist, composer, and sound artist Bryan Jacobs will discuss his work in B304 during ESP Forum on Monday, December 4th. Bryan will also be available on Tuesday, December 5th to meet with students. A signup sheet for lessons with Bryan is posted on the door of B305A.
Composer, performer, and sound artist, Bryan Jacobs’ work focuses on interactions between live performers, mechanical instruments and computers. His pieces are often theatrical in nature, pitting blabber-mouthed fanciful showoffs against timid reluctants. The sounds are playfully organized and many times mimic patterns found in human dialogue. Hand-build electromechanical instruments controlled by microcontrollers bridg e acoustic and electroacoutic sound worlds. These instruments live dual lives as time-based concert works and non-time-based gallery works.
His music has been performed by ensembles such as the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, Wet Ink, International Contemporary Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Ensemble Pamplemousse, and defunensemble. His music has been featured at many music festivals in Europe and the US. He is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellow. He has performed his own compositions for guitar and electronics at the Stone (NYC), Miller Theater (NYC), and the Wulf (LA). In addition to his artistic endeavors, Bryan is the co-founder of Qubit, a New York based new music initiative that presents mostly emerging artists whose work involves creative uses of technology.
Tuesday, November 8th @ 4:00pm in B305B | Wednesday, November 9th @ 4:00pm in B305B
ESP guest artist, computer musician, and sound artist Cooper Baker will being giving a two day workshop on Pure Data. All are welcome to attend. The workshops will start with the basics of Pure Data and will progress into the workshop group building a fully functional synthesizer program.
Monday, November 7th @ 2:00pm in B304
Cooper Baker is a sound artist living in San Diego, California. He regularly plays experimental music at venues along the west coast and his artwork has been exhibited in galleries and publications throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to his own creative output, he provides other artists and companies with custom software and electronics as a creative technical consultant. Originally from Los Angeles, he moved to San Diego to attend the University of California San Diego where he earned his Ph.D. while studying with Miller Puckette, Tom Erbe, and F. Richard Moore. Prior to enrollment at UCSD he was a music faculty member at California Institute of the Arts where he also received his MFA in experimental composition and finished his BFA in music technology. While at CalArts he refined his artistic practice and began incorporating new and experimental electronic media in his artwork and music production, under the guidance of Morton Subotnick, Mark Trayle, and Barry Schrader.