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April 18, 2005
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ACS Music Departments Explore Uses of Internet 2 for Video Conferencing
Sewanee Faculty and Students
prepare for Internet 2 session
Sewanee music professors
Stephen Miller and James Carlson
Vicki Sells, Director of
Academic Technology Services
On April 10, an Internet 2 project linked a performance by the Da Capo Chamber Players given at the North Carolina School for the Arts with a class of students at Sewanee led by Profs. Stephen Miller and James Carlson and a second class at East Carolina University. This project was directed by Vicki Sells, Director of Academic Technology Services at Sewanee and Michael Rothkopf, Assistant Dean of the Graduate Program at NCSA. The session featured a performance of a new work by John Harbison "Songs America Loves to Sing." Students from all three institutions participated in a two-hour session that included a performance and question and answer sessions with the performers.
Wheaton faculty composer
Guy Urban
BSC student composer
Brad Simms
The Composers of Internet 2 project involving faculty and staff at Wheaton College (MA), Birmingham-Southern College, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham was successfully completed on March 23 in a session that allowed real time interaction between student composers and professors from Wheaton, UAB and BSC. Colleen Wheeler and Ahmed Madkour of Wheaton and Craig Hultgren of BSC led this project. The coaching sessions for CI2 composers took place on 3/23/05 via Internet2 videoconferencing. Event photos and three video streams are available to the public at http://www.wheatoncollege.edu/it_s/internet2/CI2/. A final concert featuring the winners of the competition will be held on June 1 at UAB.
Jennifer Stasack, Adam BowlesDavidson Composer and Poet
Have New Work Premiered by Luna NovaJennifer Stasack, Davidson composer, collaborated with Alan Michael Parker, Davidson poet in the creation of aa new work entitled Crossing Rivers IV. It was performed on March 21 as part of the Luna Nova concert in the Davidson College Concert Series. Diane Thornton, Artist Associate, was guest contralto. This new work will next be performed as part of the 2005 ACS New Music Festival. Also included in the program were works by Terry Vosbein of Washington and Lee and Robert Tanner of Morehouse.
Music Technology Workshop and Fourth Annual New Music Festival
July 26– August 1, 2005 at Birmingham-Southern CollegeDEADLINE FOR APPLICATION APRIL 22
Leader: Patricia Gray, ACS Technology Center
Click here to apply now for this workshop
This workshop will focus on the building of online teaching materials and on supporting the work of faculty and student composers in the Orpheus Alliance.
The areas of concentration will be:• Presentation of faculty and student research projects with supporting multimedia.
• Continued work on the building of online teaching modules for use in music theory and history classes.
• The production of the fourth annual ACS New Music Festival featuring works by ACS faculty, students, and guest composers. Winning compositions of the 2005 Student Composition Contest will be performed as well as several new faculty compositions written for Luna Nova, the ACS New Music Ensemble.
• A continuation of the Classics of the 20th Century concert series. Works by George Crumb, Bela Bartok, Gyorgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, and Charles Wuorinen will be included.
• Planning for possible Internet 2 projects
• Sessions on selected pieces of software used by composers of electro-acoustic music.
• Workshops designed for students to help in their preparation for the graduate school application process.For more information, contact Patricia Gray (gray@colleges.org)
