ACSTC Orpheus Alliance News
February 15, 2005
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Furman Music Professors Receive Mellon Career Enhancement Grant A group of music professors has received a $22,000 award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a career enhancement grant entitled “Live Sampling: A New Direction in Electroacoustic Music Performance.” Project Coordinator Daniel Koppelman (piano and electronics) will be assisted by colleagues Tamara Matthews (voice) and Matt Olson (saxophone) in an exploration of real-time interactive electroacoustic chamber musicperformance, to take place during 2005 and 2006. This project stems from a faculty development grant awarded two years ago to a cluster of eight institutions: Furman University, Rhodes College, Denison University, DePauw University, Harvey Mudd College, Scripps College, Middlebury College, and Vassar College. The purposes of the grant from the Mellon Foundation were to enhance the careers of faculty members from the eight liberal arts colleges by addressing their expressed needs for more effective use of time, individual intellectual growth and development, and more opportunities to participate in intellectual communities. Koppelman explained, “This project is a continuation and expansion of my research over the past decade involving new possibilities for live electroacoustic music performance. Funds from the award will be used for equipment purchase, hosting a visiting artist (Daniel Schorno of STEIM in Amsterdam, an expert in live sampling), commissioning new compositions, release time, and travel for performances. I believe that the mix of piano, voice and saxophone, when combined with the creative possibilities for sonic manipulation inherent in current software applications, will result in a unique classical-jazz-electronic hybrid which can transcend stylistic boundaries and forge new compositional territory. I am tremendously excited by the opportunity to join with my exceptionally talented colleagues in this 21st-century musical adventure.”

Post-Tonal Theory Project Following on the success of the Tonal Theory Supplemental Examples Project we are looking at the possibility of beginning a Post-Tonal Theory Project. Potentially it could be made up of self-contained units that would either supplement what is already being taught or be combined into a multi-chapter "text" to serve individual students who are particularly interested in the subject. In the future it might become a more formal course taught on multiple campuses for credit. Anyone interested in further discussion about this project should write Patricia Gray at gray@colleges.org.

Vosbein Paris Quintet Featured in W&L Luna Nova Performance On January 22 Luna Nova, the ACSTC new music ensemble performed on the Sonoklect concert series at Washington and Lee University. The program included: George Crumb: Vox Balaenae Vosbein: Paris Quintet Larry Austin: Tarogato! Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony, Op. 9 (Webern trans.) The Vosbein Paris Quintet was written for Luna Nova and will be performed again at at Davidson College on March 22 and at the 2005 New Music Festival at Birmingham-Southern College.

Birmingham-Southern to Host 2005 Festival The fourth annual ACSTC New Music Festival and Workshop will be held at Birmingham-Southern College, July 26-August 1, 2005. Details about programming and registration will be available shortly.