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March 7, 2005
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Rhodes College hosts Luna Nova Concert
turns pages for electric cello solo
with performers to discuss concert
The Rhodes College McCoy Visiting Artists series sponsored an appearance by Luna Nova, the ACS new music ensemble, on Monday, February 28. The program featured works by Ofer Ben-Amots, Nikitas Demos, Roberto Sierra, Arnold Schoenberg, James Romig, Timothy Kramer, and Stefan Weisman. During the visit members of the ensemble met with the Prof. Courtenay Harter's 20th century theory class to discuss performance techniques in contemporary music and to review works on the evening's program. Students had prepared for the session by studying online resources on the ACS music website. Later in the day members of the ensemble met individually with student composers.
Music Technology Workshop and Fourth Annual New Music Festival
July 26– August 1, 2005 (TO BE HELD AT Birmingham-Southern College)
Leader: Patricia Gray, ACS Technology Center
Intended Audience: music faculty, librarians, and students
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:
• 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, and Charles Wuorinen will be included.
• Presentation of student research projects with supporting multimedia.
• 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)Media, New Symposium to Be Held June 7-9, 2005, at Grinnell College
Spaces Available to ACSThe ACS Technology Center would like to draw your attention to an upcoming symposium about New Media sponsored by the Midwest Instructional Technology Center (MITC), one of the NITLE regional centers. The Symposium will be a forum for participants to present pedagogical models, discuss interdisciplinary and inter-institutional collaborations, and share creative and curricular strategies for the use of digital technology in the arts. We can send 2 teams of 2-3 people from ACSTC/NITLE Southern Region institutions. Please distribute this notice to anyone on your campus who might be interested in this opportunity.
To apply, please send a list of potential team members to Jennifer Whitman, jwhitman@colleges.org. If we get more than 2 nominations, decisions will be made on the basis of early receipt of interest combined with overall institutional participation in NITLE/regional Centers events.
DEADLINE: Nominations must be in by 5 PM Monday April 11, 2005 to jwhitman@colleges.org.
EVENT DESCRIPTION:
Media, New Symposium to Be Held June 7-9, 2005, at Grinnell College A symposium entitled Media, New will take place June 7-9 at Grinnell College for faculty members in theater, dance, music, visual art, and
similar disciplines and their academic support partners in technology organizations and the library. The Media, New symposium will promote the substantive creative use of digital technology at liberal arts colleges by enabling participants to share strategies for the use of new media, present effective pedagogical models and discuss insights of new media theory and constraints of its practice. Participants will engage in a discourse on the expansive definition of art and the blurring boundaries between music, visual art, dance, theater and other disciplines. The symposium seeks to embrace and explore cross-disciplinary practices in new media and the effects of digital technologies on contemporary culture. Recognizing that most individuals grappling with these questions from ACM and GLCA institutions are trained in traditional disciplinary frameworks Media, New will address the interface between new media and traditional art forms. Media, New is seeking teams of up to three members that would include a mix of faculty from theater, dance, music, visual art, or similar disciplines along with a technologist, librarian or other staff member charged with supporting their exploration of new media.All reasonable transportation, room, board, and related expenses are covered for registered participants.
