2005 ACSTC Music Technology Conference
New Music Festival
Birmingham-Southern College
July 27-August 1

Faculty Agenda
Student Agenda
Rehearsal Schedule
Concert Program

The 2005 festival, held for the first time at Birmingham-Southern College and was attended by 43 faculty and students from ACS colleges as well as from MITC and CET

The workshop featured on a number of new music technologies including:

• MusicPad digital score reader for orchestral musicians
• MSP and C-Sound Reactor software
• Music Learning Objects
• The Cutler Tonal Theory Database
• iStopMotion animation project

During the workshop students were involved with the creation of a second in the series of DVDs devoted to exploring extended techniques for instruments. Content for this one will be provided by John McMurtery. Rhodes student Andrew Drannon shot the digital video.

Programming included more than thirty works played on six concerts. In addition to members of Luna Nova, performers included Cynthia Lawing (Davidson College), Gloria Cook (Rollins College), Robert Patterson (Memphis Symphony Orchestra), Diane Thornton (Davidson College), Lynn Raley (Millsaps College), andRachel Heard (Millsaps College).

Compositions on the program fall into three categories:
The 2005 Classics Series:

• Milton Babbitt: Concerto Piccolino (marimba)
• Béla Bartók: Contrasts (clarinet, violin, piano)
• George Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn (violin, flute, clarinet, piano)
• Claude Debussy: Cello Sonata (cello, piano)
• Morton Feldman: Durations 4 (violin, cello, piano)
• Brian Ferneyhough, Carceri d’Invenzione (flute)
• Gyorgy Ligeti: Horn Trio (horn, violin, piano)
• Olivier Messiaen: Le Merle Noir (flute, piano)
• Olivier Messiaen: Theme and Variations (violin, piano)
• Igor Stravinsky: Concerto for Two Pianos
• Edgard Varèse: Density 21.5 (flute)
• Charles Wuorinen: Fortune (clarinet, violin, cello, piano)

New Works written for 2005 Festival:

• Brandon Goff (Rhodes College), Butterfly in Reverse (percussion)
• Timothy Kramer (Trinity University), Vanishing Perspectives (cello)
• Charles Norman Mason Birmingham-Southern), Trenchantor! (piano)
• James Romig (Western Illinois University), Ferocious Alphabets (violin, clarinet)
• Jennifer Stasack (Davidson College), Crossing Rivers IV (contralto, cello, piano)
• Terry Vosbein (Washington and Lee), Paris Quintet (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano)
  

Winning Composition from the 2005 Student Composition Contest:

• Andrew Drannon (Rhodes College) Providence Matrix (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion)
• David Kottwitz (Rhodes College) Rhuma Sulfa (clarinet)
• Erika Pipkin (Birmingham-Southern College, student of Charles Mason) The Labyrinth (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, snare drum)
  
  

Exceprt from Review from The Birmingham News, July 29, 2005
by Phillip Ratliff

New Music Festival has impressive start

The Associated Colleges of the South--a consortium of 16 liberal arts colleges--presented the inaugural concert of its ambitious New Music Festival on Wednesday at Birmingham Southern College. If this first of six installments is any indication, this year's festival marks an impressive accomplishment for its organizers as well as an unparalleled event for Birmingham. The most notable aspect of Wednesday's concert was the manner of performance--technically near perfect, sensitive to style, well-rehearsed, possessing a rare level of confidence. Then there were the pieces themselves--inventive, uniquely engaging, transcendent of the occasional design flaw.