Alum Carlos Garcia wins Art Prize!

Yes!!! Check this out!!! Touch Sensors! Rapping.  CRAZY VIDEO!?
How's this for a Time-Based Installation project, YO!!

Carlos Garcia on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbNgwZet9mQ

Gypsy Pond XII on VIMEO!!!

Enjoy THIS.  The sound is generated by people walking on a sidewalk...with an Arduino/vidcamera sensor hookup "measuring human activity"!  The more people, the busier the music.  The 20 foot sculpture reaches to the sky...with it's many arms symbolizing "many paths, many truths" - but striving none the less.  The Kerosene flames below symbolize the human heart, ever fervent, ever searching.  Corny? Not really.  Hard to do? VERY! (imagine a floating 20-foot sculpture, and building a stable base that will keep it afloat in 50-mph wind - we did!!).  Yep.


Gypsy Pond Music XII - U of M Digital Music Ensemble from Kyle Kramer on Vimeo.

Gypsy Pond Music XIII posted on YouTube!

GYPSY POND MUSIC XIV is JUST AROUND THE CORNER....
but don't you want to see what we did last year? (Inspired by Matisse and Barry Truax and well, of course some of our favorite Dartmouth and Princeton guys....):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqjxDQZayHY

Composer Mason Bates visits with students

Prior to his sound check with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra tonight at Hill Auditorium, composer Mason Bates stopped by the School of Music, Theatre & Dance to talk with students about integrating electronic and sampled sounds into compositions for orchestra. He talked about some of the challenges of editing, equalizing, and pitch-shifting recorded sounds to make them fit with acoustic sounds. Tonight's concert will feature his composition Alternative Energy, for which some of the electronic sounds were recorded at the particle accelerator lab Fermilab outside of Chicago.
http://www.masonbates.com/

Professor Rush performs 4'33" on Cage's 100th birthday

Recently I travelled to Mexico to celebrate the wedding of PAT alum, Jon Moniaci (shown below, in front of DME's magical performance of Gypsy Pond Music at Bowling Green University in 2002).  On the way home, it was September 5, John Cage's 100th Birthday, so naturally I did the following performance.  Special moments- the Mexican guards outdoors and a sneeze by the camerawoman.  More shots of the wedding to follow. 

My recent performance of 4'33", by John Cage:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5NlpaE6LAg

Professor Stephen Rush on tour in California

Peck/Rush/Moniaci – Listening Music from the Age of the Crystal Moon Cone

On tour on the West Coast:
May 31, 2012: UC-Irvine
8pm - donation
218 Music and Media Building
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2775

June 1, 2012: Tesmescal Arts Center
9pm –  $10
511 48th St., Oakland, CA, 94609
temescalartcenter.org

June 3, 2012: Shugar’s House of Golden Carp
8pm-donation
537 28th St. Oakland, CA, 94609

June 4, 2012: Pieter P.A.S.D. with Performance Artist Jmy
donation
420 W Ave 33, Ste 10, Los Angeles, CA 90031

Neighborhoods: Cypress Park, Lincoln Heights

PAT alumnus designs headphone processor

Devin Kerr, a graduate of our B.S. in Sound Engineering and M.A. in Media Arts programs, designed the audio signal processing algorithm in the FHX Headphone Processor.

George Brecht's Motor Vehicle Sundown

PAT students and faculty will present a rare performance of George Brecht's Motor Vehicle Sundown on Sunday May 20 at 5pm. The performance will mark the simultaneous closing of UMMA's exhibit Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life and the opening of the 12th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME). Free and open to the public.

The performance will take place in parking Lot C-2 on the south side of N. University at Thayer, next to Kraus Natural Science Building.

George Brecht's Motor Vehicle Sundown | UMMA Events

Review of U-M Symphony Band CD

A review of the University of Michigan Symphony Band CD Artifacts (Equilibrium Records), engineered, mixed, and mastered by Professor Jason Corey.

http://audaud.com/2012/05/artifacts-works-by-bright-sheng-joel-puckett-michael-daugherty-wm-bolcom-u-of-mich-sym-band-equilibrium-records/

Digital Music Ensemble premieres Stephen Rush opera in NYC

Congratulations to Professor Stephen Rush and the Digital Music Ensemble on their recent performance at the Shapeshifter Lab in New York! On the bill was Robert Ashley’s seminal work “Kit Carson” and a premiere of Rush's “US Grant Fluxkit Opera.”
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/8832038/NY/Brooklyn/Digital-Music-Ensemble/Shapeshifter-Lab/

New PAT courses

We have a couple of new PAT classes being offered in the fall. PAT 313 and PAT 451/551. Titles and descriptions are below. Check them out!

Open to all U-M students:
PAT 313 Special Topics - Detroit: Birthplace of Techno (3 credit hours)
Instructor: Alvin Hill
This course examines Detroit's integral role in the development of electronic dance music. We will survey the technological and cultural developments, particularly in the 1960's and 1970's, which set the scene for the emergence of Detroit's early techno producers, dissecting the elements that contributed to the city's unique brand of "high tech soul."

I'm told there are going to be some amazing guests from the Detroit Techno scene dropping in on the class.


Open only to PAT majors:
PAT 451/551 Interactive Media Design I (3 credit hours)
Instructor: Michael Gurevich
This course introduces the technological and theoretical foundations of designing physically interactive media experiences. Students develop interactive sensing systems and program embedded computing devices as well as real-time auditory, visual and tangible displays. Through exercises that draw on theory and techniques of interaction design, students create technological sketches and prototypes for novel devices and artworks.