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