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Office: 484-646-4296
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Make sure to visit Electro-Music.com!
Here are links to some out-of-this world planetarium photos and the recorded musical performances and technical talks of . . .
Improvised Computer Music and Live Video Performance,
Grim Planetarium, Wednesday, September 7, 2011 from 6 until 8 P.M.
Dr. Dale Parson, students, & guest video artist Dr. Michael O'Bannon.
Special guest musicians Jez Creek (Modulator ESP) and Bill Fox.
Banjo, guitars, laptop synthesizers, music generated directly from a human brain!
Older events . . .
Above is a photo of yours truly in the guise of Acoustic Interloper, performing a composition entitled Speck of Dust for processed banjo and the Scrabble-to-MIDI synthesized music generator at the Electro-Music 2010 Festival in upper New York state.
This one is a shot of Michael A. Williams, Nelya Storozhyshina, Radhika Vunnam and Dylan Schwesinger demonstrating the Scrabble-to-MIDI system at the October 2010 PACT Conference for the PA State System Trustees and Board of Governors.
RECORDINGS:
| Here is the electro-solo
of
an
Untitled Piece in Db Minor
(melody by Jeremy Parson, see below) that I performed on Godin xtsa guitar synth and
assorted electronics and software, at the Electro-Music 2011 Festival
near Huguenot, NY on September 11. Scrabble-to-MIDI appears extensively
in this piece, sometimes talking with a Pacarana
/
Kyma
device, acknowledgements to the K.U. Research Committee for
providing the latter music hardware / software system. |
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| Here is the electro-solo of Passing Storm (see below) that I performed on 5-string banjo and Yamaya acoustic guitar and assorted electronics and software, at the Electro-Music 2011 Festival near Huguenot, NY on September 11. | |
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| Here is the electro-duet of an Untitled Piece in Db Minor that Jeremy Parson and I performed on Godin xtsa guitar synth (me), Fender Strat electric guitar (Jeremy), and assorted electronics and software, at the September 7, 2011 Grim Planetarium seminar. Scrabble-to-MIDI appears briefly in this piece. | |
| Passing Storm, Electro Version is a processed acoustic guitar and banjo piece that I wrote and performed for the 2011 Summer Solstice Webcast at http://radio.electro-music.com on June 18. It uses the scale G A Bb C# D F F# G. | |
| Crater Dust (in Just Intonation)
and Passing are pair of
compositions for the 2010-2011 New Year's Eve Webcast at http://radio.electro-music.com.
Crater Dust was written
by Art Cohen and Steve Bowman. I wrote Passing, using some custom software
for both of these laptop performances. |
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| A Speck of Dust is my processed
banjo + Scrabble-to-MIDI performance from Electro-Music 2010 in the
photo above. This one turned out fairly well, I think. |
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| Here
is
a
Live
Mutilation of the above performance of A Speck of Dust by PHOBoS,
who
mutilated
it
remotely
from
the
Netherlands during my performance
via
the streaming
Internet feed at http://radio.electro-music.com.
This
mutilation
is
very
well
done! |
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| Crater Dust (Cohen and Bowman) from Electro-Music
2010 was performed by Steve Bowman, Richard Lainhart, Mel Morley
and myself. They were on keyboard synths and laptops. I used my Godin +
Roland GR-33 guitar synth and laptop on this one. |
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| Emergent Blues is my Summer Solstice composition for http://radio.electro-music.com, built in part from ideas not used at our Pocono Skies collaboration in May 2010. | |
| Take Cover is my Scrabble-to-MIDI + guitar synth + banjo composition for the 2009-2010 New Year's Eve Webcast at http://radio.electro-music.com. The synchronization of the stringed instruments with the Scrabble game work well on this one and A Speck of Dust above. This version of Scrabble-to-MIDI uses "synthesizer mode" on the MacBookPro to generates sounds. My students and I have played this software as an ensemble numerous times and places. | |
| Here
is
a
processed
banjo
+
MIDI
guitar
version
of
49th
Winter, a piece I
originally wrote for banjo in March 2003 after cross-country skiing in
a very quiet snowstorm in the woods. This performance is from the Fall
2009 Equinox webcast at http://radio.electro-music.com. I also performed this piece with Howard Moscovitz at the
September 30, 2009 computer audio seminar at Kutztown University, and
solo at the end of October at Electro-Music 2009. |
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| Here is my Untitled Piece for Scrabble-to-MIDI from Summer Solstice 2009 at http://radio.electro-music.com. This was the public debut of Scrabble-to-MIDI a month after it became an instrument. This early version uses "sequencer mode," which gives somewhat less precise timing than the "synthesizer mode" added later, but it has some of its own unique metric qualities. | |
| Appalachian Stream is my banjo + Ableton Live composition for the 2008-2009 New Year's Eve Webcast at http://radio.electro-music.com. | |
| Ordinary
Machinery is my banjo + Ableton Live composition from 2007,
written by Sierra Parson, Jeremy Parson and myself. I performed a live
version of this piece at Electro-Music 2008 in
Kingsport TN. I am still hoping for Sierra to write me some more prose
to use in this way. |
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| Opposing Force is a chromatic piece I wrote for 5-string banjo a few days after George W. Bush was reelected in 2004. Jeremy Parson is on electric bass and I am on my guitar synth + a lot of custom software for the effects in this recording. I also performed this in an ensemble at Pocono Skies collaboration in May 2010. | |
| Polarized Shuffle is a short
(~1 minute) piece synthesized with the StringStudio software
synthesizer using data captured, extracted and algorithmically altered
from my MIDI guitar playing in testing software for the 2006 paper
below. |
RECENT PAPERS ON COMPUTER MUSIC AND AUDIO:
| D. Parson & R. Panuski, "Real-time Grammar-based Parsing and Restructuring of Musical Streams," Proceedings of the 2011 International Computer Music Conference, Huddersfield, UK, July 31 - August 5, 2011. |
| "Algorithmic Musical Improvisation from 2D Board Games," Proceedings of the 2010 International Computer Music Conference, New York City and Stony Brook, NY, June 1-5, 2010. |
| J. Baguyos, D. Wetzel, M. Boyle, B. Lander, S. McLaughlin, S. Hewitt, K. Martynes, D. Parson, A. Cole, "A Summary and Transcript of the ICMC 2010 UnConference UnSession on Computer Music Performance," 2010 International Computer Music Conference, New York City and Stony Brook, NY, June 5, 2010. |
| "Chess-based
Composition
and
Improvisation
for
Non-musicians," Proceedings of the 9th
International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression,
p.
157-158, paper and interactive demo, Pittsburgh, June 4-6, 2009. |
| “Real-time Detection of Finger Picking Musical Structures,” Proceedings of Ninth International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, Montreal, September, 2006. I also presented an invited talk and guitar synthesizer demo of this topic at the Second Annual Electro-Music Festival in Philadelphia, June, 2006, http://event.electro-music.com/. |
RECENT EVENTS AND PERFORMANCES:
In April of 2010 several Java Programming students and I performed Scrabble-to-MIDI for the 2010 PACISE Conference (PA Computer & Information Science Educators) at West Chester University of PA. I also gave the talk and performed with Millersville students at their annual Computer Science Symposium in April 2010.
September 30, 2009 Audio Seminar: Howard Moscovitz and I hosted a computer audio seminar in the evening, including a performance of Scrabble-to-MIDI by Raphael Francis, Ryan Huber, Steve Solomon and myself, that my Java Programming students and I wrote in Fall 2008 and Spring 2009. Here is a Reading Eagle second-page news article, including a photo, on the Scrabble-to-MIDI project. We also got a first-page lead-in with a photo of Ryan's game board GUI.
I hope to create a laboratory for multimedia processing research and courses at Kutztown University over time. Please let me know if you would like to work in this area.
