Experimental Music Night

A few photos from the Experimental Music Night at Happyland Theater in New Orleans featuring Chris Alford, Dylan Burchett, Erin Demastes, and Drew Farrar. Photos by Alexandria Smith.

LMNL Summer Fest

A few photos of Bells & Whistles from the LMNL Lit Summer Fest at Zeitgeist Theater in New Orleans. Photos by Nikki Ummel.

High Voltage Concert at LSU

A few photos from Computer Music II at the High Voltage concert at LSU performed with Dylan Burchett. Photos by Treya Nash.

Good Children Gallery Group Show Opening

A few photos of Closed Circuit, a motorized sound sculpture (wood structure on white plinth), among others at Good Children Gallery, New Orleans. Curated by Liz Lessner and Mat Keel of Yes We Cannibal, Baton Rouge.

Hear the first draft of this piece from 2021.

Department of Debris XR Performance

A short promo video for an XR performance with Dylan Burchett. This piece includes stop motion videos in Jitter triggered and altered by both gyroscope and mic input data from the Zig Sim app running on two iPhones in hamster balls accompanied by a variety of sound objects.

New Videos from EMDM Anniversary Events

For the LSU Experimental Music and Digital Media program’s 11th anniversary celebration—Perpetual Motion is a piece for handmade machines, hacked objects, handmade amps, and speaker cones performed at the Hartley / Vey Theater in downtown Baton Rouge.

New Documentation

The video from last weekend’s performance for the closing reception of no, Thing— nothing by Mat Keel and Liz Lessner is now available. More info here.

MS Paint Music

Some scores, performances, doodles, and writings are up in an online exhibit until January 8th at Studio 106 LA. Studio 106 is an artist-run online space curated from Los Angeles and Berlin. This exhibit is particularly nice because the curation is an extension of the scores themselves.

Follow the paths to find all of the hidden pieces. The curation of this exhibit follows the vision of the composer so closely that the exhibit itself is its own score, a game within a game, and a scavenger hunt all wrapped into one-- blurring the line between instruction and play, rules and freedom, order and disorder, and curator and composer.

Csound FM App

New FM application in the Csound environment Cabbage. Attached are both the standalone app and the code in one zip file at a link below. In order to use the app, Cabbage needs to be on your machine and is also linked below. If for some reason the app doesn’t open, you can open the code in Cabbage and hit the “play” button. From there, you can also export as a standalone, plugin, VCV Rack, and some other options from the “File” menu.

Download ErinFM here.

Download Cabbage here.

New Pieces

Two new short works are available to listen to below. C Foam was written with granular synthesis and physical modeling in C Sound, and Circuits was written in Python with data from LTSpice schematics.