Category Archives: Guest Talks

24.Mar.2015 Steve Antosca & Pictures on Silence + National Gallery of Art New Music Ensembles

WHEN: Tuesday, Mar. 24th, 10:00AM ////  WHERE: NYU Music Dept. Rm 220 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) /// This event is free and open to the public. DC-based Composer Steve Antosca will present his work My End is My Beggining, with live performances by harp-sax duo Pictures on Silence of Noah Getz and Jacqueline Pollauf and the National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble […]

10.Mar.2015 Steven Takasugi @ NYU Music – FAS

WHEN: Tuesday, Mar. 10th, 10:00AM ////  WHERE: NYU Music Dept. Rm 220 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) /// This event is free and open to the public. Steven Takasugi will present his recent work Slideshow. bio Steven Kazuo Takasugi, born 1960 in Los Angeles, studied composition with Noah Creshevsky, Bunita Marcus, Morton Feldman, Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa and Roger Reynolds […]

4.Mar.2015 Phil Niblock @ NYU Music – FAS

WHEN: Wednesday, Mar. 4th, 6:00PM ////  WHERE: NYU Music Dept. Rm 220 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) /// This event is free and open to the public. The legendary composer and film maker Phil Niblock will present some of his recent work. bio Phill Niblock makes thick, loud drones of music, filled with microtones of instrumental timbres which generate […]

26.Feb.15 Curtis Roads on “Rhythm in Electroacoustic Music”

WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 26th, 5:30PM (Dept. Colloquium Series) ////  WHERE: NYU Music Dept. Rm 320 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) /// This event is free and open to the public. Curtis Roads, (UC Santa Barbara), will present a lecture referencing his chapter Rhythm in Electroacoustic Music  from his newest book Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic (Oxford Press, 2012) in the Department […]

24.Feb.15 Experimental Music and Sound Art from Spain through the work of Álvarez-Fernández, Ferrer-Molina, & Isaac Diego

WHEN: Tue, Feb. 24th, 10:30AM (Comp. Seminar) ////  WHERE: NYU Music Dept. Rm 220 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) abstract The works of Ferrer-Molina, Isaac Diego and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández inhabit the margins between experimental music and sound art, while also exploring conceptual art, performance, experimental video and other possibilities for developing our relationship with sound. Their activities […]

9.Dec.14 Ashley Fure on “Matter vs. Maker: Chaos and Creative Practice”

WHEN: Tue, Dec. 9th, 10:30AM (Comp. Seminar) ////  WHERE: NYU Music Dept. Rm 220 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) abstract Despite their wildness, chaotic spectra are rich with acoustic detail that can inform broader musical structures. Sounds like scraped metal and bowed cardboard bring a visceral materiality that highlights the friction and muscularity in sound production. This lecture tracks […]

24.Nov.14 NYC Patching Circle presents: Nate Crepeault + Eric Barry Drasin

WHEN: Monday, Nov. 24th, 6:30PM ///// WHERE: NYU Music Dept. 24/32 Waverly Pl., Rm. 220, NY 10003 bios Nate Crepeault:  Nathan Crepeault, graduate of New York University’s music theory and composition program, is a Computer Music Performer, Max/MSP Programmer and Bassist.  Exploring boundaries of Real-time sound performance, Nate has engineered a comprehensive set of tools, […]

11.Nov.14 Rand Steiger on his work + live clarinet and electronics with ICE’s clarinetist and co-director Joshua Rubin

WHEN: Tuesday, November 11th, 10:30AM (Composition Seminar) ////  WHERE: NYU Music Department Room 220 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) Rand Steiger will present on his work, including live demonstrations of his live electronics designed in Pure Data with clarinetist Joshua Rubin. You can see them working together in the performance of Steiger’s cyclone: Scores, reviews and more information is […]

29.Oct.14 Experimental Turntablist Maria Chavez presenting and performing in MAP class

WHEN: Wednesday, October 29th, 11:00AM (MAP Class) ////  WHERE: NYU Music Department Room 320 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) bio Born in Lima, Peru, Maria Chavez is mainly recognized in the art community as an improviser, sound artist, DJ and curator. Influenced by improvisation in contemporary art, her sound installations, visual objects and live turntable performances focus […]

28.Oct.14 Eric Chasalow on “Composing From Memory: the convergence of archive creation and composition”

WHEN: Tuesday, October 28th, 10:30AM (Composition Seminar) ////  WHERE: NYU Music Department Room 220 (24/32 Waverly Place, NY 10003) bio Eric Chasalow is widely recognized as a composer as comfortable in the studio as the concert hall.  He is especially well known for creating a vivid kind of “super-musique concrete” that combines traditional instruments with manipulated pre-recorded […]