Electroacoustic Music Studios at Eastman

09/25/2024

Please welcome our new EMuSE teaching assistan Matthew Lam!

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Matthew Lam is an active composer and an enthusiast of contemporary music style. His goal is to explore and experiment on a wide array of sounds and timbre, especially with contemporary instrumental techniques and live electronics. Winning multiple awards, his works were featured in numerous festivals and conferences, including June in Buffalo (USA), International Rostrum of Composers (2023: Netherlands), MUSLAB (2023: Ecuador), soundSCAPE Festival (Italy), Connecticut Summerfest (USA), SCI National Conference (USA). Groups such as the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Mivos Quartet, Del Sol Quartet, and [Switch~ Ensemble] are among the many who have presented Lam’s music over the years. Lam earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Bowling Green State University respectively. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at Eastman School of Music with Dr. Elizabeth Ogonek.

You can learn more about Matthew here: https://matthewlamcomposer.wixsite.com/composer/about

09/25/2024

Please join us in welcoming our new EMuSE teaching assistant Anak Baiharn!

Anak Baiharn is a composer with a fascination for a diverse array of musical styles. His creative passions encompass electronic music, jazz, spectralism, rock, and post-minimalism. He has participated and has been selected to work with various ensembles, festivals, and organizations such as Arditti Quartet, Bang On a Can, Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, OSSIA New Music, June in Buffalo, Florida State University Symphony Orchestra,TACETi Ensemble, IntAct, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Thailand Techno Orchestra, Borneo Ensemble, Triphens (---) Ensemble, and Wind Band Association of Singapore. Anak is currently pursuing a Master of Arts in Composition at Eastman School of Music, studying composition with Evis Sammoutis.

Learn more about Anak at https://www.anak-baiharn.com/bio

09/23/2024

Tune in to our latest video and watch Professor Mikel Kuehn introduce the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman. Learn about our teaching philosophy and the exciting developments to our studio spaces. Whether you’re a prospective student or electroacoustic music enthusiast, you won’t want to miss this!

Mikel Kuehn ’93E (MA), ’95E (PhD), Professor of Composition and Director of the Electroacoustic Music Studios @ Eastman (EMuSE), was the driving force in upd...

09/23/2024

The EMuSE 2024 season kicks off with guest composer Kotoka Suzuki! Join us Thursday, September 26th at 7:30pm in Hatch Recital Hall to hear works by Ana Dall’Ara-Majek, Kotoka Suzuki, Jonathan Harvey, and more.

About Kotoka Suzuki:
Kotoka Suzuki / 鈴木琴香 is a composer focusing on both
multimedia and instrumental practices. She has produced several
large-scale multimedia works, including spatial interactive audio-
visual work for both concert and installation settings, often in
collaboration with artists and scholars from other disciplines.
Her work engages deeply in the visual, conceiving of sound as a
physical form to be manipulated through the sculptural practice of
composition. Her work often reflects on life, breath and wind.

Watch the livestream Kotoka Suzuki / 鈴木琴香 is a composer focusing on both multimedia and instrumental practices. She has produced several large-scale multimedia works, including spatial interactive audio-visual work for both concert and installation settings, often in collaboration with artis...

04/11/2024

Looking forward to tonight!

TONIGHT (4/11) at 7:30 PM! Join the Electroacoustic Music Studios at Eastman (EMuSE) in collaboration with Professor of Composition Robert Morris, for a Portrait Concert in Hatch Recital Hall! This performance will celebrate Professor Morris '65E, who has been a member of the Eastman faculty since 1980 and is retiring in May.

Concert details & livestream: bit.ly/3TUXNqL

Robert Morris bio: bit.ly/4av86ZA
Learn about EMuSE: bit.ly/43XhuCD

04/03/2024

Come out next week for a very special concert with two large electroacoustic works by Dr. Robert Morris! Robert Morris (’65E) is a composer of a wide diversity of musical forms and media. He has composed over 180 works including computer and improvisational music. He is also known as a prominent music theorist. Check out more at the event page: https://events.rochester.edu/event/emuse_with_robert_morris_portrait_concert?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=University+of+Rochester+Calendar

03/06/2024

Watch the livestream Program PDF Kyong Mee Choi, composer, visual artist, painter, organist and poet, received several prestigious awards and grants including John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Robert Helps Prize, Aaron Copland Award, John Donald Robb Musical Trust Fund Commission...

11/02/2023

EMuSE Concert Series Watch the livestream Program PDF Jon Christopher Nelson, guest composer Shannon Reilly ’16E, ’18E (MM), guest performer (violin) Jon Christopher Nelson's electroacoustic music has been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America, and has been hono...

10/24/2023

Please join us Thursday, November 2nd at 7:30 PM for our second main series concert with EMuSE! Our guest composer will be Jon Christopher Nelson, Professor of Composition and Coordinator of the Music Electronics Curriculum at University of North Texas. We are also very happy to welcome back Eastman alum and violinist Shannon Reilly!

The program will feature the music of Mario Davidovsky, Elsa Justel, Mikel Kuehn, Robert Morris, Jon Christopher Nelson, and Hildegard Westerkamp. We look forward to seeing you there, and as always, the concert will be live-streamed through the Eastman website.

09/28/2023

EMuSE Concert Series Watch the livestream Program PDF Featuring John Chowning's groundbreaking works Sabelithe (1971), Turenas (1972), Stria (1977), and Phonē (1981) in their original multi-channel format. John Chowning, guest composer A visionary in the field of electronic music, John Chowning inv...

09/23/2023

Happening in 2 hours, come in person or tune in to the livestream!

Howard Hanson Visiting Professor of Composition Residency Watch the livestream Program PDF Composer João Pedro Oliveira holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition for the University of California at Santa Barbara. He studied organ performance, composition and architecture in Lisbon. He completed...

09/23/2023

Eastman’s electronic music composition studio is much different today than it was when new faculty member Mikel Kuehn ’93E (MA), ’95E (PhD) (pronounced “Michael Keen”) was a student in the early 1990s. Back then, says Kuehn, the computers were slow and the equipment finicky. It was the res...

09/17/2023

Other than Dr. Mikel Kuehn, our newest member of EMuSE is Connor Simpson! Connor is an excellent composer, as evident in a recent work of his, “Wrong Chain.” Bailey Wantuch premiered this work in 2022 in Bobbio, Italy as a part of the soundSCAPE new music festival. You can listen to the whole work at https://youtu.be/ZXia5BWOOkg?si=olQAs9TWGIJ19Q_x

Learn more about Connor at https://www.connor-simpson-music.com/

09/11/2023

Our first EMuSE concert of the year is in conjunction with the Eastman School of Music, with Howard Hanson Visiting Professor João Pedro Oliveira. Works include:

"Beyond" for clarinet, cello, and piano
"Tesseract" visual music (video and audio)
"In Tempore" for piano
"Burning Silver" for flute and guitar
"La Mer Émeraude" for 8-channel playback
"Dark Energy" for cello and double bass

We will also be debuting our brand new sound system in Hatch Recital Hall this concert, it's a can't miss experience!

09/11/2023

We are excited to have our first guest here in less than two weeks! This year's Howard Hanson Visiting Professor is João Pedro Oliveira, who will be giving talks to the Composition and Theory departments and presenting a concert of his electroacoustic works. You can find out more at https://www.esm.rochester.edu/composition/emuse/ and at https://www.jpoliveira.com/