Sound Design for Prelude to a Kiss
We had some fun with the sound design for the TAMU mainstage production of Prelude to a Kiss… directed by Anne Quackenbush. In addition to using music from TAMU alumni band The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (some of which
Available for Intermedia Performance Workshops
…Over the years, I’ve developed a model for composition interdisciplinary/intermedia performances and have used it to devise performances with my students, typically getting a dozen students involved in one performance. I can do this at your school too, adapting an
PerfTech students presented new compositions for live electronics with a 3D surround sound system in TAMU’s Fallout Theatre. The concert featured a performance by the TAMU Laptet, TAMU’s freshman laptop ensemble, one by guest artist Ivica Ico Bukvic… (Virginia Tech).
PopMusing: On Evil
…Students and faculty met to discuss the notion of evil in music, from Paganini to Robert Johnson to the Rolling Stones to death metal. It was a great mixing of minds at all levels of academia to reflect on deeper
Third Prize in Music/Architecture Competition
Research Embodied, a site-specific intermedia performance created for the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library with designer Autum Casey was selected as a finalist from 70 international submissions, performed on October 19, 2011, and awarded third prize in the Music …
Research Embodied: site-specific intermedia performance
Co-created with designer Autum Casey, Research Embodied is an intermedia performance designed for the Great Hall of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library… with musicians performing with amplified books and QWERTY keyboard, footsteps, and movement (in front of a
TAMU Faculty Recital with Mariana Gariazzo: Afterimages Premiere
Flutist Mariana Gariazzo premiered Afterimages for bass flute and live electronics.
Read the press release here.…
Afterimages for bass flute and electronics
Afterimages is a solo work composed for bass flutist Mariana Gariazzo… with live electronics. All sounds played by the computer are captured form the soloist live during the performance. It’s a study in counterpoint through live sampling.
PerfTech Presents: Electroacoustic Masterworks 2011
…PerfTech students got hands-on experience performing classic electroacoustic literature by spatializing the recorded works live in a 11.2 channel, 3D surround sound system using a multitouch interface in TAMU’s Fallout Theatre.
PerfTech Presents: InterMEDIA Performance 2011
PerfTech students presented intermedia performances in TAMU’s Fallout Theatre.
Professor Morris led his students in devising a performance titled Soccer Mom, which played on giallo… horror film, using everyday experiences to generate a chilling musical score and sound effects.
Collaborators
- Amy Guerin, theatre
- Anne Quackenbush, theatre
- Autum Casey, designer, theatre
- Butch Morris, composer, improviser
- Butch Rovan, composer
- Chapman Welch, composer, guitar
- Craig Hauschildt, percussion
- David Donkor, theatre
- Eric km Clark, violin, composer
- Ivan Božičević, composer, keyboards
- Jon Anderson, composer, dance
- Kathryn Woodard, piano
- Kevin Patton, composer, guitar
- Laboratorio 060, performance art
- LBJ Presidential Library & Museum
- Mariana Gariazzo, flutes
- Rosane Chamecki, dance
- Sarah Gamblin, dance
- Ulrich Maiß, cello
