2010's News
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2019​​​
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12/27 - How Things are Made @ Pittsburgh, PA (featured/music played on Brian Riordan's podcast/experimental music project "How Things are Made")
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12/12 - Spectropol Records @ Bellingham, WA (composition "Zinnia Riplet" in 32-TET is featured on the regular microtonal release "Possible Worlds Volume 4")
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09/07 - Private showing @ Ball State University (performance of Ben Fuhrman's "Promethean Elegies" 23-TET)
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08/10 - Sevish steps down from co-hosting Now and Xen, and Jacob Barton takes his place.
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08/04 - UnTwelve 2019 @ Gesundheit! Institute, WV. Six of my pieces were recorded, and I also performed in several pieces and cover songs. The UnTwelve playlist on YouTube is here. Tunings in which I performed/recorded include - 9edo, 15edo, 16edo, 22edo, 31edo, 13-limit JI, and Bohlen-Pierce. Scheduled activities include Blackwood Analysis lectures, Zones of Lasting Novelty, Shot Fades the Sum Of, Unintelligible Hierarch, Beaten Path, Atlantic Opalescence, Lost & Found Things, and a Now and Xen episode.
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04/30 - Ives Hall @ Lewis University (performance of "Reception for Phone Ensemble" by Lewis Music Tech ensemble)
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04/22 - Sursa @ Ball State University (Premiere of "Ball State Centennial Suite" by BSU New Music Ensemble)
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04/18 - EM|4 multi-speaker concert (18.4) @ Ball State University (Performance of "Texting About Broccoli")
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04/04 - "Six Macrotonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media" (master's thesis album) is re-released!
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02/06 - "Xenharmonic Chocolate" (family christmas album) is released!
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​01/29 - EM|3 @ Ball State University (Performance of "Twofold Abiogenesis" in 53-TET with Max/MSP)
2018​​​
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11/25 - Now and Xen podcast (co-hosted initially with Sevish) releases its first episode.
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11/03 - The Lethe Lounge @ New York City ("Where Were You During the Apocalypse" covered by udderbot virtuoso Jacob Barton in 17-TET)
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10/18 - Student Composers' Forum @ Ball State University (performance: "Tiptoes in Quicksand" 14-TET)
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10/07 - SCII Cluster Concert Hymn Fest @ Broadripple United Methodist Church (performances: featured pianist and hymn improvisation)
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09/28 - SCI Student National Conference 2018 @ Indiana University (Performance of "Piano Sonata No. 1" on piano)
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08/12 - Thirsty Ear 2018 @ Access Contemporary School of Music (Performed "Curiosity Finds a Frown," "Warning about the Pond Cycle," and Aaron Kister Johnson's "Alleluia" and "Si, Siluas" (17, 19, 23-TET))
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07/21 - I graduate from Ball State University with an MM in Music Composition. My master's thesis was analysis of three of Easley Blackwood's Microtonal Etudes (13, 15, and 23), as well as the creation of a companion album, "Six Macrotonal Etudes."
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05/18 - Microtonal Adventures Festival (MAF) 2018 @ Western Washington University (performances of "Curiosity Finds a Frown," "Fiat Circadia," "Emancipate Pitch," and Elaine Walker songs (23, 10, 22-TET), lecture on "All-Scalar Set Theory")
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04/15 - Xenharmonic New Music Showcase (XNMS) 2018 @ Ball State University (self-organized optional concert I created, performances and lectures from myself and others; Neil Haverstick, Ian Wiese, Chris Vaisvil, M.O. Abbott. Performances here, program here, poster/article here.)
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03/29 - Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) 2018 @ University of Oregon in Eugene (performance of 21-TET "Iridescent Wenge Fugue")
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03/17 - Ball State University New Music Festival (performance "In the Week Midwinter" piano)
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​02/08 - Electroacoustic Barn Dance 2018 @ Jacksonville University (performance of 21-TET "Iridescent Wenge Fugue")
2017​​​
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12/06 - Wind Ensemble @ Ball State University ("Alternative Idolizations of Mammon")
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11/01 - New Music Ensemble @ Ball State University ("Meditation on the Amida Buddha")
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11/06 - EM|2 @ Ball State University (performance "Subconscious Train Matter" in 7L 3s dynamic tonality)
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10/01 - Village Green Records (VGR) @ Muncie, IN (performances - 13-limit JI, 11, 17, 19, 20, 22, 23-TET)
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06/26 - Mathematics and Computation in Music (MCM) 2017 @ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Music featured with Kevin Hobby, William A. Sethares and Zhenyu Zhang for work on hyperpiano "Gold-Teased Peppermint")
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06/18 - UnTwelve interview
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06/07 - Charlotte New Music Festival (CNMF) 2017 @ University of North Carolina (performance "Exponentially More Lost and Forgetful," lecture "Xenharmonic Q & A," composition)
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04/06 - Student Composers' Forum @ Ball State University (Performance: "Death Giving Monolith" voice and dulcimer)
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02/06 - International Contemporary Ensemble ("Quintet in Quarter Tones")
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02/01 - Composition Seminar @ Ball State University (Lecture: "Meanings and ideas of the word xenharmonic")
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​01/27 - SCI Region IV @ University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Performance: Daniel Sitler's "Catharsis" on piano)
2016​​
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12/01 - Ball State XMA (Xenharmonic Music Alliance) launched as a campus organization. (Article)
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11/19 - SCI National Conference 2016 @ Ball State University (Lecture: "All-Scalar Set Theory")
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11/03 - Student Composers' Forum @ Ball State University (Performance: "Piano Sonata No. 1")
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10/13 - Electronic Music Midwest (EMM) 2016 @ Lewis University (Performance: "Sky at Witching Hour")
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09/28 - Composition Seminar @ Ball State University (Lecture: "The Language of Just Intonation")
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08/26 - UnTwelve 2016 @ Circle Pines in Michigan (lectures / performances)
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05/07 - I graduate from Ball State University with a BS in Music Media Production.
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04/29 - Sursa Hall @ Ball State University (Capstone Lecture: "Electronics, Media based Composition, and Opportunity")
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04/21 - Honors College Expo @ Ball State University (Lecture on thesis: "All-Scalar Set Theory")
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04/04 - Microtonal Music Organization @ Kennedy Library in Muncie (Lecture: "What does music sound like without 12 notes?")
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03/01 - Sursa Hall @ Ball State University (Senior Composition Recital performances - 7-limit JI, 9, 12, 19, 22-TET)
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​01/13 - Composition Seminar @ Ball State University (Lecture: "Theory Behind 'A Middle Path")
2015​
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08/02 - Ball State University "Development" film music (2016 National Audience Awards, 3rd place)
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07/01 - First release of "Project Hawkthorne" from the TV show Community (video game chiptune soundtrack I contributed towards)
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04/08 - Composition Seminar @ Ball State University (Lecture: "N-Tone Tuning Systems and Uses")
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04/02 - Ball State University "Level Three" film music
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03/24 - Student Symposium @ Ball State University (Poster and fair: "A New Scalar Set Theory")
2014​
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10/27 - Ball State University "Door Jostler" music/acting (1st place at 2014 Frog Baby Film Festival)
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04/04 - Camera director for Ball State's production of Massenet's opera "Werther"
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02/02 - Ball State University "Through the Eyehole" music (2nd place at 2015 Frog Baby Film Festival)