The 2006 NCCM Festival Page is located here.
A review of the 2004 Festival by John Lambert of the Classical Voice of North Carolina is located here.
March 15-16, 2004
North Carolina Computer Music Festival
"Computer Music and Text"
Rodney Waschka II, Director
Guest Composers:
Benjamin
Broening
Brad Garton
Stan Link
The Arts Now Series, Arts Studies Program and Music Department at North Carolina State University are pleased to present the second North Carolina Computer Music Festival. The festival will take place on the campus of North Carolina State University and will feature concerts of computer music, both with and without human performers, a poetry reading and a discussion session with the composers on the topic of composing with text. Tickets for the concerts are available through Ticket Central. The Reading and Talks are free.
Stan Link: Groundswell
Beth Griffith, soprano; Rodney Waschka, speaker;
recorded computer music
on three poems by Mark Jarman
Brad Garton: Fog
Brad Garton, voice and computer
Benjamin Broening: (after)
1. Night's Black Bird (after Dowland)
2. Beata Viscera (after Byrd)
recorded computer music
Brad Garton: Good News
Beth Griffith, soprano; computer music
Text from and inspired by
Good News From Outer Space
by John Kessel
World Premiere
commissioned by the Arts Now Series, NC State
Brad Garton: Atmen
recorded computer music
Benjamin Broening: Summer is Late
poem by Stanley Kunitz; Beth Griffith, soprano; computer music
World Premiere
commissioned by the Arts Now Series, NC State
Rodney Waschka II: A Short Letter from a Small Place
Rodney Waschka, performer; recorded computer music
Text: Mike Gyra
John Balaban: reads his poem Hissarlik
Stan Link: Hissarlik
recorded computer music
inspired by the John Balaban poem
World Premiere
commissioned by the Arts Now Series, NC State
Benjamin Broening: Arioso/Doubles
Christopher Grymes, clarinet; computer music
Brad Garton: My Music Book
Brad Garton, voice and computer
Benjamin Broening: Nocturne/Doubles
Benjamin Broening, piano; computer music
Rodney Waschka II: Sappho's Breath
Beth Griffith, soprano; computer music
March 16, 2004
Blue Room, 4th Floor, Student Center
Free Admission
11:30am - 12:30pm
Mark Jarman, poet,
reads from his works
CANCELLED
2:30 pm-4:00pm Blue Room
Benjamin Broening, Brad Garton, and Stan
Link
discuss their works heard on the festival and talk
about
composing with texts.