Wendy Carlos receives 18th Annual SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award.

SEAMUS wishes to congratulate Wendy Carlos as the recipient of the 18th Annual Seamus Lifetime Achievement Award on April 15th. 2005 full story

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SEAMUS member Anna Rubin's music has been described as visionary, lyrical and expansive. She draws from the melodic structures of Jewish liturgy, the tonal explorations of experimental music and the technological innovations of recent computer music. Click on the CD cover image above for more info

SEAMUS 2006 National Conference to be held at the University of Oregon

SEAMUS, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, is pleased to announce that the 2006 SEAMUS National Conference will be held at the University of Oregon, School of Music March 30 – April 1. The SEAMUS 2006 conference will explore the theme Electro-Acoustic Music: Arena for Action and Performance.

SEAMUS 2006 invites submissions that explore the conference theme of action, physicality and performance as well as other types of electro-acoustic music with and without performers, works with video, and soundscape compositions. We will also be on the look out for exceptional "End of the World" Wacko pieces that we may be able to present appropriately. Performing resources will be drawn from the University of Oregon School of Music and the local community. Composers are also welcome to provide their own performers. More information about available performers will be developed over time and can be found on the SEAMUS 2006 website that will be available on May 1. The deadline for submissions will be Friday, October 14, 2005 (received). For more information, contact the conference host, Jeffrey Stolet, here

I am pleased to announce that the following people have been elected to two year terms on the SEAMUS Board of Directors:

Paul Rudy • Vice President for Programs
Elizabeth Hoffman • Secretary
Ivica Ico Bukvic • Treasurer

Please join me in congratulating them, and in thanking all the candidates for volunteering their services to SEAMUS. I would also like to thank our outgoing secretary, Elizabeth Hinkle, for implementing the online voting system we used for the first time this year. There were 113 members who cast votes in this election, which is significantly better than the turnout last year, and I believe the online voting system was an important factor in the improved turnout. The board is currently considering posting the final vote totals in the members area of the SEAMUS web site, but in the mean time, I will make them available to individual members upon request.

Russell Pinkston, President
SEAMUS

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SEAMUS would like to gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Genelec and Sweetwater Music Technology for sponsoring the 2005 SEAMUS National Conference:

From Robert A. Moog:

It's an honor and a privilege to pay homage to Wendy Carlos, and to celebrate her appointment of the 2005 SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award.

It was my good fortune to meet Wendy some four decades ago, when she was a student of Vladimir Ussachevsky at the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center. Over the years as her areas of expertise broadened and her place of honor at the forefront of synthesis and electronic music production became
widely acknowledged, she always set the highest standards, - both musical and technical, - through her keen esthetic sense and meticulous attention to detail.

Wendy always seemed to be the first to grasp the musical potential of new electronic music gear and, at the same time, to accept responsibility for developing the discipline necessary to use the new instruments to produce music of the highest quality. The unprecedented popularity of Switched-on Bach, which Wendy released at a time of great ferment in our popular musical culture, was at once strikingly innovative and of breathtakingly high musical quality. I remember the occasion on which Switched-on Bach was first played in public. It was at a technical session of the Audio Engineering Society in the fall of 1968, just a few weeks before the record went on sale. The entire roomful of audio engineering professionals gave Wendy an emotional and enthusiastic standing ovation. And a short time after that, Switched-on Bach was on its way to becoming one of the best-selling classical albums of all time.

With each succeeding release, Wendy continued to scale new heights of technical sophistication, creativity, and musical excellence. As tape has given way to hard disk recording and digital synthesis has arrived on the music technology scene, Wendy has continued to develop techniques, set standards, and produce recorded music that is a joy and an inspiration to countless thousands of listeners around the world.

- Bob Moog

Every year, the Board of Directors selects the recipient of the SEAMUS Award, in recognition of lifetime achievement and contribution to the art and craft of electro-acoustic music. The award is presented at the SEAMUS National Conference.

The 17 previous award winners are listed below. Click on the recipient names for a bio:

Eva Kendrick, a Massachusetts native, is a composer of chamber, vocal, theatrical and film music. In 2004, she composed a soundtrack for the short, independent film Realizing Glen, which was directed by Barbara Seidl won a National Film Competition Award.

An electroacoustic piece for voice and tape by Kendrick will premiere at the Longy Composers Concert at May 3rd at Pickman Hall in Cambridge, MA. Her chamber opera Emily, about the Amherst poetess Emily Dickinson, was performed in 2004 at the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow House in Cambridge as part of their annual free concert series. Emily has also been performed at the Pasadena Balcony Theatre, the Wilshire EBELL of Los Angeles and the Music Mansion in Providence, RI.

Kendrick is a member of ASCAP and the American Composers Forum, which awarded her a Subito grant for a staged production of her musical Le Bistro Café, which premiered in North Hollywood, California in 2003. Songs from the musical were heard last year at Boston's Birth of a Musical Festival and the Summer Shorts Festival.

Kendrick’s art songs and chamber music have been heard at many venues including the Zeitgeist Gallery, Firehouse 13 Gallery, Brown University’s Manning Chapel, Pickman Hall, San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater’s Summer Training Congress, First Night Providence!, and on the Boston radio station WRBB. She has arranged and written choral music for the New Century Voices (Boston, MA), the Rhode Island College Touring Ensemble (Providence, RI), St. Mel Singers (Northridge, CA), and the Westwood Singers (Westwood, MA).

Kendrick is also a professional vocalist. In addition to performing the title role in her chamber opera, "Emily," she has performed with the Ocean State Light Opera (now Opera Providence) and at numerous venues including the Redlands Bowl Music Festival (Redlands, CA), the Tabernacle (Martha's Vineyard, MA), the Newport Maritime Arts Festival (Newport, RI). She has won several awards including first, second and third prizes in NATS (National Association of Teachers of Singing) Competitions in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. As a singer, Eva is especially interested in exploring how the human voice can be transformed and manipulated through electronic means. Her piece "Solitaire" used the sound sources of her voice and a deck of cards being shuffled. She is also using electronic elements in her score for "The Vigil," a short film by Mikhael Antone. At the Longy School of Music, she studies computer music with Jeremy VanBuskirk

She is writing a song cycle based on the poems of the poet Kathleen Spivack, which will premiere in Summer 2005. She is currently studying with John Howell Morrison at the Longy School of Music towards a Masters of Music Degree in Com

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Davidovsky's Synchronisms No. 11 and 12 to be premiered at SEAMUS 2006

I'm very pleased to announce that, as part of our celebration of the 20th anniversary of the founding of SEAMUS, the Society for ELectro-Acoustic Music in the United States has to joined a consortium of institutions that are commissioning the renowned composer Mario Davidovsky to write two new electroacoustic works in honor of his 70th birthday. SEAMUS will contribute the standard fee of $2,000 required to join the consortium, but it will also serve as the umbrella organization for the commission, coordinating various aspects of the project and collecting and dispersing the funds. In return, the Davidovsky commission will be officially connected to our 20th anniversary celebration, and the world premieres of the new works will take place at our national conference. Other institutions who have joined the consortium to date are The University of Oregon, Brandeis University, Columbia University, Harvard University, University of Missouri Kansas City, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Rice University, The University of Texas at Austin, University of North Texas.

The two new pieces will be Synchronisms No. 11 and 12, respectively. Synchronisms No. 11 will be for contrabass, and written for Donald Palma. Synchronisms No. 12 will be for bass clarinet, and written for Allen Blustine. Davidovsky plans to complete the first work in time for a world premiere at the 2006 SEAMUS National Conference.

I am personally very excited about the fact that SEAMUS will be taking the lead in this important commission, which will result in the creation of two new works of historical significance. Without question, these pieces will be published, recorded, and performed numerous times. They will be reviewed in places like the New York Times; they will be in every major music library; they will be analyzed by theorists and scholars. I cannot imagine a more appropriate and significant way to officially mark the 20th anniversary of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.

Sincerely yours,

Russell Pinkston, President
SEAMUS

SEAMUS in the MIX

SEAMUS's 20th anniversary was recently recognized in the May edition of Mix Magazine. For anyone who may have missed it in print, the article is still featured on MIXonline: go here

The 13th edition in the Music From SEAMUS CD series has been released. Taken from works presented at the 2003 National Conference at ASU, this compilation includes Mark Applebaum, John Appleton, Larry Austin, Benjamin Broening, Konstantinos Karathanasis, Elainie Lillios, James Mobberley, Noel Paul and Russell Pinkston. click here to order.

The Society recently conducted a survey among its membership to determine the priorities and needs the society must address in the coming years. Top level results of that survey can be seen here

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