Brian Belet’s composition Loose Canon, for any three instruments and Kyma (2017), was premiered by the SPLICE Ensemble (Sam Wells, trumpet; Keith Kirchoff, piano, & Adam Vidiksis, percussion) at the 2018 SPLICE Festival on January 27, 2018, hosted by Western Michigan … [Read more...]

I first met Scott Miller at SEAMUS 2013, hosted by McNally Smith College in the Minnesota Twin Cities area, not far from Scott’s home in St. Cloud. I had been corresponding with him via email about the new “Electro-Acoustic Miniatures: Re-Caged” I had helped curate and judge, and … [Read more...]

“From my perspective, SPLICE Institute is about building and maintaining a community of creative individuals who all value the use of technology in music-making, whether it be performing, composing, producing, research, etc. We focus specifically on composing and performing, but … [Read more...]

Fall 2017 Based on recent work in creating resonating sound objects, Beth Bradfish recently won a six-month Field/Work residency with the Chicago Artists Coalition. A sample of Exhale, a sonic bed, has been uploaded to the SEAMUS members new … [Read more...]

We have been playing John Cage’s “Variations III” since well before Lou Cohen’s death in 2013. Lou studied with Cage and would organize yearly performances of this work by musicians from the Boston experimental music community. At the 2017 “New Music Gathering” in Bowling Green … [Read more...]