By Dustin Ragland  In early electronic music, particularly those works based on environmental sounds (what we might call field recordings, however spliced and arranged they might have been), we hear a world of sound objects that are irregular and fragmented. This reflection … [Read more...]
Music Beyond Airports: Appraising Ambient Music
Music Beyond Airports: Appraising Ambient Music  Edited by Monty Adkins and Simon Cummings Book Review by Scott Miller A quick search for music identified as “ambient” in your favorite streaming music service will result in a long and diverse collection of works, and … [Read more...]
SEAMUS President Ted Coffey’s Remarks at 2019 Awards BanquetÂ
After summarizing the work on diversity and inclusion, led by Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, SEAMUS President Ted Coffey presented the following remarks at the SEAMUS 2019 Awards Banquet: I want to move to a related topic, and by way of introduction, I’ll read a bit from the … [Read more...]
Member News
In Scott Barton’s recent release, Stylistic Alchemies, expressions that are typically treated as ends, such as a pop songs or acoustic performances of chamber works, become means to a music that is trans- (across and through), poly- (many) and meta- (beyond) genre. The modern … [Read more...]
Gordon Mumma Named 2019 SEAMUS Award Winner
The 2019 SEAMUS Award will be presented to Gordon Mumma at the SEAMUS National Conference banquet at the Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Gordon Mumma (born 30 March 1935, in Framingham, Massachusetts) studied piano and horn in Chicago and Detroit, … [Read more...]
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