Computer Music Concert

March 7 , 2005

A concert of computer music will be held on at 5:00 p.m. March 26 in Room 128 Music Building II at the Penn State School of Music. The concert will be the culmination of a special workshop held by visiting professor Mark Polishook, Associate Professor of Music Composition at Central Washington University. The workshop will be an introduction to the music software synthesis program SuperCollider, and will cover programming as a means of composition and as a way to support performance. Using the SuperCollider programming language, students can turn their computers into music synthesizers of their own design, generating audio from the computer or adding audio effects to sound brought in to the computer via microphone. Students participating in the workshop will be from the School of Music, the School of Visual Arts and the College of Engineering. Following an intensive two-day workshop, students will present their works in this concert. Works by Polishook and Mark Ballora, assistant professor of music technology at Penn State, will also be featured on the program. This concert is free and open to the public.

Contact: Kate Hoffman, kah39@psu.edu or 814.863.2104