[dorkbotatl-announce] reminder: tomorrow @ 7 pm, dorkbot art and technology forum

[Jason Freeman]

The next dorkbot-atl meeting is:

Wednesday, October 15th
7 pm
Couch Building, room 207, Georgia Tech

Featured Speaker: Michael Klingbeil (http://www.klingbeil.com/)

Full details and directions at:
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotatl/


Michael Klingbeil, a composer, software developer, and lecturer in the  
Department of Music at Yale University, joins us via videoconference  
to discuss his SPEAR spectral audio editing software and to show us  
its creative applications in his music. Klingbeil holds a BM from  
Oberlin Conservatory of Music (TIMARA program), a BA in Computer  
Science from Oberlin College, and an MM in composition from the  
University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. He is currently completing a  
DMA in composition at Columbia University. His principal teachers are  
Tristan Murail, Heinrich Taube, Gary Lee Nelson, P.Q. Phan and James  
Beauchamp. His works have been played in both the U.S. and Europe by  
ensembles including the Columbia Composers Ensemble, University of  
Illinois New Music Ensemble, the Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon- 
Provence, the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra,  
and the Argento Chamber Ensemble. Recent awards include a First Music  
chamber music commission from the New York Youth Symphony, finalist  
recognition from the Concorso Internazionale “Luigi Russolo,” and an  
ASCAP Morton Gould Composer Award. His work is recorded on the ICMC  
label. In addition to musical activities, he was a computer science  
research fellow at the University of Iowa, and has earned industry  
awards for computer software development. He is actively involved in  
computer music research in both the academic and commercial fields and  
has developed novel software for audio analysis and resynthesis.

The Atlanta chapter of Dorkbot, an international forum dedicated to  
art, technology, and "people doing strange things with electricity,"  
is free and open to the public. It is hosted by the Music Department  
in the College of Architecture at Georgia Tech.