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2005: Geers'
one-minute
work Unspoken is part of the new CD 60x60
released on Capstone Recordings, Inc. This CD is part of the ongoing
60x60 project of new music organization Vox Novus.
Mr. Geers' works Turnstile, Hole in Pocket, and Ripples were performed at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music on April 17. March, 2004: Mr. Geers' work Twisted Pair was performed at the SEAMUS electroacoustic music festival in San Diego, California on March 26. February, 2004: January, 2004: The NODUS ensemble of Miami, Florida performed Mr. Geers' work Enkidu for violin and live electroacoustic music, featuring Saul Bitran, violin. Mr. Geers also lectured on his work at Florida International University while in Miami for this performance. Mr. Geers' work Twisted Pair has been chosen for performance at the 2004 SEAMUS electroacoustic music festival on March 26 in San Diego, California. December, 2003: Mr. Geers' piece Enkidu was performed by violinist Maja Cerar at the ThreeTwo festival, presented at the Merce Cunningham Dance Space in New York City, December 12. November, 2003: Five of Mr. Geers' multimedia works (Ripples, Soft and Sky Melting, Hole in Pocket, Demons, and Atomic Tango) were performed at the New Music/New Media festival in Moorehead, Minnesota. Mr. Geers' work Ripples was performed at the Livewire concert series in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 7. October, 2003: Enkidu, for violin and live electroacoustic music, was performed by violinist Maja Cerar, Mr. Geers, and members of the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich Strobel Stiftung at the ISCM World Music Days festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia on October 1. Enkidu, for violin and live electroacoustic music, was performed by violinist Maja Cerar, Mr. Geers, at the International Computer Music Conference in Singapore on October 4. Turnstile, for violin and computer-generated sounds, was performed by violinist Pei Ju Wang at the College Music Society annual conference on October 4th in Miami, Florida. Soft and Sky Melting, for electoacoustic music and video, was performed at the Electronic Music Midwest conference in Kansas City, Missouri on October 30. August, 2003: During the first week of August, Mr. Geers worked in residence at the Experimental studio of the Heinrich Strobel Stiftung, SWR, in Freiburg, Germany. The purpose of this residency was to prepare for the performance of his work Enkidu at the World Music Days festival in Ljubljana, Slovenia on October 1. July, 2003: Incandescence,
The debut CD of the Electric
Music Collective
(Christopher D. Bailey, Marcus Alessi Bittencourt, Fernando Gomez
Evelson, Douglas Geers, and Timothy Polashek) has just been released.
This CD includes two pieces by Douglas Geers.
June, 2003: Enkidu, a work for violin and computer, has been chosen for performance at the International Computer Music Conference 2003 in Singapore, September 29-October 4. Twisted Pair, a work for fixed media playback, has been accepted for performance at the Electric Rainbow Coalition festival at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, USA, August 23-24. Soft and Sky Melting, a work for computer music and video, has been accepted for performance at the Electronic Music Midwest festival in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, October 30-November 1. May, 2003: Turnstile, a work for violin and computer music, has been chosen for performance at the College Music Society Annual Conference in Miami, Florida, October 2-5. Memory Dust, for computer and big band, was performed by Dean Sorenson and Jazz Ensemble II in Ted Mann concert hall, Minneapolis, on May 5. April, 2003: Mr. Geers produced first annual Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art, in Minneapolis, MN, April 4-5. Performances included the premiere of Exit to City for berimbau and computer (performed by Greg Beyer), premiere of Jugular Juices for voice, guitar, and computer (co-created and performed by Mr. Geers, Alex Lubet and Tou Saiko Lee), and a performance of the music+video work Soft and Sky Melting. Memory Dust for big band and computer, was premiered in a series of four concerts by Dean Sorenson and Jazz Ensemble II as part of the festival Minnesota Jazz: Not the Same Old Song and Dance, April 3-6. Enkidu, a work for violin and live computer, has been selected for performance on the NODUS ensemble 2003-04 series in Miami, Florida. Spark for acoustic guitar and computer (co-composed and performed by Mr. Geers and Alex Lubet) was premiered at Metro State University, April 16. Mr. Geers' paper Problems and Solutions Regarding Performance of Computer Music with a Solo Acoustic Musician has been chosen for presentation at the College Music Society Annual Conference in Miami, Florida, October 4. March, 2003: Enkidu was performed by violinist Maja Cerar and Douglas Geers on March 15 at the 2003 SEAMUS National Electroacoustic Music Conference in Tempe, Arizona. Mr. Geers presented the paper "EA-7: An Environment for Electroacoustic Performance" at the 2003 SEAMUS National Electroacoustic Music Conference in Tempe, Arizona, March 15. Mr. Geers organized and moderated the panel discussion "Cross-Influences of Contemporary Electroacoustic Music with Popular Electronica" at the 2003 SEAMUS National Electroacoustic Music Conference in Tempe, Arizona, March 14. Ripples, a computer music work, was performed at the Society of Composers, Inc., Regional Conference, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, March 5. February, 2003: Enkidu, a work for violin and live computer, was performed by violinist Maja Cerar and Douglas Geers at the Biennial Symposuim on Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, USA on February 28. Mr. Geers presented the paper "EA-7: An Environment for Electroacoustic Performance" at the Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, February 27. Enkidu, a work for violin and live computer, has been selected for performance by a soloist from the Slavko Osterc Ensemble and members of the Experimental Studio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung (of Freiburg, Germany) on October 1 at the 2003 ISCM World Music Days festival of contemporary music in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Sugar Cookie, a computer music piece, was performed at the Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, as part of the MMEA conference 2003 on February 14. A concert of Mr. Geers' works is planned to happen in New York City during 2003 as part of ASCAP's Through the Walls program. Stay tuned for more details. January, 2003: Enkidu has been selected for performance on March 15 at the 2003 SEAMUS National Electroacoustic Music Conference in Tempe, Arizona. December, 2002: Computer music work Ripples scheduled for a performance at the Society of Composers, Inc. Regional Conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, March 5. Enkidu, for violin and live electroacoustic music, is scheduled for a performance March 1 at the Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology in New London, Connecticut. Maja Cerar, violin; Douglas Geers, computer. November, 2002: Atomic Tango, with video by Christine Sciulli, was performed as part of the Media CIRCUitS Festival, Milwaukee, Wisconsin on November 4. Mr. Geers performed as part a an improvising electro-acoustic ensemble in Hannelore at the Macalester College Gallery on November 14. Alex Lubet, guitar; Iris Lubet, percussion; Elliott Schwartz, electronic keyboard; Douglas Geers, computer. October, 2002: Ripples, with video by the composer, was performed as part of the Ghosts in the Wiring New Music and Art Festival in Bowling Green, Ohio, October 18. Mr. Geers' Sugar Cookie was performed as part of the Centennial Collage Concert at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, on October 12. September, 2002: Atomic Tango was performed as part of the International Computer Music Conference in Göteborg,Sweden on Septeber 25. August, 2002: Mr. Geers began work as Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Electronic Music Studios at the University of Minnesota School of Music. July, 2002: Mr. Geers successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University on July 30. June, 2002: Mr. Geers 70-minute theater-concerto Gilgamesh was premiered in three performances at the Theater an der Sihl in Zürich, Switzerland. Maja Cerar, violin; Philip Seigel, actor/puppeteer; Douglas Geers, computer; Mirjam Neidhart, director; Anne Lorenz, design. On June 14, Mr. Geers' Atomic Tango, with video by Christine Sciulli, was performed as part of the Mix.02 festival in Aarhus, Denmark. May, 2002: Mr. Geers' piece Uruk was performed on May 8 (New York University) and May 18 (Roosevelt Center). His new work for solo processed violin, Shambat, was premiered by violinist Maja Cerar at the Slipper Room in New York City on May 28. Also performed on that ocassion were excerpts from his in-progress music theater work, How I Learned to Draw a Sheep, based on text by poet Guillermo Castro.
On April 27, Mr. Geers' new work Uruk for violin and computer was premiered at Engine 27 in New York City. March,
2002: Mr. Geers' recent work Atomic
Tango was performed with video by Christine Sciulli
on March 18 as part of the North
Carolina Computer Music Festival, Raleigh, NC. Web visitors may now listen to several complete works by Douglas Geers in MP3 format: Ripples, Turnstile, Demons, Atomic Tango, and Soft and Sky Melting Atomic Tango was performed at Philosophy Hall in New York City on December 1. November, 2001: Atomic Tango was performed with video accompaniment by Christine Sciulli at Listening in the Sound Kitchen, a two-day festival of electroacoustic music at Princeton University on November 17 and 18. October, 2001: The American Composers Forum has awarded Mr. Geers a substantial commission for his work-in-progress Gilgamesh as part of their Composers Commissioning Project 2001. Innova Recordings has selected Atomic Tango for their upcoming CD, Sonic Circuits IX. The CD should be available very soon, and will be used for a series of Sonic Circuits concerts worldwide. Stay tuned for more details. September, 2001: Atomic Tango has been chosen for performance at the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, November 4-7, in Seoul, Korea. August, 2001: Seven of Geers' works were performed at the Ought-One Festival, Aug. 25-26 in Montpelier, Vermont. Please check the Ought-One website for tickets, T-shirts, and more information. July, 2001: Geers' piece Ripples was performed in Pisa, Italy at Sotto il Cielo D'Estate, with dance and live improvisation by the New York University New Music and Dance Ensemble. June, 2001: Mr. Geers was awarded a 2001 ASCAP Plu$ award, given to composers who have explored alternative venues and/or whose catalogs have a unique prestige value. May, 2001: This month Mr. Geers received a Dynamic Duos commission from Composers Collaborative to write an hour-long work for voices, guitars, cello, and electroacoustic music. The premiere is scheduled for October, 2002. Be sure to check back here for dates and location. April, 2001: Listeners can now obtain a copy of Mr. Geers' piece Turnstile on the new CD "Music from SEAMUS, Volume 10." This piece was selected from all of the pieces performed at the 2000 SEAMUS electroacoustic music festival to be one of five presented on this CD. See the SEAMUS site for details. An earlier, live recording of this piece is also available on the Columbia Computer Music Center's CD go.go.go.
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