Spark 2005 Preliminary Schedule
 (Last Updated 2/11/05)

Wednesday, February 16:

8:00pm: "Rhythm Science" with DJ Spooky, Coffman Theater
*$5 U of M Students/$7 General Public
Tickets may be purchased at the Coffman Memorial Union information desk, 300 Washington Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN. 55455-0110 Avenue.
Programmed Artists receive complimentary tickets.

Thursday, February 17:

9:00-11:30am: Paper Session, In Flux Auditorium, Regis Center for the Arts
1. "Sound Organization and Spatialization with John Conway's Game of Life", Michael Berkowski
2. "Rolling the jChing: A Java-Based Stochastic Compositional System", Robert Hamilton
3. "Audible-Mobiles: An Application of Eco-Systemic Programming in Kyma", Scott Miller
4. "No Clergy: Real-Time Generation and Modification of Music Notation", Kevin Baird
11:30am-1:30pm: Panel Session: "The Polarized Composer: Addressing the Conflict of Musical Upbringings of Todays Young Composers", 225 Ferguson Hall
J. Anthony Allen (University of Minnesota), Moderator
Robert Hamilton (CCMIX, Paris), Panelist
Per Bloland (Stanford University), Panelist
Margaret Schedel (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music)
3:00-4:00pm: Paper Session, Weisman Museum
1. "EtherSound: an Interactive Sound Installation", Henrik Frisk
Others TBA
4:00-5:30pm: Video works and 60x60 concert, Weisman Museum
1. 60x60: Sixty 60-second pieces by sixty composers, with video accompaniment
2. "I Went to Bed", Angela Veomett
3. "Survey", Keith Kothman
4. "Langue", Rafael Hernandez
5. "What Happened?", Ivica Bukvic
6. "Entropic", Marcel Wierckx
7:00 - 9:00pm: Experimental Performances, Coffman Union Whole
Sets by:
Abinadi Meza
base8: Chris Baker and Anne Resele
Alex Lubet, Doug Geers and Ying Zhang
Ballet Méchanique: J. Anthony Allen, Liz Draper, Jesse Peterson and Noah Keesecker
9:30pm-12:30am: Experimental Performances, Town Hall Tavern
Sets by:
_boombox_: Jamie Allen
Sounding Spirals: Ray Dybzinski
David Birchfield
Plato's Cave: David Means, Steve Goldstein, Carei Thomas
Friday, February 18:

8:00-10:00am: Paper Session, 90 Ferguson Hall
1. "Acousmatics, Sound Objects and Instruments of Music", Marcus Alessi Bittencourt
2. "Works: Short...Long...and 60x60", Robert Voisey
3. "Real-time Spectral Attenuation Based Analysis and Resynthesis", Ronald Parks
4. "L'Object Sonore Maintenant: Reflections on the Philosophical Origins of Musique Concrˇte", Brian Kane
5. "Text Sound: Interlingua, Intermedia, Electronica", George Brunner
10:30am-12:00pm: Masterclass with Philippe Manoury, Ferguson Hall, Room 90

2:00-3:30pm: Spark Cinema, Weisman Museum
1. "A Downward Spiral Turns Skyward", Christopher Penrose
2. "Elemental Vamp", Allen Strange
3. "Graveshift", Per Bloland
4. "1921>1989", Barry Schrader
5. "Underground", Tom Lopez
6. "Neptune Flyby", Samuel Pellman
7. "Laz", J. Anthony Allen
8. "New Birds and Move" Hellbender Film Projekt - Al Griffin (video) and Adam Kendall (video/music)
4:30-6:00pm: Eight-channel "Audio Immersion" concert, In Flux Auditorium, Regis Center for the Arts
1. "Trajectories", Eric Lyon
2. "Meditation", Hubert Howe
3. "Pre-composition", Mark Applebaum
4. "Species", Michael Berkowski
5. "Con Brio", Francesco Giomi
6. "Anastasis", John Mallia
7. "August Nights", McGregor Boyle
8. "Phoneme Play", Josh Clausen
8:00-9:30pm: Electroacoustic Concert, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
1. "Factura", Dennis Miller
2. "Solstice", Bonnie Miksch
           Bonnie Miksch, voice
3. "Bass X Sung", Tae Hong Park
           Tae Hong Park, bass guitar
4. "Path of Iron", Alicycn Warren
5. "Is The Same...Is Not The Same", Robert Hamilton
           Cory Kasprzyk, saxophone
6. "Purity in a Glass Darkly", Jake Sturtevant
           Abbie Betinis
            Jake Sturtevant, piano
7. "Hopper Confessions", Butch Rovan
           Ulrich Maiss, cello
8. "Gothic Tempest", Noel Zahler
9. "Shimmer", Andrew May
           Shannon Wettstein, piano
10:00pm-12:30am: Experimental Performances, Town Hall Tavern
Sets By:
Seiji Takahashi and Michi Yokota
Neil Rolnick
Gregory Taylor
Saturday, February 19:

8:00-11:00am: Paper Session, Ferguson Hall, 225
1. "Aspects of Flow: Structural Elements in Barry Truax's Riverrun", David McIntire
2. "Micromidi Converter: A Web-Based Tool for Microtonal Composition with MIDI Instruments", Christopher Bailey
3. "The 0th Sound", Ivica Ico Bukvic 4. "RTCmix: Recent Developments", John Gibson
5. "Musical Landscapes Using Satellite Data", Anonymous W. Smith
6. "Personal Effects: Weaning interactive Systems from MIDI", Robert Rowe
1:30-2:15pm: SmartMusic Demonstration, Ferguson Hall, 225
John Paulson, President of MakeMusic! Inc.,
and University of Minnesota School of Music Alumnus
11:15-12:30pm: NeXT Ens Concert, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
1. "Scintillating Fish", Gabriel Ottoson-Deal
2. "Invisible Images", Burtan Beerman
3. "Cassini Division", Margaret Schedel
4. "Secret Pulse", Zack Browning
5. "Tremor Transducer", Douglas Geers
2:30-4:00pm: Keynote Lecture by Philippe Manoury, Ferguson Hall, Room 225

4:30-6:00pm: Shiau Uen Ding Recital: Works for Piano and Electronics, Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall
1. "Narcissus", Thea Musgrave
           Elizabeth Marshall, flute
2. "Into the Maelstrom", James Mobberly
3. "Balladei", Christopher Bailey
4. "Trying to Translate", Kathrine Norman
5. "Due (Cinta)mani", Eric Chasalow
6. "Music for Piano and Computer", Corte Lippe
7. "Tombeau de Messiaen", Jonathan Harvey
8:00-9:30pm: Electroacoustic Concert, Ted Mann Concert Hall
1. "Musicometry I", Lawrence Fritts
           Esther Lamneck, clarinet
2. "Artico", Giuseppe Rapisarda
           Immanuel Davis, flute
3. "Snow", Wayne Slawson
4. "Cigar Smoke", Robert Rowe
           Esther Lamneck, clarinet
5. "Jupiter", Philippe Manoury
           Elizabeth McNutt, flute
10:00pm-1:00am: Experimental DJ Performances, Town Hall Tavern
Sets by:
Keith O'Brien
Tarik Moody
DJ Retroblast
Sunday, February 20:

11:00am-12:00pm "Coffee Concert", In Flux Auditorium, Regis Center for the Arts
1. "Atmospherics/Weather Works", Andrea Polli
2. "Incandescance", Benjamin Thigpen
3. "Detour", John Gibson
4. "Out of Breath", Paul Koonce
5. "Spin", Don Malone
6. "AcGtr", Phil Mantione
7. "My Heart Sings", Jon Welstead
8. "9.17.03", Mike McFerron
12:30pm-3pm: Symposium Fast Forward, In Flux Auditorium, Regis Center for the Arts
1. "Jonathan Harvey's Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco: A Method for Timbre Analysis and Notation", J. Anthony Allen
2. "The Voice as a Source of Gestural Control", Matthew Peters Warne
3. "Human Input: A Musical Interface to Three Dimensional Environments", John Lato
4. "Strategies for Media Choreography", Harry Smoak
5. "_boombox_- a Bluetooth Interfaced Visceral Sound Buffer Controlling Digital Musical Instrument", Jamie Allen
Others, TBA