Conference program 41 International Computer Music Conference

Looking Back, Looking Forward
Denton, 09/25 – 10/01
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Competition, Electroacoustic Piano International Competition, and Medea Electronique “Saxotronics” Competition and Second
Prize in the 2014 Destellos International Electroacoustic Competition. Her music has also been recognized/awarded by
the Concurso Internacional de Música Electroacústica de São Paulo, Concorso Internazionale Russolo, Pierre Schaeffer
Competition, and La Muse en Circuit. She has received grants/commissions from INA/GRM, Rèseaux, International Computer
Music Association, La Muse en Circuit, NAISA, ASCAP/SEAMUS, LSU’s Center for Computation and Technology,
Sonic Arts Research Centre, Ohio Arts Council, and National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. She has been
a special guest at the Groupe de Recherche Musicales, Rien à Voir, festival l’espace du son, June in Buffalo, and at other
locations in the US and abroad. Elainie holds a DMA in Computer Music Media where she studied with Larry Austin, Jon
Christopher Nelson, and Joe Klein. She also received an MPhil from The University of Birmingham UK, where she studied
with Jonty Harrison. Elainie’s acousmatic music is available on Entre Espaces, produced by Empreintes DIGITALes. Other
pieces appear on Centaur, MSR Classics, StudioPANaroma, La Muse en Circuit, New Adventures in Sound Art, SEAMUS,
Irritable Hedgehog and Leonardo Music Journal. elillios.com
Stephen Lilly is a DC-based composer, performer, audio engineer, and sound artist. Originally from the Pacific Northwest,
Stephen ventured east to study composition at the University of Maryland and stayed in the area to teach digital audio at the
Art Institute of Washington. In addition to his graduate degrees from UMD, he also has composition and bass performance
degrees from the University of Idaho and spent a year at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. Theatricality, language,
and abstraction are themes that continually resurface in his creative work, the majority of which is scored for chamber
ensembles, incorporating signal processing and computer generated sounds. Stephen has written works for CoMA (Contemporary
Music for All) Britsol, the DMC (Devil May Care) Duo, pianist Hayk Arsenyan, saxophonist Steven Leffue, and
soprano Stacey Mastrian and has worked closely with a collective of composer-performers he helped found, the Bay Players
Experimental Music Collective. His writings on contemporary experimental music have been published in Organised
Sound, Performance Research, Perspectives of New Music, and Computer Music Journal. Recordings he has engineered
have been released on Navona and Albany Records. For more information please visit stephenlilly.net
Tony Lim creates tweaked out interactive modules intended to be used for the people, by the people. Byung Han(Tony) Lim
is a multimedia artist and creative technologist living in Brooklyn, NY. A recent graduate from NYU Tisch’s ITP program, Tony
spends his time both working on independent creative projects as well as interactive designs/programmings for companies
like Blue man group, MKG and Starz.
A native of Taiwan, Kuei-Fan Lin received her Master of Musical Arts in Composition and Theory from National Taipei University
of Education (2008), where she studied with Yu-Chung Tseng. She has recently completed her doctoral degree in
composition at the University of Arizona in August, 2014, under the tutelage of Craig Walsh. She has received numerous
prizes, among them: Second Prize for the 8th MUSICACOUSTICA (2011), Third Prize for the 6th Taiwan Computer Music
Competition (2010), Third Prize and Mention Award for the 4th MUSICACOUSTICA (2007), and Mention Award for National
On-line Arts Creativity Composition (2007). Her pieces have also been selected from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music
in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference (2015, 2014, 2012), the International Computer Music Conference
(ICMC) (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (2014, 2013), , the 6th International Competition
of Electroacoustic Composition and Visual-musicthe of Foundation Destellos (2013), Electronic Music Midwest
(EMM) (2012), and the 3rd Shanghai Conservatory of Music International Electronic Music Week (2011). Her pieces were
the finalists of the 8th &10th International Composition Competition “Città di Udine”, and have been selected to be included
in the CD of the competition dedicated to electro-acoustic compositions (8th &10th Editions).
Cort Lippe studied composition and computer music with Larry Austin; followed composition seminars with various composers
including Boulez, Donatoni, K. Huber, Messiaen, Penderecki, Stockhausen, and Xenakis; spent three years at the
Institute of Sonology working with G.M. Koenig and Paul Berg, three years at Xenakis’ studio CEMAMu; and nine years at
working at IRCAM. His compositions have received numerous international prizes, been performed at major festivals worldwide,
and are recorded on more than 30 CDs. His research includes more than 35 peer-reviewed publications on interactive
music, granular sampling, score following, spectral processing, FFT-based spatial distribution/delay, acoustic instrument
parameter mapping, and instrument design. He has been a visiting professor at universities/conservatories in Japan, Denmark,
Austria, Greece, The Netherlands, the U.K., etc. Since 1994 he has taught in the Department of Music of the University
at Buffalo, where he is an associate professor of composition and director of the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios.
An active composer and percussionist, Patrick Long is a graduate of Syracuse University (B.M Composition/Percussion)
and the Eastman School of Music (M.M. and D.M.A in composition). He has completed over 80 premiered works for a wide
variety of performing forces, including soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestras, choirs, bands and for fixed media. He is
most widely recognized for his percussion music and for his works that combine live performers with interactive electronics
and video. He has taught on the faculties of Eastman and Syracuse, and is currently an associate professor at Susquehanna
University in Pennsylvania, where he teaches composition, theory and music technology.
Stephen Lucas is a composer, intermedia artist, and current University of North Texas doctoral candidate at the Center
for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI). He is best known for combining starkly cartoonish and abstract elements
in computer generated audio/video works; he also writes works involving live instrumentalists and interactive electronics.
His compositions have been performed throughout the United States but he strives to embrace online audiences. His other
major interests include horticulture, cybernetics, and metaphysics.