Jean-Francois Charles

September 8: theory & musicology colloquium, University of Iowa. Thank you colleagues, and Sarah Suhadolnik for the pictures! September 11: University of Nebraska, Omaha. Thank you music technologist Seth Shafer ! September 12: Iowa State University, Ames. Thank you astromusicologist Ritwik Banerji ! September 15: Impromptu Fest, High Concept Labs, Chicago. Thank you pianist Marianne Parker , composer Ben Zucker , cellist Alyson Berger , photographer Andy Yau for the pictures, and everyone at New Music Chicago! September 22: Stanley Museum of Art , University of Iowa. Thank you curator of learning & engagement Kimberly Datchuk, and everyone at the Stanley - we love this museum! We hope to see you today at the Stanley, 6:30-8pm!

The tubax is a contrabass saxophone with a 1999 design by Benedikt Eppelsheim . During his doctoral studies at the University of Iowa - and under the guidance of virtuoso saxophonist Kenneth Tse - saxophonist Yo-yo Su developed strong skills on the tubax. He commissioned new music and dedicated a recording project to new music for tubax. I was glad that we performed and recorded a new version of my composition Petrified , for tubax & live electronics. Before the recording, we performed the piece during our fall Laptop Orchestra Concert and during Yo-yo's doctoral recital: More videos featuring Yo-yo Su .

From the Jamshid Jam duet archives: an excerpt from our Englert Theatre 2021 show . Studio album: jamshidjam.com

In April 2022, virtuoso Marco Fusi gave a wonderful violin and viola d'amore recital at the University of Iowa. The piece I wrote for him is titled Voltaic . As mentioned in the score , Voltaic may be played as a solo for viola d'amore, or with live electronics accompaniment.

One of the interesting concerts we organized this season in the Voxman Music Building was the Composers' Workshop on December 6, 2022 . For this concert, we set-up a system of 14 speakers in the Voxman Concert Hall. Composer Ziang Han had written a new piece for organ and live electronics. I helped him mixing it in Atmos to make the spatialization work in the beautiful space. The program also included Flo Menezes 's recent spatialized composition Perpetui decoris structura . Flo is an incredible person and composer, I hope we can invite him in Iowa at some point! I really enjoyed hearing the organ with our ad hoc orchestra of loudspeakers. To know more about the impressive Klais organ, I let the passionate Professor of Organ Gregory Hand show you inside:

Moxsonic Festival , Warrensburg, MO, March 18: TURN UP Festival , Tucson, AZ, March 25 SEAMUS Festival & Conference , New York City, DiMenna Center for Classical Music , April 7: Jamshid Jam: Ramin Roshandel (setār) & Jean-François Charles (live electronics)

The Jamshid Jam duet features Ramin Roshandel on setār and Jean-François Charles on live electronics. Here is an excerpt of our Iowa City October 2022 concert .

In the fall, we had the great pleasure of welcoming in Iowa artist & technologist Philippe Ollivier . During the final Loopers & Composers concert , as a prelude to this solo show, he performed a piece with the graduate students taking the course Interactive Music . All of the students used the advanced looper Logelloop . Here more about Philippe's 2022 adventure in the USA on his website .