Jean-Francois Charles

In Transition is composer Joseph Norman 's new piece for clarinet & live electronics. I'm honored to play the première this Sunday at 7:30 in the Concert Hall of the Voxman Music Building. I hope you can attend!

Coming up on Wednesday! LOUi, the Laptop Orchestra at the University of Iowa meets poet and artist Gozo Yoshimazu . I just met this afternoon with him, his translators, and the organizers: the project is really exciting! Theater B, Theater Building, Wednesday April 19th, 2017, 7 p.m. Nima Hamidi, setar & live electronics Joseph Norman, electric guitar & live electronics Kris Peysen, electric guitar & live electronics Jacob Simmons, guitar & live electronics Carlos Toro-Tobon, Buchla analog Synthesizer & live electronics Special guest: Patricia Hartland, electric bass & more I hope to see you there! Update April 18: see the article in the Daily Iowan .

Scratch, with bassoonist Benjamin Coelho . Friday's performance at the Java House: And here is the recording of the première, with a prelude for clarinet & bassoon, each with embedded electronic processing. This is the video of the complete Presidential Lecture, which starts with the musical part (10 minutes):

The LOUi musicians are thrilled to perform tomorrow during the University of Iowa Computing Conference ! We are going to play with special guest Ryan Wedoff, who is not only the President of the UI ACM Student Chapter , but also a great jazz trumpet player. For the occasion, we came up with a very special program, including a brand new version of Duke Ellington's In a Sentimental Mood , for trumpet, jazz guitar, acoustic guitar, synthesizer, alto saxophone, and four computers:

I had the pleasure of meeting excellent musicians at the University of Iowa School of Music . Among them is bassoonist Benjamin Coelho , with whom we just performed together on Sunday, February 19th: we were invited to introduce the University of Iowa's 34th Presidential Lecture , given by Professor Gregory Carmichael. We performed a new piece: Scratch , for melodic instrument and live electronics, an homage to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Grandmaster Flash . I like a lot working with Ben: not only for the music, but also for his sense of humour! I hope you can make it to our next performance: Friday, February 24th: I Hear IC, Java House, Iowa City, event starts at 7:30 p.m.

I'm thrilled to take part in July to the Composit Music Festival & Summer Course 2017 . The new Composit Live Electronics Ensemble, CLEE, will get started this year. Following Composit 2016 's improvisation sessions with instruments, laptops, and analog electronics, we will include regular ensemble workshops in the July 2017 schedule. The students will play in the ensemble, mixing acoustic & electronic music. The ensemble will work on improvisation and on compositions by the group members. Of course, there will be a public performance in beautiful Rieti! Apply to the composition program to get your piece performed by great new music specialists, and to work closely with composers Pierluigi Billone and Davide Ianni . Or apply to the Sound Augmented program, get live electronics and advanced Max lessons, discover the axoloti music making platform, take part to CLEE, maybe work on an installation project, and get feedback from artist and composer Peter Ablinger . Don...

This Friday,January 27th, I'll be presenting the movie at the invitation of the University of Iowa's Department of Cinematic Arts and Film Studies Colloquium. After a short introduction (including words from other members of the team), we will screen the film, and have time for Questions & Answers. I hope to see you there: it's at 3:30 p.m. in E105, Adler Journalism and Mass Communication Building. More information: Eleventh Year's movie trailer