Jean-Francois Charles

In April, I announced the concert where I performed In Transition, for Bb clarinet & live electronics , a composition by Joseph Norman. Well, the recording is now on soundcloud ! Composer Joseph Norman took part to the interpretation workshop on electro-acoustic music at Ircam in June 2017 .

We just started a new course at the University of Iowa School of Music : MUS:3285 New Musical Instruments: from Design to Performance . The School of Engineering's Electronics Shop laser cut the boxes, made by after vorplus's axoloti enclosure plans . I like the personalized engraving: Here is an excerpt of the syllabus: Registrar's description Acoustic principles of selected traditional instruments (e.g., winds, strings, percussion) as well as principles of electroacoustic sound production (e.g., analog synthesizers, microphones, transducers); students work in teams to build, test, and improve their own musical instrument and experiment with its playing modes; projects may include inharmonic variations upon classical instruments, musical bots, guitar or voice-processing pedals, transducer-driven DIY Gamelans, and more; for composers, performers, engineers, and sound enthusiasts who want to design, build, and/or perform with new musical instruments. Objectives and Go...

I composed Crystals , for reed trio & live electronics, for Courtney Miller , Jorge Montilla and Benjamin Coelho . Their wonderful reed trio is premièring this work today, June 24th, at Lawrence University , during the International Double Reed Society Conference 2017.

I composed Guitar School for guitarist Steve Grismore , a take-no-prisoners improviser, who immediately accepted my invitation to perform with the Laptop Orchestra at the University of Iowa. This work is my first contribution to the guitar ensemble literature. Enjoy the recording of the world première, which took place on Saturday May 6th, 2017.

I'm thrilled to announce that Flutist Margaret Lancaster performs Scratch at NIME 2017, the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference . The performance takes place on Tuesday, May 16 at 8PM, at KoncertKirken Blågårds Plads 6A, 2200 København N. "..... Touched....." Concert Program Milica Paranosic : Lady M Jean-Francois Charles: Scratch Rikard Lindell : Critical Digitalism Robert Pritchard : The Memory of Your Touch Chris Chafe : A Day in the Sun Scratch Program Notes for melodic instrument & live electronics Jean-François Charles, 2016-2017 Homage to Karlheinz Stockhausen & Grandmaster Flash This composition is inspired by Karlheinz Stockhausen’s work Solo, for melodic instrument and tape delay, and by Grandmaster Flash’s innovative techniques, which helped transform the turntable into a musical instrument. In Vinko Globokar’s 1969 recording of Solo, Stockhausen scratched, braked, and cut sounds on tape. A few years later, Flash modified h...

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 .