May 3, 2024 | 6:00–10:00pm

Benson Historic District

SOUNDSPARK is a public sound art event on May 3 from 6-10pm that coincides with Benson First Friday at the Benson Creative District. Six professional artists and 14 student artists will present a variety of sound-centric installations that invite audience participation. Visitors can expect everything from guitar-controlled robot battles to musical chalkboards to a keyboard-controlled car engine and more. The six professional artists were selected as part of a juried call for works and include Travis Apel, Alex Jacobsen, Lillian Kraft, Colectivo Mictlán, Nick Spencer, and Things I Tell You. SOUNDSPARK is produced by UNO’s TAPEnsemble, Omaha Mobile Stage, BFF, and the Benson Creative District.

Apr. 22, 2024 | 3:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Lyle Kwiakowski is the Studio Coordinator for UNO Television. Hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, he boasts a rich history within the video production industry. His journey in filming, editing, and content creation spans both freelance work and significant contributions to renowned entities such as Omaha Athletics, HuskerVision, and UNO Television. With an unwavering passion for the realms of video, digital media, and public relations, Lyle positions himself as a committed lifelong learner, constantly seeking to deepen his expertise. His dedication to excellence and broad skill set make him a notable figure in the dynamic world of sports videography and content creation.

Apr. 8, 2024 | 3:00pm Concert

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Jeremy Castro Baguyos is a distinguished musician-researcher, double bassist, and Professor of Music at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, specializing in live interactive computer music. Baguyos's significant contributions to the field include establishing Nebraska's first interactive computer music ensemble, Ensemble A.M.I. (Artificial Music Initiative), and organizing the state's inaugural electronic music festival, Virtual Music Week. Pioneering interactive computer music performance on the double bass, he drew inspiration from electronic pioneers like Robert Black and Bertram Turetzky. Baguyos's groundbreaking work between 2002 and 2005 resulted in some of the earliest repertoire for double bass and interactive electronics, utilizing MSP extensions to the Max digital audio programming language. His innovative approach involved software-based synthesis, distinguishing his work from earlier hardware-based experiments. Beyond academia, Baguyos serves as the Principal Double Bassist of the Des Moines Metro Opera Summer Festival Orchestra and has performed with prestigious orchestras, including the National Symphony and the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra in Washington, DC. Frequently featured at academic conferences globally, he remains an influential figure in the evolving landscape of live interactive computer music.

Apr. 1, 2024 | 3:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

"Another Arabian Night: Alan Menken’s Sindbad at Tokyo DisneySea"

In 2001, Tokyo DisneySea opened as the first water-based Disney theme park. Central to the concept was seven “ports of call,” including the Arabian Coast which featured theming combining the worlds of Disney’s Aladdin and the world from the 1901 French version of 1001 Arabian Nights. “Sindbad’s Seven Voyages,” a musical boat dark ride, opened to mixed reviews from attendants.

The ride was refurbished and the narrative dramatically altered in 2007. Renamed to “Sindbad’s Storybook Voyage,” the new version of the ride featured a song with lyrics by Glenn Slater and music by Alan Menken. The song features striking resemblance in form to “It’s a Small World.” Likewise, Menken’s music incorporates topics signaling Arabic origins while occasionally featuring mechanical puppet performers on Arabic instruments: rebab, riq, arghul, and darbuka. Sindbad carries an oud throughout the ride’s narrative and performs near the end. However, the timbres of the song draw heavily from a Western orchestra that functions as the underpinning throughout. Near the beginning of the ride, low bowed strings supplant a puppet playing the rebab. Nevertheless, the ride and song remain popular among the primarily Asian visitors to the park with many Japanese artists virally covering the song on YouTube.

This lecture will examine the layers of colonial intersections by examining the Arabian Coast at Tokyo DisneySea, the adaptation of 1001 Arabian Nights, the American composers Menken and Slater, and the inspirations from the Sherman brothers’ “It’s a Small World” and its associated rides at DisneyLand and beyond.

Dr. Thomas Wilson is Instructor of Music Technology and Music Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition from LSU and has showcased his compositions at various conferences and festivals.

Mar. 25, 2024 | 3:00pm Artist Talk | 7:30pm Concert

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Alex Jacobsen is a composer and artist often performing with feedback, personal recordings, guitars, and synthesizers. His body of work includes performative essays, soundwalks, digital media, and multisensory installations, exploring the spatial-temporal relationship between memory, the body, and acoustic phenomena. 

Alex has performed and exhibited work throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, including ESS's Quarantine Concert Series (Chicago), The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha), Ex Nihilo Festival (Guanajuato), The Radiophrenia Art Festival (Glasgow), and Konvent Puntzero (Berga). His discography has recently been published on EAC Records and Tymbal Tapes. In recent years, Alex has contributed music to several projects, including  Movement5 for tbd dance collective, and the films These Bodies and Violent Textures of Nature and Flesh, both directed by Matthew Strasburger.

Outside his creative work, Alex has assisted in coordinating events for the music-education nonprofit Omaha Under the Radar, and teaches guitar and sound production privately.

Mar. 4, 2024 | 3:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Jodeane Brownlee is a dedicated educator and passionate advocate for journalism, committed to nurturing the development of curious minds into informed, responsible, and ethical storytellers. Her teaching philosophy revolves around creating a stimulating learning environment by integrating contemporary newsroom practices, cutting-edge technology, and critical media analysis into her curriculum. With a diverse range of teaching interests, including Introduction to Media Communication, Emerging Media, Podcasting, and more, Jodeane aims to equip students with the skills and knowledge necessary for success in the ever-evolving field of media.

In addition to her teaching role, Jodeane is actively involved in service and research within the media landscape. She played a pivotal role in the creation of UNOmahaNews Digital, a digital newsroom that mirrors a practical newsroom experience for students. Her efforts extended to securing funding for the website and ensuring its security, contributing to the increased visibility and professionalism of the students involved. Jodeane is also engaged in professional organizations such as the Broadcast Education Association, Nebraska Broadcasters Association, and Midwest Broadcast Journalism Association, where she collaborates with industry leaders and serves as a judge for awards. Her commitment to enhancing students' knowledge of broadcast sales is evident through her role as a committee member for P1 Learning. Through her contributions to media development, website creation, and community engagement, Jodeane Brownlee exemplifies a dedication to fostering excellence in journalism education.

Feb. 26, 2024 | 3:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

David Helm received his BA in Anthropology from Ithaca College in 1980.  Since the 1980’s, Helm’s art has been a vehicle for exploring technology, public forums and historical discourse. Among his many exhibits are solo shows at The Mattress Factory Museum in Pittsburgh, the Sculpture Center in New York City and the Art in the Anchorage in Brooklyn.  He has been awarded grants from the Illinois Arts Council, The Nebraska Arts Council, and Art Matters.  Additional honors include, serving as a National Endowment for the Arts panelist, an Artpark Residency and an Art and Industry Commission from the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.  In 2013, Helm was awarded the Diamond Professorship in recognition of outstanding Teaching and Creative Activity.

Feb. 19, 2024 | 3:00pm Lecture | 4:00pm Workshop

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

Dana Murray is a percussionist, producer, and director of North Omaha Music and Arts. Hailing from South Omaha, Murray's eclectic musical upbringing, influenced by gospel, R&B, and jazz, shaped his artistic identity. A Berklee College of Music graduate, Murray moved to New York where he became involved in the jazz scene. He toured the world with Wynton Marsalis and began gigging and recording with the likes of Donald Byrd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Roy Hargrove, Sherman Irby, Marc Cary and Russell Gunn.

As a producer, Murray has worked on records with a variety of local and commercial labels, including BlueNote. Most recently, he collaborated with Eric Revis on his latest album, “Sing Me Some Cry." Some other recent collaborations have included industry heavyweights Aloe Blacc, JD Allen, Caron Wheeler, Orrin Evans, Oliver Lake, Nasheet Waits as well as a host of up-and-coming artists.

Feb. 12, 2024 | 3:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Brandon Bahn is an experienced brand ambassador and music composer with a demonstrated history of working in the technology and music industry for over 15 years. He began a career as a recording engineer and session player at The Track Studio in Plano, TX. In 2023 he released tracks under the alias ‘Brandon Vendetta’ on the UK-based label, Anjunabeats, which gained over 2 million streams. He also produced, mixed, and mastered an EP for Bradford Nyght and Musicbed, a music licensing platform based in Fort Worth, TX. Brandon has a Certification in Sound Design from Dubspot and a Bachelors Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of North Texas.

Jan. 31, 2024 | 12:00pm Artist Talk | 2:00pm Workshop

Strauss Performing Arts Center Computer Lab

Chris Thomas is a composer for film, television, theme parks, and TED Speaker. ​He’s written music for several Emmy-nominated films, theatrical releases such as Haymaker and Don't Look Back, and Woman Rebel, which was shortlisted for an Academy Award. In 2020, Chris won the Hollywood Music In Media Award for his work on Imagine Symphony Live. He’s worked on film projects with Hollywood stars such as Kathy Bates, Samuel L. Jackson, Bob Odenkirk, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny Trejo, Rico Rodriguez, Luke Perry, and Zoe Bell. In television, he worked as a composer, orchestrator, and conductor for networks such as ABC, FOX, HBO and CBS.

​​In recent years, Chris composed the logo music for Sony Picture’s The Hideaway Entertainment, and the dating app Date Night, and is currently working on a new video game score. 

Chris has been in demand in the theme park industry. He has written music for the Evermore Adventure Park, Knott's Berry Farm, Queen Mary Chill, Dreamland (UK), Los Angeles Haunted Hayride, Seismique, INK: Stories on Skin (Museum of Latin American Art), LA's Magic Bus Experience, and The Void 4D virtual reality games.

Dec. 4, 2023 | Doors 6:00pm | Show 7:00pm

The Waiting Room Lounge

Dance through the decades at an electronic music experience inspired by the legendary raves of the past with UNO’s TAPEnsemble. The ensemble will curate a diverse range of genres, with a dynamic lineup of DJs and live performances spanning House to Drum and Bass and beyond.

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Nov. 27, 2023 | 3:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

Sebastien Najand is a Principal Composer for Riot Games Music (RGM) within Riot’s Entertainment division. He composes, produces and mixes music for beloved Riot IP including the world-renowned League of Legends franchise. He regularly collaborates with superstar artists and songwriters and has previously worked with Imagine Dragons, NewJeans, Madison Beer, Bea Miller, Pusha T, Mako and many more.

Sebastien composed, produced and mixed the music for four singles featured in Riot’s Emmy-winning Netflix series Arcane and all songs for Riot’s virtual K-pop band K/DA. The group’s hit single “POP/STARS” featuring Madison Beer, (G)I-DLE and Jaira Burns was certified Platinum by the RIAA in 2022. He also worked on several esports anthems for the League of Legends World Championships, including “Warriors” featuring Imagine Dragons, “Legends Never Die” featuring Against The Current, “Rise” featuring The Glitch Mob, Mako and The World Alive, and "GODS" featuring NewJeans.

Prior to joining Riot Games full-time, he served as a composer for Hollywood Scoring, where he frequently worked with Riot. He began his career at Remote Control Productions, where he worked for Hans Zimmer.

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Nov. 13, 2023 | 3:00pm Lecture | 7:30pm Concert

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Kristina Warren is a sound artist, composer, performer, and instrument builder who believes that collective listening is a precious and political act. Warren uses self-designed and received audio tools to create performances, installations, and recorded works, whose recent “ASMR drone” style uses quieter volumes and careful orchestrations to help audiences perceive their own listening.

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Nov. 6, 2023 | 3:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

Susan Rogers holds a doctorate in psychology from McGill University, where she studied music cognition and psychoacoustics under researchers Daniel Levitin and Stephen McAdams. Her research focuses on auditory memory, the perception of musical signals, and the influence of musical training on auditory development. For two decades prior to her science career, Rogers was one of the world's few women known for her work as a record producer, engineer, mixer, and audio electronics technician. Career highlights include years (1983–1988) as staff engineer for recording artist Prince and working with such diverse artists as Barenaked Ladies, David Byrne, Tricky, and Tevin Campbell. Rogers is the director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory. She is the author of This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You.

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Oct. 23, 2023 | 3:00pm Lecture | 7:30pm Concert

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Sener (Jose Trujillo) is a sound artist, art researcher, and producer originally from Silao, México and now currently residing in Nebraska. Sener’s explores post-digital art, electroacoustic music, sound art, and open-source technologies. With his custom-created electronic instruments and microcontrollers, he crafts mesmerizing performances that blend seamlessly with contemporary media.

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Sept. 11, 2023 | 3:00pm Lecture | 7:30pm Concert

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Jamshid Jam is an award-winning duo featuring Ramin Roshandel on setar and Jean-Francois Charles on live electronics. Together, they create a collision of Persian classical music and cutting-edge live sampling and re-mixing techniques.

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May 12, 2023 | 5:00 - 10:00pm

Project Project

Noisefest is a collaboration between Omaha Mobile Stage, Project Project, No Coast Noise Collective, and the University of Nebraska Omaha's TAPEnsemble, School of Music and Service Learning Academy. UNO’s TAPEnsemble is helping design, run and perform at Noisefest. TAPEnsemble is an artist-creator collective that uses all available performance instruments, technologies, and modalities to produce sometimes baffling, sometimes sublime intermedia experiences.

Apr. 24, 2023 | 7:30pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

The 70th Week is a visual music opera that depicts several events in the life of the Biblical prophet Daniel and his companions, as well as the three main prophecies that still may not have been fulfilled. The 70th week described in The Book of Daniel is one of these prophecies, and it relates to a state of constant war, sacrilege and destruction, that will finally lead to a miraculous transformation of the world in a new space of peace and justice. The piece uses several computer-generated images and sounds, as well as pre-recorded vocal lines and dance movements.

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Apr. 24, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Composer João Pedro Oliveira holds the Corwin Endowed Chair in Composition for the University of California at Santa Barbara. He studied organ performance, composition and architecture in Lisbon. He completed a PhD in Music at the University of New York at Stony Brook. His music includes opera, orchestral compositions, chamber music, electroacoustic music and experimental video. He has received over 70 international prizes and awards for his works, including three Prizes at Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition, the prestigious Magisterium Prize and Giga-Hertz Special Award, 1st Prize in Metamorphoses competition. In 2023 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His music is recorded in over 50 CDs, 11 of which are monographic. He taught at Aveiro University (Portugal) and Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil). His publications include several articles in journals and a book on 20th century music theory.

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Apr. 17, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Over the years, Chris Acker has established himself as a highly respected band leader, director and contractor. Chris proudly maintains a busy career as a professional trombonist in a variety of genres, and has played with such groups and performers as Amy Grant, Michael W. Smith, The Four Tops, The Temptations, Frankie Valli, Johnny Mathis, and many more. Chris is co-owner and audio producer at Mixing Room Studios, an audio post-production studio.

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Apr. 10, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, DMA is a soprano, improviser, composer, and organizer specializing in contemporary classical music. She is the founder of Quince Ensemble, an all-women contemporary vocal group, and Hasco Duo, an experimental improvisation and songwriting project. She is also a member of and program curator for Ensemble Dal Niente, a Chicago-based chamber orchestra that commissions and performs the music of living composers. In 2014 she founded Omaha Under the Radar, an annual four-day experimental performance festival, year-round concert series, and educational program which presented over 400 individual artists during her tenure as director.

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Apr. 3, 2023 | 7:30pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

Lloyd Buchanan is rooted in Gospel and the Blues. His connection to the Hammond organ began at a very early age in church accompanying his mother. This indoctrination gave way to formal studies at LaGrange College where he expanded his musical vocabulary going deep into jazz improvisation under the tutelage of pianist/composer, Randy Hoexter and guitarist, Trey Wright. Lloyd has been a first-call session player at the Loft Recording Studio as well as numerous other facilities throughout the southeast. His B3, piano, bass and vocal chops can be heard on hundreds of recordings. 

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Apr. 3, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Lloyd Buchanan is rooted in Gospel and the Blues. His connection to the Hammond organ began at a very early age in church accompanying his mother. This indoctrination gave way to formal studies at LaGrange College where he expanded his musical vocabulary going deep into jazz improvisation under the tutelage of pianist/composer, Randy Hoexter and guitarist, Trey Wright. Lloyd has been a first-call session player at the Loft Recording Studio as well as numerous other facilities throughout the southeast. His B3, piano, bass and vocal chops can be heard on hundreds of recordings. 

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Mar. 20, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Brad Robin is a composer, pianist/keyboardist, improvisor, computer programmer, and creator of new opera, electroacoustic multimedia works, and works for instruments and computer. Often while merging media into the world of theater, dance, and video, his music produces visceral experiences integrating musical and naturally occurring sounds and images, creating fabrics of sound, both natural and imagined, streams of water and glass, striking and scraping of objects earthen, metallic, and wooden, natural and electronic air. His music swirls, bites, and caresses, creating an immersive experience for performers and audience.

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Mar. 6, 2023 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Drew Coles is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer, serial entrepreneur, and educator. Drew serves as an applied lessons instructor, ensemble facilitator, and lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. Drew also teaches music entrepreneurship at the Manhattan School of Music, and serves as the program director for the Music Business Program at the Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam. His scholarly interests include; the construct of success as it applies to post-secondary music students, culturally responsive pedagogy in the music classroom, the use of technology in the applied studio, Jazz pedagogy, improvisation pedagogy, comprehensive musicianship coursework and curricula, and quantitative research methods in music education.

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Dec. 5, 2022 | 7:00pm | 7:30pm | 8:00pm | 8:30pm*

Strauss Performing Arts Center

*Note: Please choose one of the four walking tour start times. Check in with the desk in the lobby to get started.

TAPEnsemble is a performer-composer collective utilizing electronic and acoustic instruments to perform diverse music from the 20th-21st century that defies conventional boundaries.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Nov. 14, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

With 10 years of professional audio experience as a digital instrument designer for film composer Hans Zimmer, Raul Vega has worked on projects such as No Time To Die, Dunkirk, Wonder Woman 1984, Interstellar, and the 2022 Oscar- and Golden Globe-winning score Dune. His deep appreciation for sound and quality production led him to develop his first-ever scripted podcast series Rose Drive. After only one season out, the show received critical recognition both in the podcast space as well as two mentions by Forbes. Since then, he has gone on to produce a comedy-fiction podcast during the heat of the COVID pandemic in 2020 called Swiss and Lali Hijack HOLLYWOOD! starring Aparna Brielle and Kristin Couture, with a special cameo appearance by Emmy Award-Winning comedian Patton Oswalt.

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Oct. 31, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Romain Michon is faculty researcher at INRIA (Emeraude Team), associate professor at INSA Lyon, associate researcher at GRAME -- Centre National de Création Musicale in Lyon (France), and lecturer at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University (USA). He has been involved in the development of the Faust programming language since 2008 and he's now part of the core Faust development team at GRAME. He's currently leading (PI) the FAST project (https://fast.grame.fr) which aims at (i) facilitating the programming of FPGAs (Field-Programmable Gate Array) in the context of real-time audio signal processing and (ii) exploring the use of this type of platform for the active control of room acoustics. Romain's research interests also involve embedded systems for real-time audio processing, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME), and physical modeling of musical instruments.

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Oct. 10, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Wyndhem Ennaemba is an audio engineer and trombonist from the Metro Atlanta area. He currently lives in Omaha, NE as the Music Production Manager of University of Nebraska Omaha. He holds degrees in Music and Music Technology from Columbus State University, and Indiana University Purdue University - Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Sept. 26, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Multi-talented audio engineer, music producer, professional DJ, and sound designer Rob Ruiz has been specializing in hip-hop/dubstep/Trap/Club since 2005. Ruiz has collaborated with a variety of hip-hop artists around Omaha, worked with sports brands like Sky Streetball Syndicate, and video game developers like SkyVu Entertainment.

Sept. 19, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Dereck Higgins has been active in music since the 70’s. Higgins is known for his work as a bassist and and his diverse musical interests ranging from punk to jazz to blues to electronic to Cajun. Dereck’s current music projects include membership in the bands InDreama, Cleemann, The Jewel Beast, Paddy O’Furniture, The Pat Higgins Trio, as well as solo and guest appearances.

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Sept. 12, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Paul Turowski is a composer, performer, and Lecturer in Music for Digital Games at the University of Liverpool. He also serves as Subject Component Lead for the Game Design Studies programme. Paul's research examines intersections of game design/gameplay and musical composition/performance. This includes the employment of digital games as interactive musical scores as well as the creation of video games that afford musical authorship to the player. His creative work has been performed by ensembles such as Dither, Ekmeles, and the Ligeti Quartet; has been presented at events such as the annual conference of the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the Kyma International Sound Symposium and the conference on Technologies of Notation and Representation; and has been featured on such websites as Cycling74.com and animatednotation.com. He has also given talks on game music at events like the North American Conference on Video Game Music.

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May 2nd, 2022 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

TAPEsemble presents DIS/〇RIENT, a concert and interactive experience using immersive audio and video technologies. All works are composed and performed by members of TAPEnsemble.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Apr. 18th, 2022 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Described as “phenomenal and fearless,” Grammy nominated pianist Vicki Ray is a leading interpreter of contemporary piano music. Known for thoughtful and innovative programming which seeks to redefine the piano recital in the 21st century, Vicki’s concerts often include electronics, video, recitation and improvisation. As noted by Alan Rich, “Vicki plans programs with a knack for marvelous freeform artistry…what she draws from her piano always relates in wondrous ways to the senses.” As a founding member of Piano Spheres, an acclaimed series dedicated to exploring the less familiar realms of the solo piano repertoire, her playing has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times for “displaying that kind of musical thoroughness and technical panache that puts a composer’s thoughts directly before the listener.”

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Apr. 18th, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Described as “phenomenal and fearless,” Grammy nominated pianist Vicki Ray is a leading interpreter of contemporary piano music. Known for thoughtful and innovative programming which seeks to redefine the piano recital in the 21st century, Vicki’s concerts often include electronics, video, recitation and improvisation. As noted by Alan Rich, “Vicki plans programs with a knack for marvelous freeform artistry…what she draws from her piano always relates in wondrous ways to the senses.” As a founding member of Piano Spheres, an acclaimed series dedicated to exploring the less familiar realms of the solo piano repertoire, her playing has been hailed by the Los Angeles Times for “displaying that kind of musical thoroughness and technical panache that puts a composer’s thoughts directly before the listener.”

Martin Herman is a composer whose acoustic and electronic works have been performed throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. He is the Artistic Director of Bentstrings Productions, which supports the creation and production of new media and sound art works. He was Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Downtown Opera, which commissioned and performed new experimental short operas in Long Beach and the Czech Republic between 2000-2002. He currently directs the BCCM Laptop Ensemble, and has collaborated on sculpture/sound installations as sound designer and programmer “Arquitectura Sonora” with sculptor Mayte Alonso in 2008 and 2006. More recently he has worked as composer and music director with the theatre director, Byungkoo Ahn, on “Voyage”, a theatre piece for singers, actors, live instrumentalists and laptop ensemble that was premiered at the 2013 Spoleto Festival de Due Monde as part of LaMaMa Spoleto Open. He teaches electronic music classes in synthesis, computers and sound, musical interactivity at the Bob Cole Conservatory at California State University in Long Beach, California. 

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Apr. 4th, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

A. Wesley Chung is an American songwriter/musician based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is previously known for his indie/folk bands The Great Albatross and Boris Smile, while his most recent solo material ventures deeper into alt. country and the sounds of his native California. His debut album entitled, Neon Coast, is a meditation on the Pacific West Coast.

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Mar. 21st, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

James Connolly is a video/new media artist, educator, writer, and curator living in Chicago, IL. His work undermines the interfaces of consumer electronics and digital structures to liberate their latent audio and video materialities in videos, performances, and installations. He teaches in the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works as the Collection Manager of the Roger Brown Study Collection.

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Mar. 7th, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Lesley Flanigan is an experimental electronic musician living in New York City. Inspired by the physicality of sound, she builds her own instruments using minimal electronics, microphones and speakers. Performing these instruments alongside traditional instrumentation that often includes her own voice, she creates a kind of physical electronic music that embraces both the transparency and residue of process — sculpting sound from a palette of noise and subtle imperfections. Her work has been presented at venues and festivals internationally, including The Red Bull Music Festival at Saint John the Divine (New York), De Doelen (Rotterdam), Sonar (Barcelona), The Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park (Chicago), the Guggenheim Museum (New York), The Kitchen (New York), The Broad Museum (Los Angeles), ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn), TransitioMX (Mexico City), CMKY Festival (Boulder), the Roskilde Museum of Contemporary Art (Denmark) and KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

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Feb. 21st, 2022 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Merche Blasco is a multimedia artist and composer based in New York. She designs and builds imprecise technological assemblages that catalyze embodied forms of live electroacoustic composition and new modes of listening. Through her constructed devices, Blasco attempts to establish a more horizontal relationship with other entities, distancing herself from parameters of precision, power, and control. As an alternative form of performance, she engineers collaborative spaces with instruments that are given their own agency, in compositions where her body and the live exploration of organic materials are central elements.

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Dec. 6th, 2021 | Exhibition Open 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center

TAPEnsemble is a performer-composer collective utilizing electronic and acoustic instruments to perform diverse music from the 20th-21st century that defies conventional boundaries.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Nov. 8th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

Bryce Miller is a composer specializing in film/tv trailers and commercials.  He has worked with clients including Warner Bros, Marvel, Universal, Netflix, and Hulu, and his music and sound design can be heard in international advertising campaigns for films including The Batman, Godzilla, House of Gucci, Space Jam 2, and Respect.  With each project he pushes to explore new sounds and techniques that focus on enhancing the storytelling and creating an immersive audio/visual experience.

Oct. 4th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

A conservatory-trained classical pianist and vocalist who fell into creating electronic music shortly after a stint playing Baroque lute, Seattle composer Kaley Lane Eaton’s music is colored by this eclecticism, expressing a preoccupation with harmony, improvisation, storytelling, emotion, physical gesture, and vocal virtuosity. As a writer with particular interest in the role of classical music's relationship to feminism, education, and our larger culture, Eaton has been published by KING FM's Second Inversion ("Women, Creativity, and the Classroom" (2016) and "Reflections on Wilderness" (2017)) and Common Tone Arts ("Things I wish I had known when I thought I couldn't be a composer" (2017)). Her article "Hit the reset button: Rethinking how we teach music technology" addresses systemic problems in the field of music technology. Eaton holds a DMA in composition from the University of Washington and teaches composition, voice, theory, and music technology at Cornish College of the Arts.

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Sept. 27th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

Dan Sandin is an internationally recognized pioneer of electronic art and visualization. He is director emeritus of the Electronic Visualization Lab and a professor emeritus in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1969, Sandin developed a computer-controlled light and sound environment called Glow Flow at the Smithsonian Institution and was invited to join the art faculty at the University of Illinois the same year. By 1973, he had developed the Sandin Image Processor, a highly programmable analog computer for processing video images in real time. He then worked with DeFanti to combine the Image Processor with real-time computer graphics and performed visual concerts, the Electronic Visualization Events, with synthesized musical accompaniment. In 1991, Sandin and DeFanti conceived and developed, in collaboration with graduate students, the CAVE virtual reality (VR) theater.

In recent years, Sandin has been concentrating on the development of auto stereo VR displays (i.e., free viewing, no glasses), and on the creation of network-based tele-collaborative VR art works that involve video camera image materials, rich human interaction and mathematical systems.

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Sept. 20th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

J. Anthony Allen is a creator of things. Sometimes they’re related to music, but not always. He uses his background as a composer to inform whatever he sets his mind to creating, whether it’s music for an orchestra, a business, an app, a new electronic instrument, or ideas for his next composition. He founded Slam Academy in 2011 in Minneapolis because he wanted to make electronic music education accessible and affordable. To a similar end, he wrote a book called Music Theory for Electronic Music Producers. In his compositions, he draws on developments in diverse musical communities. He holds degrees from University of Minnesota (PhD, Music Composition with a minor in Visual Arts), Peabody Conservatory (MM, Composition and MM Electronic Music), and Grand Valley State University (BA, Music). He’s also studied at the Centre de Création of Music Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris, France.

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Sept. 13th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Concert Hall

Jeffrey Stolet is an American composer and virtuoso performer of electroacoustic and computer music. Stolet is a professor of music and director of Music Technology at the University of Oregon. He received a Ph.D. in Music at the University of Texas at Austin. Stolet’s recent work has centered on performance environments in which he uses a variety of wands, sensing devices, game controllers, and other magical things to control the sonic and videographic domains.

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Apr. 28th, 2021 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Virtual Event

The Technology-Assisted Performance Ensemble (TAPEnsemble) at the University of Nebraska at Omaha invite you to attend our virtual exhibition, AFTER TOUCH, on Wednesday, April 28 at 7:30pm CDT. AFTER TOUCH is a concert of original works by the members of TAPEnsemble composed at a social distance during the Spring 2021 semester. The show's title is both a reference to the digital hardware specification used in some of the compositions and a yearning for musical connection and personal expression during these isolating times. The work reflects the ensemble's exploration of free improvisation, imaginative interpretation, experimental collaboration, audio-visual representation, and technical ingenuity. All media for the concert was written, performed, captured, and edited by the student members of the ensemble.

You can watch the live stream here: http://bit.ly/tape-aftertouch

Apr. 12th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

George Gomez-Wheeler is a composer and performer of acoustic and electronic music. His work combines diverse instruments and genres, musical interactivity between performer and computer, concepts of spatialization, and video processing. His current research interests continue to focus on a theoretical approach to electroacoustic music composition as well as the creation and mapping of new electronic musical instruments that attempt to capture human expression.

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Mar. 29th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

 Sarah Belle Reid is a performer-composer who plays trumpet, modular synthesizer, and an ever-growing collection of handcrafted electronic instruments. Her unique musical voice explores the intersections between contemporary classical music, experimental and interactive electronics, visual arts, noise music, and improvisation. Often praised for her ability to transport audience members through vivid sonic adventures, Reid's sonic palette has been described as ranging from "graceful" and "danceable" all the way to "silk-falling-through-space," and "pit-full-of-centipedes" (San Francisco Classical Voice). Her debut album for trumpet and interactive electronics, "Underneath and Sonder," was released on pfMENTUM in October, 2019.

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Mar. 8th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

Gloria Kaba is a Ghanaian-American engineer, producer, mixer, and writer with over 14 years of experience in the studio. She's best known for her work with A Tribe Called Quest and Solange, but has built an impressive list of credits that include Madonna, Beyoncé, André 3000, Kanye West, Anderson Paak, Dirty Projectors, Frank Ocean, and more.

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Feb. 10th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

Emily Evans is a sound engineer, music producer, recording studio director and musician. In 2006, she founded The Green Door Studio, a community-access analog/digital recording studio in Glasgow, Scotland, which has been named Recording Studio of the Year (Scottish New Music Awards, 2010), is consistently ranked among the Top 100 Cultural Contributors in Scotland, was called “the beating heart of the Glasgow music scene,” by Resident Advisor and has been featured in documentaries for NTS Radio and the BBC. She has recorded and mixed over 100 albums and EP’s, 3 named in the top 10 for Scottish Album of the Year and 7 featured in Album of the Year lists in The Wire magazine, The Vinyl Factory and The Quietus. Her clients range from the bittersweet pop of Belle and Sebastian (Matador Records), to the global electronic beat music of Golden Teacher (Rough Trade/ SoulJazz / Optimo Music), the noir rockabilly of The Amazing Snakeheads (Domino Records), the inventive folk of Alasdair Roberts (Drag City), the feminist dub duo LAPS (DFA Records), the Ghanaian Borborbor of Tafi Cultural Group, and the queer industrial disco of Total Leatherette (Milk Records).

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Feb. 10th, 2021 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

 Joo Won Park makes music with electronics, toys, and other sources that he can record or synthesize.   He is the recipient of Knight Arts Challenge Detroit (2019) and the Kresge Arts Fellowship (2020).  His music and writings are available on ICMC DVD, Spectrum Press, MIT Press, PARMA, Visceral Media, MCSD, SEAMUS, and No Remixes labels. He currently teaches Music Technology at Wayne State University.

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POSTPONED

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Richard Nicol (Pittsburgh, PA), founder and chief designer, sold the first Pittsburgh Modular Synthesizers module design, the VILFO, out of his basement to fund his crippling synthesizer addiction. Since then Richard has somewhat obsessively worked to create meticulously designed, beautiful instruments, which are both accessible to beginning sound experimenters, as well as infinitely extendable for professional musicians and producers.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Dec 29th, 2020 | 7:00 - 10:00pm

Live Broadcast

The UNO Music Technology area invites you on Tuesday, December 29 to tune into a live broadcast of Liner Notes. Recent alum John Coates talks about his recent studio project titled The Revolver EP. John discusses the process of recreating tracks from The Beatles' seminal 1966 album in a modern studio. A track-by-track discussion is interspersed with a full listening of the album. 

Tune in here: https://bit.ly/uno-liner-notes.

Dec. 9th, 2020 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Virtual Event

UNEARTHING TOMORROW is a concert of original works by the members of TAPEnsemble unravelling a shared theme: frontiers. From extreme environments to sociopolitical change to the COVID-19 pandemic, the event ranges from upbeat rhythmic jams to abstract ambient compositions. Created at a social distance during the Fall 2020 semester, UNEARTHING TOMORROW showcases the various perspectives and creative backgrounds of all the members of TAPEnsemble. 

You can watch the live stream here: http://bit.ly/unearthing-tomorrow

Nov. 9th, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

MaryClare Brzytwa is a multi-instrumental composer and performer based out of San Francisco, California. Specializing in electro-acoustic music and trained as a flutist, she builds her own custom-designed instruments in Max/MSP which allow her to combine her knowledge of these fields together in service of highly detailed, semi-improvisatory soundscapes. Her range spans contemporary classical, noise, experimental, jazz, free improvised, pop, and ambient music. She has toured extensively in theaters, festivals, and rock clubs throughout the US, Europe, and Japan as both side woman and soloist. Brzytwa studied under master improviser Fred Frith at Mills College, earning a BA in Composition, and earned an MFA while studying under Marc Lowenstein at the California Institute of the Arts.

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Oct. 5th, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

Nick Didkovsky is a guitarist, composer, and software programmer. In 1983, he founded the avant-rock septet Doctor Nerve. He presently resides in New York City, where he composes for Doctor Nerve and other ensembles, creates music software, and teaches computer music composition at New York University. He the primary developer of the computer music language Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), which is used by composers worldwide. He is director of bioinformatics for the GENSAT Project at The Rockefeller University, and develops software at a developmental neurobiology lab there.

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Sept. 28th, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

Lianna Squillace is a sound designer, educator, and musician currently based in Los Angeles. Lianna has worked as a recording and mixing engineer for organizations such as Sofar Sounds and for NPR’s “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!” live show. In addition, Lianna has worked as the sound designer and re-recording mixer for such acclaimed web-series as the Emmy-nominated Brown Girls, and Webby Award honoree Menace, as well as the Oscar shortlisted film Stay Close.

In addition to her extensive work as a sound designer and audio engineer, Lianna maintains a performance career. She has been privileged to appear at a variety of notable Chicago venues such as The Metro, Subterranean, and Buddy Guy's Legends, as well as numerous restaurants, hotels, and festivals, including the 2019 Chicago Blues Festival in Millennium Park.

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Sept. 14th, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Virtual Event

Lauren Hayes is a musician, improviser, and sound artist who builds and performs with hybrid analogue/digital instruments. She is Assistant Professor of Sound Studies within the School of Arts, Media and Engineering at Arizona State University where she founded the research group Practice and Research in Enactive Sonic Arts (PARIESA). Her research centers around embodied and enactive music cognition, enactive approaches to digital instrument design, interdisciplinary improvisation, and haptic technologies.

She is Director-At-Large of the International Computer Music Association, and a member of the New BBC Radiophonic Workshop, with whom she has been involved in the Oram Awards, responsible for promoting forward-thinking work from women and nonbinary artists.

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May 27th, 2020 | 10:00am - 10:00pm

Live Broadcast

The UNO Music Technology area invites you on Wednesday, May 27 to tune into a live broadcast of Liner Notes. Recent alum Connor Moritz talks about his recent LP titled ellipsis released under the moniker calendars:commas. Connor discusses the challenges of being a musician-engineer, the wonder of discovering new sounds, and the process of releasing a full-length in the midst of a global pandemic. A track-by-track discussion is interspersed with a full listening of the album. 

Tune in here: https://bit.ly/uno-liner-notes.

May 14th, 2020 | 10:00am - 10:00pm

Live Broadcast

The UNO Music Technology area invites you on Thursday, May 14 to tune into a broadcast of soundscape compositions and field recordings reflecting on life during the COVID-19 pandemic created by students in the Audio Recording Techniques III course. Inspired by artists like Luc Ferrari and Hildegard Westerkamp, each student recorded, edited, and processed sounds from their disrupted lives arranging them into an original sonic experience.

Tune in here: https://bit.ly/uno-from-a-distance.

Apr. 27th, 2020 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm CANCELLED

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

TAPEnsemble is a performer-composer collective utilizing electronic and acoustic instruments to perform diverse music from the 20th-21st century that defies conventional boundaries.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Mar. 2nd, 2020 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Sean Hamilton is a percussionist, composer, and improviser whose interests primarily lie in the conjunctions of new music, electroacoustic music, free improvisation, experimental music, and interdisciplinary projects.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Mar. 2nd, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Sean Hamilton is a percussionist, composer, and improviser whose interests primarily lie in the conjunctions of new music, electroacoustic music, free improvisation, experimental music, and interdisciplinary projects.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Feb. 3rd, 2020 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

A 8.2 loudspeaker concert featuring work by Elainie Lillios, Zach Lovitch, and Seth Shafer.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedul

Feb. 3rd, 2020 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Acclaimed as one of the “contemporary masters of the medium” by MIT Press’s Computer Music Journal, electroacoustic composer Elainie Lillios creates works that reflect her fascination with listening, sound, space, time, immersion and anecdote. Her compositions include stereo, multi channel, and Ambisonic fixed media works, instrument(s) with live interactive electronics, collaborative experimental audio/visual animations, and installations.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Dec. 9th, 2019 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

TAPEnsemble is a performer-composer collective utilizing electronic and acoustic instruments to perform diverse music from the 20th-21st century that defies conventional boundaries.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Nov. 11th, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Composer/cellist focusing on gesture, sustainability of technology in art, and sonification of data.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Oct. 14th, 2019 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Born and raised in New York City, Nicolas Collins lived in Amsterdam and Berlin in the 1990's before joining the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of electronic circuitry, conventional acoustic instruments, and hybrid electro-acoustic instruments. He is editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and his book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. Collins has the dubious distinction of having played at both CBGB and the Concertgebouw.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Oct. 14th, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Born and raised in New York City, Nicolas Collins lived in Amsterdam and Berlin in the 1990's before joining the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An early adopter of microcomputers for live performance, Collins also makes use of electronic circuitry, conventional acoustic instruments, and hybrid electro-acoustic instruments. He is editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and his book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking (Routledge), has influenced emerging electronic music worldwide. Collins has the dubious distinction of having played at both CBGB and the Concertgebouw.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Sept. 23, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Multi-platinum recording engineer, mixing engineer, and producer Prince Charles Alexander is visiting on Sept. 23, 2019 as part of the UNO Music Technology Guest Lecturer Series. Alexander has worked with Mary J. Blige, Destiny's Child, Faith Evans, P. Diddy, the Notorious B.I.G., Usher, Boyz II Men, Brandy, Babyface, Sting, Aretha Franklin, Usher, Brian McKnight, and others. He has garnered more than 40 Platinum and Gold certifications from the RIAA and has multiple Grammy Awards and nominations. He holds an adjunct instructor position at New York University's Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music, has taught audio technology at the Institute of Audio Research, and is a frequent lecturer at the City College of New York in Manhattan.

The UNO Music Technology Guest Lecturer Series is funded by the College of Communication, Fine Art and Media Cultural Enrichment Grant and is open to the public.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Sept. 19th, 2019 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

Serafin Sanchez presents a lecture-recital focusing on the technical and compositional use of Ableton Live for interactive performance. The concert also includes a live electronic performance by UNO faculty Seth Shafer.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Apr. 26th, 2019 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

OutrSpaces

TAPEnsemble is a performer-composer collective utilizing electronic and acoustic instruments to perform diverse music from the 20th-21st century that defies conventional boundaries.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Apr. 8th, 2019 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center Recital Hall

The Calliope Duo is a virtuosic, innovative ensemble committed to performing cutting edge classical music.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Apr. 8th, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Community Engagement Center 201

Elizabeth McNutt and Shannon Wettstein will discuss their collaboration Calliope Duo. In particular they will talk about their integrated used of technology in new music performance.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

 Mar. 4th, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Strauss Performing Arts Center 130

Krisjanis Geidans is experienced sound engineer both in live and studio work. After graduating West London University (2009) where he got a BA degree in Music Technology he returned back home to Riga. Since then he has been working with popmusicians in Baltic states and has recorded more than 20 albums. His dream was to be a live sound engineer and now he is working with Latvian pop bands – Aminata, The Sound Poets, and Dons. Krisjanis is part time lecturer in Latvian Music Academy and Ventspils High School where he teaches Logic Pro X which is his main DAW.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Feb. 25th, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Community Engagement Center 231

Guest lecturer Michael Joly will discuss his work in microphone design with his company OktavaMod, his experience working for dbx Inc., his work with the radio broadcast group Great Media Inc., and his new position as co- founder and CEO of the mental-wellness audio technology company, Hear Now Systems.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Feb. 4th, 2019 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Milo Bail Student Center Ballroom

Rob Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Music and Media in the Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. As a composer, performer, researcher and software designer, his creative and analytical practice explores the cognitive implications of the spaces between interactive game environments, network topographies and procedurally-generated sound and music.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Dec. 5th, 2018 | 7:30pm - 9:00pm

Bancroft Street Market

TAPEnsemble is a performer-composer collective utilizing electronic and acoustic instruments to perform diverse music from the 20th-21st century that defies conventional boundaries.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Nov. 5th, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Community Engagement Center 231

Cory Metcalf is an interactive media and sound artist with interests ranging from the field of bio-media to the performance of extended vocal and instrumental noise-music. Metcalf is currently pursuing an MFA in the Emergent Digital Practices department at the University of Denver where he is also an adjunct member of the faculty. Metcalf recently joined the materials development and support teams for Cycling74, makers of the visual object-oriented programming environment, Max/MSP/Jitter.

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Sept. 24th, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Criss Library 249

Chris Schlarb is a musician, composer, and producer based in Long Beach, CA. He is the owner and lead engineer of BIG EGO Studios. Most recently, he started his second recording label. Chris has released music as a solo artist under the moniker Psychic Temple and in several collaborative ensembles. His music for the video game NightSky (2011) received critical acclaim. 

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Mar. 5th, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Community Engagement Center 201 

Martha de Francisco is a record producer and recording engineer who specializes in Classical music. She is a professor for Sound Recording at McGill University in Montreal. An internationally acknowledged leader in the field of sound recording and record production Martha has recorded with some of the greatest classical musicians of our time for the major record labels and in the best concert halls. She has credits on over 300 recordings, mostly for worldwide release, many of which have been distinguished with the most prestigious awards. Martha de Francisco is Associate Professor of Sound Recording at McGill University. 

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php

Feb. 26th, 2018 | 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Community Engagement Center 231  

Fernando López-Lezcano is a composer, performer, lecturer and computer systems administrator at CCRMA, Stanford University. He has been taking care of computing resources there since 1993, including the Planet CCRMA collection of open source sound and music packages for Linux which he created and maintains since 2001. He has been involved in the field of electronic music since 1976 and his music has been released on CD and played in the Americas, Europe and East Asia. He was the “Edgar Varese Guest Professor” at TU Berlin during Summer 2008. 

For more information visit: https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-communication-fine-arts-and-media/music/about-us/event-schedule.php