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Student Scholarship Symposium

2021 Music Student Scholarship!

CELEBRATING SCHOLARSHIP AND CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT

The 29th Annual Linfield University Student Symposium will take place on Monday, April 26, 2021.

This event is open to the public.

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The Student Symposium is a celebration of the work done by Linfield students. The work ranges from student performances to short films, to research in the social and behavioral sciences, the natural sciences and the humanities. This year's Symposium features work from over 60 students from 17 different departments and disciplines in a wide variety of formats.

Descriptions of student work are posted in DigitalCommons@Linfield.

The Student Symposium is sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs and the Wendell L. Foote Science Endowment.

2021 SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS (MUSIC)

9 - 9:30 a.m. Rain G. Bailey, “Wild Nights - Wild Nights!” Thomas Sagers, “I Sing to Use the Waiting” (Composers Studio)
9 - 9:30 a.m. Kenna Tanouye, “BIPOC Queer and Gender Non-Conforming Artists, the Significance of Pop Concept Albums & the Music Films That Coincide with Them” (Women in Music course)
10:30 - 11 a.m. Pedro Graterol, “Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) V. Chaconne”
12:30 - 1 p.m. Sungmin Park, “Performance of "Nightsongs" for Fluegelhorn and Trumpet with Accompaniment, by Richard Peaslee”
1:30 - 1:45 p.m. Sungmin Park and Samuel C. Brinda, “In the Midst of the Gloom, Hear the Watchmen Singing: Wachet auf, Ruft Uns die Stimme”
2 - 2:15 p.m. Tara Baker, “Feminine Archetype of Musical Drama: A Multimedia Presentation”
2:30 - 3 p.m. Pedro Graterol, “When There Are 9: Podcast” (Women in Music course)

Pushing Boundaries: Hindemith, Clarke and the Sonata FormThis presentation explores the ways in which Rebecca Clarke and Paul Hindemith, two prominent composers of the 20th century, explore and break conventions on traditional musical structures with Clarke’s Viola Sonata (1919) and Hindemith’s Viola Sonata, Op.11 No.4 (1919) by taking ideas of the 19th century and expanding their limits with form, concepts of duality, and unifying musical ideas.

EuropeEurope for Two-Channel Fixed Media (2019) is a collection of nine pieces composed of diverse, modern, and geographically relevant field recordings taken on a cell phone. Continuity of the collection is established by each piece being composed exclusively of environmental recordings from the location of their title. Composers are often inspired by, or mimic, the environment in their work. This collection allows for the environment to speak for itself and uses music as the organizational tool in which to present and interpret it. The field recordings range from traffic signals, shattering ice, and subway trains, to pub chatter, laughter, waves, and more. Few of these sounds, however, are presented organically. Rather, they are manipulated, re-pitched, slowed down, sped up, reversed, and more to explore their musical properties. The sounds of cities are typically lost in their environments, though with music technology their sonic potential is greatly enhanced and these cityscapes become immortalized through intentional instrumentation. The task of this collection is to challenge our preconceived notions of these places and to appreciate the similarities and differences of modern European soundscapes.

Like Fireworks Weeping into BloomThis is an excerpt from a collection of songs revolving around the theme of conditionality. The full project is a senior thesis that combines the disciplines of music and creative writing in search of a language between the two misprinted versions of the truth that constitute either of these disciplines when viewed as hermetically separate from one another or from all other forms of communication. Similarly, the exploration of conditionality -- over the course of the collection and to a lesser extent throughout each song -- finds that although human interrelations can lead to humiliation, disappointment and ravaging pain, engaging in these interrelations is eventually the choice preferable to the speaker. The speaker concludes that it is both more costly and more worthwhile to be involved messily in a community than to be hermetically isolated, safe from emotion and utterly alone.

Variations on the Theme of LifeVariations on the Theme of Life is an interactive media piece, an iOS application that generates a unique musical experience using the mathematics of cellular automata and Conway's Game of Life.

Department of Music Student Symposium Honors RecitalThe Department of Music Honors Recital is presented at the Student Symposium to recognize excellent progress in performance, scholarship, and creativity in the area of music lesson study. The students perform selections in solo and chamber music repertoire, and original songs composed in Songwriting class.

GSV EmpiricistThe GSV Empiricist, or General Systems Vehicle Empiricist, is a ship in Iain M. Banks's Culture series of novels. In its first physical appearance, the Empiricist is described as having “no single outer hull surrounding [its] hundreds of individual components, just colossal bubbles of air held in place by field enclosures” (Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata). And it’s enormous: Comfortably over two hundred kilometres long even by the most conservative of measurement regimes, fabulously, ellipsoidally rotund, dazzling with multiple sun-lines and tiny artificial stars providing illumination for motley steps and levels and layers of riotous vegetation – belonging, strictly speaking, on thousands of different worlds spread across the galaxy – boasting hundreds of contrasting landscapes from the most mathematically manicured to the most (seemingly) pristinely, savagely wild, all contained on slab-storeys of components generally kilometres high. (Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata) In short, it’s a mobile city with a population of ten billion, and I wanted to try to capture a little bit of that scene here. In truth, exploring a space this vast would take hours, even moving incredibly quickly, so I composed the work from the perspective of a static drone, observing the passage of this behemoth. The piece moves throughout the ship, bringing forth several novel acoustic spaces. The composition was realized in the Composers’ Studio at Linfield College.

CumulonimbusCumulonimbus for 2-Channel Fixed Media looks at synthesized sounds that mimic nature. It explores different layers of rhythmic material that vary from organic acceleration to more static pulses. The idea of wind and water pervades the music across the frequency spectrum and is interpreted through software synthesizers in Logic Pro X. The composition was realized in the Composers’ Studio at Linfield College.

Neural Audio: Music Information Retrieval Using Deep Neural NetworksThe use of deep neural networks has exploded in popularity recently. Thinking that music information retrieval should not be left out of this trend in machine learning, we explore two different applications of this technology in the field. The first we looked at was genre identificaton, using the initial categories of 'popular music,' 'art music,' and 'traditional music.' This was found to be a difficult problem - classifying music into these categories can be challenging even for experts, and assembling a large dataset for use in training represents a significant problem. The second approach we took to using these techniques was looking at instrument identification, specifically for the purpose of identifying the time and category (from "guitar," "vocal," or "drum") of solos in popular music.

Paper Boat for Mezzo-Soprano and Cello (2016)Paper Boat for Mezzo-Soprano and Cello (2016) is a setting of (Bingxin) Wanying Xie's 1923 poem by the same title. She wrote the poem while traveling from China to France for studies. The poem explores her uncertainty about the unknown and feelings of loneliness. Windblown, facing the sea, Bingxin could not help missing her home; she began folding paper boats to send home to her mother across the sea. Like Bingxin, I live a great distance from my family and often feel homesick. To express these emotions through music, I have used a minor key to convey sadness. The accompanying cello acts as the sea, unpredictable, yet always moving. Text: 我从来不肯妄弃了一张纸，总是留着留着，叠成一只一只很小的船⼉，从舟上抛下在海里。有的被天风吹卷到舟中的窗⾥，有的被海浪打湿，沾在船头上。我仍是不灰⼼心地每天地叠着，总希望有一只能流到我要它到的地⽅去。母亲，倘若你梦中看见一只很小的白船⼉，不要惊讶它无端入梦。这是你至爱的女儿含着泪叠的，万水千山，求它载着她的爱和悲哀归去。冰⼼ (谢婉莹) 一九二三年八⽉二十七日 Translation: I never leave a piece of paper. I always keep it, fold it into little boats, and throw the boats from the ship into the sea. Some of them fly back into the ship through the window, some of them get wet and stick to the front of the ship. I’m still folding them every day, always hoping there is one that can float to where I want it to go. Mother, if you see a very little boat in your dream, don’t be surprised to see it in your dream. This is what your daughter has folded with tears. It floats for a long way over land and sea, to come back home with love and sadness. Bing Xin (Wanying Xie) 8/27/1923 Translated by Didan Yang

Department of Music Student Symposium RecitalThe 2015 Annual Student Symposium Recital features students from the Department of Music nominated by the music faculty to recognize excellence in scholarship and creative achievement. The performance includes selections from senior capstones in music (senior recitals, projects, lecture-recitals, theses), original music compositions, music performed for competitions, original dance choreography, and faculty-student collaborative chamber music works.

2015-Department of Music Student Symposium Recital.pdf

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