2015 EUREKA! MUSICAL MINDS OF CALIFORNIA GRADUATE CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
8:00-8:30am Check-in/Registration & Coffee and Muffins
8:40 Welcome, Elisse and Leslie La Barre
8:45am-12:00pm California Poppy Session, rm. 131
rupture | rapture
CELESTE ORAM (UC San Diego)
Charissa Noble, soprano (UC Santa Cruz)
Christopher Clarino, percussion (UC San Diego)
The Musicologist as Computer Programmer: How Learning KYMA Has Informed My Study of Carla Scaletti
MADISON HEYING (UC Santa Cruz)
Two Pieces from “Five Piano Pieces”
STEPHEN LEWIS (UC San Diego), Lecture-Recital
Plowshares Coffee House: People, Music & Community
SUSAN WAGEMAN (CSU, East Bay)
Music We Love to Hate: Psychology in the Reception of Early Minimalism “A Lecture Recital”
TYSEN DAUER (Stanford University), Lecture-Recital
A Music Conservatory for the Blind? Francis Campbell’s American Dream
MICHAEL ACCINNO (UC Davis)
BREAK
Motorcycle Fantastique 2.0
HASSAN ESTAKHRIAN (UC Irvine)
Michele Cheng, Wiimote
Elizabeth Erickson, Wiimote
Hassan Estakhrian, Wiimote
Liveness: Concert Music Outside the Economy of Repetition
JENNIFER BEWERSE (UC San Diego), Lecture-Recital
Common Word Prosthetic
JOSHUA CHARNEY (UC San Diego)
Joshua Charney, piano
Benefits of Yoga for Musicians
JULIJA ZIBRAT (SF Conservatory)
12:00-1:00pm LUNCH
Please show your nametag for a picnic lunch!
1:00-3:00pm Redwood Session, rm. 131
Performance of Undoing, Moving; I’ll Go On, Movement II: An original work for Electric Bass, Live Electronics, and Male Dancer
ALEX HAMBERGER and LUKE MARTIN (CalArts), Lecture-Recital
Alex Hamberger, electric bass
Luke Martin, live electronics
Manuel Meza, solo dancer
Interactive Computer Musicianship and Artificial Improvisers
RICHARD SAVERY (UC Irvine)
Reharmonizing Ecology
CHARISSA NOBLE (UC Santa Cruz)
Kol Nidre in American Media
AARON FRUCHTMAN (UC Riverside)
Computer Face//Pure Being: Spaces of Imagination in Flying Lotus’s Cosmogramma
MAX SUECHTING (Stanford University)
Hamsters in Honey: a multi-instrumental improvising duo
MOLLY JONES (UC Irvine), Lecture-Recital
Molly Jones (saxophone)
Elizabeth Erickson (piano)
1:00-3:00pm Monarch Session, Rm. 136
Son Jarocho: Classical Genre of Ritual, Resistance, and Community
ROBIN SACOLICK (UC Santa Cruz)
Unpolitical Memory, Political Forgetfulness: Three Postcolonial Discourses in Hong Kong Through Music
SIU HEI LEE (UC San Diego)
Haydn, Zappa, and the Importance of Being Earnings-Driven
JONATHAN GERRARD (UC Irvine)
Composing [De] Composition
JENNIFER (no.e) PARKER (UC Riverside)
“2 is a truth”—An Exploration of Cross-Domain Relationships
ANTHONY CAULKINS (UC Irvine), Lecture-Recital
Transmission & Transmutation: The Ideology of Soviet Popular Song
ALEXANDRA GRABARCHUK (UC Los Angeles)
3:00-3:15 BREAK
3:15-3:30 Quail Session, rm. 131
Connection
NICK NORTON (UC Santa Barbara)
Jay Arms, guitar (UC Santa Cruz)
Real Life Looping
JULIE HERNDON (Mills College)
Julie Herndon, piano
Josh Marshall, saxophone
3:30-4:30pm Keynote: Sean Friar
4:35-6:00pm EUREKA! Session with the Amaranth String Quartet
String Quartet #19 in C Major, “Dissonance” – Allegro molto
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Amaranth String Quartet
Variable Stars
MICHELE CHENG, University of California, Irvine
Amaranth String Quartet
Two Mythological Birds
JORDAN NELSON, University of Southern California
Katie von Braun, violin
Ditt-E!
LESLIE LA BARRE, Claremont Graduate University
Erica Zappia, viola
String Quartet – Andantino, doucement expressif
CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Amaranth String Quartet
–Pause and Composer Introductions–
between the traveler and the setting sun
KEVIN ZHANG, University of California, San Diego
Amaranth String Quartet
Three Miniature Rhapsodies
HAOSI HOWARD CHEN, University of California, Los Angeles
Abigail Shiman, violin
Teaser
SEAN FRIAR
Helen Newby, cello
Ang Bakus ni Orion (Orion’s Belt), movements II and III
- Nagkitâ sa Alnilam (Rendezvous at Alnilam)
III. Pag-abot sa Mintaka (Arrival at Mintaka)
GLENN P. LLORENTE, University of California, Los Angeles
Amaranth String Quartet
6:00-7:00pm Reception
Still Want More?…Post Conference Activities in the Area:
Post Conference Concert|For those interested there is a on-campus 7:30 concert UCSC’s West Javanese and Balinese Gamelan Concert (Recital Hall, $3-6)
Post Reception and/or Gamelan concert: A group will be heading to Santa Cruz Brewing Company (cash only) & West End Tap Room (both open until 10pm) and then onwards to Santa Cruz’s downtown to 515 Kitchen & Cocktails and 99 Bottles (open until 1:30am). Details will be provided day of conference.