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Cort Lippe, composer-in-residence

Cort Lippe is a leading figure in the field of interactive computer music. He studied composition and computer music with Larry Austin in the USA. He also followed composition and analysis seminars with various composers including Boulez, Donatoni, K. Huber, Messiaen, Penderecki, Stockhausen, and Xenakis. From 1980-83 he studied and worked in The Netherlands, at the Instituut voor Sonologie with G.M. Koenig and Paul Berg in the fields of computer and formalized music. From 1983-1994 he lived in France where he worked for three years at the Centre d'Etudes de Mathematique et Automatique Musicales (CEMAMu), founded by Iannis Xenakis, while following Xenakis' courses on acoustics and formalized music at the University of Paris. Subsequently, he worked for nine years at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), founded by Pierre Boulez, where he gave courses on new technology in composition, and developed real-time computer music applications. His research includes more than 35 peer-reviewed publications on interactive music, granular sampling, score following, spectral processing, FFT-based spatial distribution/delay, acoustic instrument parameter mapping, and instrument design. His compositions have received numerous international prizes, and he has written for many internationally acclaimed new music soloists and ensembles. His music has been performed at over 100 peer-reviewed and 150 invited festivals worldwide and his works are recorded on more than 30 CDs. As a teacher, Lippe has given over 100 presentations and guest lectures around the world, and has been a visiting professor at universities and conservatories in Japan, Denmark, Austria, Greece, and the USA. He was a recipient of a Fulbright Award in 2009 where he spent six months teaching and doing research at the National and Kapodistiran University of Athens, Greece. Since 1994 he has taught in the Department of Music of the University at Buffalo, New York where he is an associate professor of composition and director of the Lejaren Hiller Computer Music Studios.

Chamber Cartel, special guest ensemble

Chamber Cartel is an ensemble dedicated to finding the rare, wonderful, and imaginative, in contemporary music. Based in Atlanta, we have been hailed as “the darlings of Atlanta’s [New Music] scene” and “contemporary classical heavyweights” - The Goat Farm Arts Center. Having a flexible instrumentation, Chamber Cartel has performed seventeen concerts unique programming since 2012 and commissioned over seven works. We have collaborated with artists such as Nobrow.music.collective, Stacey Mastrian, the A/B Duo, Bent Frequency, CORE Performance Company, Lotte Betts-Dean, and Sonic Generator. This year we will participate in the Northwestern University New Music Conference in Chicago in April performing Riding with Death, a piece written for the Cartel. Our third season, Arcana, includes highlights such as, Le Marteau sans Maître, Tongues, The Brightest Form of Absence, Four Thousand Holes, and newly commissioned works from Aaron Jay Myers, Adam Scott Neal, Carolyn Chen, Tony Donofrio, and our composer-in-association Marc Yeats. Later this year we will release our first CD, The Shape Distance, a collection of pieces by the same title written for Chamber Cartel by Marc Yeats. We are thrilled to be included in the University of Florida’s New Music Festival this year.

Visiting members of Chamber Cartel:
Caleb Herron (percussion) is an energetic performer of the new and unheard. He was born with an ear for unique sounds and feeds this intrinsic sense through his love for contemporary music. Caleb founded several unique contemporary music groups including Cerberus Percussion Group, Ensemble 64.8, The Devil May Care Duo, and Chamber Cartel. These groups have expanded the chamber repertoire by commissioning new works by up and coming composers as well as performing rarely heard masterpieces from the 20th and 21st centuries. As Artistic Director, Chamber Cartel, performed twelve unique programs in 2012. Their third season, Arcana, unmasks the mystery surrounding contemporary music and brings it to the public. Caleb has been received with fervor as a soloist in New York, Atlanta, San Diego, Chicago, and Seattle. He has commissioned more than fifteen works for solo percussion. His concerts are lively, tenacious, and ambitious leaving attendees with feelings of wonderment and artistic moments that are the highlights of their week, month, or even year. Aesthetically, Caleb seeks to blur the line between gesture and sound through his performance. With his work, he hopes to expose his audience to new, exciting aural and visual experiences.
From experimental chamber rock to avant-garde New Music, Amy O’Dell (piano) is a staple in the eclectic Atlanta music scene. She connects these worlds with a passionate and focused energy that permeates her performance. Amy is known as the quirky, energetic keytarist/keyboardist in the Clibber Jones Ensemble appearing in venues all over Atlanta. Since 2012 she has become more involved in the New Music scene in Atlanta as the adventurous, imaginative pianist of Chamber Cartel, sharing the Cartel's passion for exploring ambitious and unusual music. Amy's involvement in both of these ensembles has led her to collaborate with and commission numerous works from composers such as Aaron Jay Myers, Daniel Swilley, Adam Scott Neal and Marc Yeats. She has given the Atlanta premiere to several pieces of the New Music Canon. She can be heard on Chamber Cartel's premiere recording, The Shape Distance, an evening-length piece written for the Cartel by Marc Yeats and will also be appearing on Chamber Cartel's second recording; the music of Adam Scott Neal. Both discs are to be released later in 2014. Amy received her Masters at Georgia State University where she studied under Geoffrey Haydon, with an emphasis on chamber music with Paula Peace and Brandt Friederickson.

Festival Schedule

All events are free and open to the public. All events will be held in MUB 101 except where noted.

Friday, March 14 -

12:50-1:40pm - Student Convocation Performance

7:30pm - UnBalanced Connection
featuring music by Cort Lippe and UF composers

Saturday, March 15

10am-12pm - Masterclass with Chamber Cartel, guest ensemble

3pm - Society of Composers Student Chapter Concert

7:30pm - Guest performers Chamber Cartel
featuring works by John Luther Adams

Sunday, March 16 -

1pm - Cort Lippe, composer-in-residence lecture

7:30pm - Nuclear Music Ensemble
featuring works by John Cage, Cort Lippe, and Frederic Rzewski

Monday, March 17 -

10am-12pm - Masterclass with Cort Lippe, composer-in-residence (Friends of Music Room)

4:05pm - Cort Lippe, composer-in-residence lecture (Friends of Music Room)

7:30pm - Benjamin O'Brien, doctoral recital

Tuesday, March 18 -

7:30pm - Faculty Chamber Series
featuring Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat (Soldier's Tale)



Special thanks to the UF Chapter of The Society of Composers, Inc., the Sonic Computing Organization, UF Student Government and The UF School of Music