Oct. 10, 2012
“Music and New Media at the Crossroads”
scheduled for Thursday, October 18 and Friday, October 19
Next week, the University of Missouri will host an interdisciplinary symposium and festival, “Music and New Media at the Crossroads,” on Thursday, October 18 and Friday October 19. Described as “an exploration of the profound ways in which new media and technologies are changing the way we create, disseminate, receive, and comment about music,” the event is presented by the School of Music and School of Journalism in partnership with the University Concert Series and includes four public programs. At 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, composer Tod Machover (pictured), head of the MIT Media Lab’s Opera of…
March 9, 2012
MNMI in the media: Stephanie Berg, Donovan Tousignant, eighth blackbird
The Mizzou New Music Initiative continues to make news on campus, in Columbia, and throughout the state of Missouri and the world of music. Most recently, two young composers associated with the MNMI were featured in the Columbia Daily Tribune. Stephanie Berg, a graduate student who’s a member of the Mizzou New Music Ensemble and a past winner of the Sinquefield Composition Prize, was profiled by the Tribune‘s Jill Renae Hicks in a story on February 19. Berg will be one of the resident composers at this year’s Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, to be held July…