Board
We work tirelessly to organize, promote, and present new electro-acoustic works to a skeptical public, pushing the limits of music esthetics to the limits of imagination.
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Our Board Members are spread around the world
Art Director
Joseph Waters is a member of the first generation of American classical composers who grew up playing in rock bands. Since childhood he has been intrigued by the confluence and tensions that entangle and bind the music of Europe and Africa. His interests include physiological, sub-cultural pattern seeking mechanisms and development of fractal cognitive models for understanding pattern recognition. Much of his work involves interactions between electronic and acoustic instruments.
He is the founder of NWEAMO (New West Electro-Acoustic Music Organization). Each October the NWEAMO Festival travels between Mexico City, San Diego, Portland and New York City, presenting composers from around the world in concerts that unite the worlds of avant-garde classical and experimental electronica.
He performs and composes for the Waters_Bluestone_Duel, a collaboration with percussionist Joel Bluestone that explores the combination of live electronics and percussion, as well as SWARMIUS the virtuoso interdisciplinary quartet in residence at San Diego State University.
His music has been performed in Moscow (Russia), Beijing, Wellington (New Zealand), Stockholm (Sweden), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Venice (Italy), Hong Kong, Valencia (Spain), Rosario (Argentina), Melbourne (Australia), Bonn (Germany), New York City, Santiago (Chile), Budapest (Hungary), Cadiz (Spain), Mexico City, Utrecht (Netherlands), Warsaw (Poland) and throughout the USA.
Recordings are available on iTunes, as well as Albany Records and North Pacific Records.
He studied composition at Yale University, the Universities of Oregon and Minnesota, and Stockholms Musikpedagogiska Institut. Primary teachers were Jacob Druckman, Bernard Rands, Roger Reynolds, Dominick Argento, and Martin Bresnick.
Brenden Beu studied with Joe Waters and San Diego State University and now lives in Brooklyn, New York where he records and performs with his group The Fearsome Sparrow.
Massimo Massarotto, Venice IT, San Diego, CA.
Massimo holds a BA in International Business with a specialization in Music Industry management. Since he was a teenager, a natural vocation drives his excitement toward the Artistic Direction of intricate musical events. He is continuously experimenting with the variables of the entertainment industry. Currently his life is split between San Diego, CA and Venice, IT.
Massimo creates and produces events ranging from cultural-ethnical environments to experimental interactivity, Multimedia, art performances and installation.
He wrote a graduation thesis entitled Music and Technology, will we globalize musically?
His goal is to effectively promote the evolution of Music around the globe. Next objective is the extension of NWEAMO’s milieu among the Europe's pearl cities.
Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, her thesis, an interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. She is a founding member of the NeXT Ens, an ensemble with the unique mission to perform and support the creation of interactive electroacoustic works, and she is the musical director for Kinesthetech Sense, a dance company which integrates technology and movement. She is a board member of, Organised Sound, the BEAM Foundation and the International Computer Music Association. She was recently hired by SUNY Stony Brook to teach music composition and digital music.
Paula Matthusen currently studies composition and electroacoustic music with Elizabeth Hoffmann and Lou Karchin at New York University-Graduate School of Arts and Science, where she is a Ph.D. Candidate. Matthusen has also studied at the University of Wisconsin-- Madison School of Music with Steve Dembski and Joel Naumann, with Michael Czjakowski at the Aspen Music Festival, Tobias P. M. Schneid at the Das Treffen Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, and Tom Zelle in Tempe, Arizona. She performs frequently with Groundwave New Music Ensemble, the electroacoustic duo ouisaudei, and Object Collection. Her music has been performed by orchest de ereprijs, Ballett Frankfurt, International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Ensemble Sirius, noranewdanceco, the Diesel Lounge Boys, Jody Redhage and Kathryn Woodard. Honors include a Fulbright Grant, ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award, first prize at the 11th International Young Composers' Meeting, and the MacCracken and Langley Fellowships.
Alison Rootberg, Los Angeles, CA.
Alison Rootberg is an interdisciplinary artist whose primary focus is in dance and video. She completed her MFA in Dance and Integrated Media at the California Institute of the Arts. Rootberg also has a BFA in Dance and a BS in Inter-Arts and Technology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Furthermore, she was selected and attended the Sydney Kahn Summer Institute at the Kitchen in New York, the Music and Dance Exchange at Dartington College of Art in Devon (United Kingdom), and STEIM in Amsterdam (Netherlands) for a residency in the Electronic Performance Arts. Alison is also a board member of the Dance Resource Center (DRC) and the Artistic Director of Kinesthetech Sense.
For more information, go to: www.ksense.org
Matt is an experimental drum-machine improviser based in Oakland, California. He's a member of Outsound.org, Larnie Fox's Cranks Ensemble, and Moe Staiano's Moe!Kestra!. He also organizes experimental music shows in San Francisco and Oakland. www.ribosomemusic.com.
Composer and video artist, Micheal studied music composition at the New England Conservatory (Malcom Peyton), Amherst College (Lew Spratlan), the Yale Scool of Music (Jon Berger, Marin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman), and UCSD (Miller Puckette, Roger Reynolds), and currenttly is associate professor of music composition and technology at The University of Colorado, Boulder. In the past several years Theodore’s music and/or visual art have been presented in China, Japan, Australia, Greece, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain and across the United State. Theode is active in the creation of intermedia theater and recently collaborated wiht Michelle Ellswoth on a touring show (The Monkey Saddle) which received 14 performances in the United State. Theodre performs experimental rock and folk music in various projects (currently including a band wiht Tim Eriksen), having recently performed in such venues as the Red Rocks Amphitheater and the Newport Folk Festival.
Craig’s acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions have been widely performed across the United States and in Europe. He has received numerous awards and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Lee EttelsoV-Scenen Composers Award and The Luigi-Russolo International Electro-Acoustic Music Competition, among others. Notable performances include those at Carnegie Recital Hall, The Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, The International Computer Music Conference, The Korean Computer Music Festival, Third Practice, The Bourges International Electronic Music Festival, CyberArts Festival, and The Composers Conference. His music is available on the SEAMUS and Centaur records. Craig Walsh received his Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the Mannes College of Music and his M.F.A. and Ph.D. in Composition and Theory from Brandeis University. He is currently assistant professor of music at the University of Arizona.
Rodrigo holds a PhD in Electroacoustic composition from City University in London and a BA in composition from the Musical Studies and Research Center (CIEM) in Mexico City; he is in charge of the Mexican Center for Music and Sonic Arts (C+). He has performed in more than 12 countries since 2001 with his project “Oreja Digital” (Digital ear) and he is artistic director of the “Visiones Sonoras” international Electroacoustic Music Festival. His work is available in more than 10 compact discs, and his CDs “Manifiesto” and “Space Within” had received excellent reviews and radio broadcast both in Mexico and abroad.
New music enthusiast JIM ROSENFIELD is by trade a marketing consultant, in which role he has delivered more than 1,500 speeches and seminars worldwide, and worked with MasterCard International, Bank of America, IBM, Intel, Citigroup, American Airlines, British Telecom, Air New Zealand, and many others. His hundreds of articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Forbes, Fortune, and Business Week, and he has appeared on CNN, ABC's 20/20, Dateline: NBC, CBS's 60 Minutes, and NPR. A graduate of Columbia University, Rosenfield attends more than 150 concerts and operas a year, serves on the boards of eighth blackbird, La Jolla Music Society, and Mainly Mozart, as well as NWEAMO, and is a member of Carnegie Hall's Patron Council. For more information, visit www.jrosenfield.com.
Rewoldt's efforts to explore unique combinantions of instruments and dance with saxophone has resulted in nearly 20 new premieres by composers such as Frank Stemper and Joseph Waters. As a result, Todd co-founded SWARMIUS as an outlet to bring audiences new works featuring acoustic instruments, dance, and electronics.
He was born in Buenos Aires in 1971.
He obtained his degree in electroacustic composition from the “Facultad de Ciencias Sociales” of the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes
He worked as professor of music and technology at National School of Cinema (ENERC), Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, LIPM (Centro Cultural Recoleta) and at the ORT Institute (Producer of electroacustic arts)
He was awarded with a scholarship to study electroacustic music given by the Cultural Ministry of Spain (2000), and a subsidy of Fundación Antorchas (2003) to make an electroacustic piece and of Cultural Ministry of Spain (2006) to make a piece for piano and electroacoustic process. His piece “Duo” was awarded at the Harvard University Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (Live Electronic Music Competition 2006).
His work “Baile” for Contrabass Clarinet, live electronics and computer-generated tape has been awarded with the “Juan Carlos Paz” Prize (2004) granted by the "Fondo Nacional de las Artes," Argentina.
He is currently technical coordinator of the Mexican Centre for Music and Sonic Arts (CMMAS) located in the City of Morelia, México,
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Matt has been writing songs since he was 10. He decided to take music seriously, go to music school and learn to make a living as a songwriter. He discovered learning music is forever and music is much like science; a body of testable knowledge, from which to forever build and forever add.
Tim is a graduate student in electro-acoustic music composition at San Diego State University studying under Dr. Joseph Waters. He is interested in relationships between human cognitive faculties and successful artistic output. Tim composes notated music as well as dynamic compositions in Max/MSP/Jitter.
We would like to thank the following individuals for many years of dedication to making the NWEAMO Festival grow.
Jill Teasely
Craig Burk
Dave McElroy
Ian McNicol
David Hess
Alex Bundy
Young Shin Choi
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Composer and video artist, Micheal studied music composition at the New England Conservatory (Malcom Peyton), Amherst College (Lew Spratlan), the Yale Scool of Music (Jon Berger, Marin Bresnick, Jacob Druckman), and UCSD (Miller Puckette, Roger Reynolds), and currenttly is associate professor of music composition and technology at The University of Colorado, Boulder. In the past several years Theodore’s music and/or visual art have been presented in China, Japan, Australia, Greece, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain and across the United State. Theode is active in the creation of intermedia theater and recently collaborated wiht Michelle Ellswoth on a touring show (The Monkey Saddle) which received 14 performances in the United State. Theodre performs experimental rock and folk music in various projects (currently including a band wiht Tim Eriksen), having recently performed in such venues as the Red Rocks Amphitheater and the Newport Folk Festival.
Erik DeLuca is an artist and active improviser from Tampa, Florida. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Music Technology at Florida International University in Miami where he studies with Paula Matthusen and Kristine H. Burns. In 2007, DeLuca graduated from the University of North Florida with a Bachelors of Arts and spent a year at the University of Central Florida studying additional course work in sound design, music technology, and composition. His works concern notions of time, communication, technology, and indeterminacy.
DeLuca’s creations are “out-there but mesmerizing,” says Entertainment U Jacksonville. His recent work dissecting and reinterpreting John Cage’s “Indeterminacy” has been described as “the setting for a modern day happening.” He is currently a member of FLEA (Florida Laptop and Electronic Arts) Ensemble, the secretary of EARS (Electro-Acoustic Research Society), and the graduate sound engineer for the Wertheim Performing Arts Center in Miami. DeLuca recently directed, managed, and performed in the 2008 FEASt FEST (Florida Electro-Acoustic Student Festival). In addition, DeLuca was recently commissioned to design and place sound for Murmurs, a multimedia installation at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.
DeLuca’s music has often been described as a “beautifully controlled mess.” In that light, he believes that intuition is one of the best forms of creation, and that some of the most stimulating inspirations can come from mistakes.
Juraj Kojs is a Postdoctoral Associate in Music Technology and Multimedia Art at Yale's Department of Music. Kojs holds a recent Ph.D. in Composition and Computer Technologies from the University of Virginia's McIntire Department of Music. His dissertation discusses how the cyberinstrumens by means of physical modeling synthesis facilitate a continuum between physical and virtual realities in music. His advisor was Judith Shatin.
Geneviève Favre was born in 1978 in Lausanne, Switzerland. She studied Fine Arts and followed singing courses in Geneva and in Vienna. Her performances, often flavored with irony, self-irony and humor, are internationally presented and have received much supports and awards in Switzerland.
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Satoshi Shiraishi (jp) is a musician and interactive media designer currently living in the Hague, The Netherlands. He originally started his music carrier as a rock guitarist. After the meeting with computer music, he move to the Netherlands where he obtained MA from Royal Conservatoire in The Hague (Sonology) and Interfaculty Image and Sound (ArtScience). Satoshi works in various fields, from rock to computer music, from web to interactive media design.
Alo Allik is a sound artist and producer who has been actively involved in a number of music scenes internationally since the early 1990ies. His output as a dj, composer and performer over the years has evolved through drum and bass, electronica, deep house, and more obscure subgenres of electronic dance music to miniature forms and expressions in computerised audio and spatio-rhtyhmic electroacoustic music. For a long time, he has explored the cognitively and conceptually uneasy aera between the ritualistic, entertaining, and intellectual worlds of musical expression. From the early days of Estonian indie rock scene, the drum and bass clubs of the Pacific Northwest to digital art communities in the Netherlands and New York, Alo has been seeking out and trying to dissolve artificial boundaries and restrictions that become established through natural evolution of cultural practices. He is currently in a habit of solo laptop performances mingled with activities as a member of the multimedia collective ibitsu with Satoshi Shiraishi and Yota Morimoto. At the Ultrahang festival Alo will be performing a solo live laptop set and faciltiating a SuperCollider workshop as part of the Share symposium.
Composer Paul Hembree (b. 1982) returned to his native state in 2006 to pursue a master’s degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder. At CU, Hembree is both the production manager of the Pendulum New Music series and a graduate teaching assistant in the music technology department. In 2006/07 he studied acoustic composition with Daniel Kellogg, electro-acoustic composition with Michael Theodore, and he currently studies acoustic composition with Carter Pann.
Jennifer Stock is a composer and sound artist living in Brooklyn, NY. Her compositions center on the live processing of sound and image. Recent performances include the IGIGI Yale Composer's Concert at Roulette, UnTapped @ the Tank, and the New West Electronic Arts Festival. She has performed on laptop at Monkeytown, the Knitting Factory, the Chelsea Art Museum, Galapagos, and White Box's New Composers Series. She is the curator of a series called "Sound Art;" combining complimentary composers in genre-defying line-ups. The largest of these "audible adventures" (Steve Smith, Time Out) was a six-hour concert in Washington Square Park.
