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National Student Electronic Music Event

February 8-9, 2019 at the University of Virginia

an electronic music festival for graduate and undergraduate students exploring performance, research, collaboration, and creativity

Program link

Click here to view the online program

Schedule

Installations

Memories of Light (Helen He): Language Alcove, Friday afternoon - Saturday
Through summersultryings (Chris Luna): outside Old Cabell Hall, Friday afternoon - all day Saturday
A more perfect union (Tate Carson): Old Cabell Hall lobby, Friday - Saturday

Concert 1

Friday, 10am, Old Cabell Hall

Elliott Lupp - Hinge
Juan Carlos Vasquez - Collage 11 “Albeniz Collage”
Nicolas Chuaqui - Footprints I
harleigh shaw - Entangled
Eli Stine - No Where
Ian English - Organism 2.5
Ryne Siesky - …grind…

Paper Session 1

Friday, 1pm, New Cabell Hall 323

Justine Valka - Using an Electromagnetic Pickup to Listen to Electronic Devices
Skye van Duuren - Bridging Worlds: Creating Fixed-Media Microtonal Music with Acoustic Instruments

Concert 2

Friday, 2pm, Old Cabell Hall

Stephen Hennessey - Left of Moments
T. R. Beery - inside
Carolyn Borcherding - Frenetic Disintegration
Peiyue Lu - Aquatic Cubes
Stewart Engart - Gli ugonotti – Qui sotto il ciel
Tomek Arnold - Dance and Noise
Ryan Maguire - freeLanguage

Guest Artist Keynote

Friday, 3:30pm, Old Cabell Hall 113

Presentation/talk by guest artist, Aaron Dilloway. Snacks will be provided after.

Carpool/Shuttle Piece

Friday, 5:30pm

Group car trip to listen to Drive to the Edge by Ralph Lewis, broadcast through WXTJ. After the keynote, we’ll meet a shuttle out on Ruppel Drive (next to Wilson Hall).

Late-Night 1

Friday, 8pm, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative (209 Monticello Rd, Charlottesville, VA, 22902)

Julius Bucsis
MDLWR
AUTODIVA
MOSAIC

Concert 3

Saturday, 11am, Old Cabell Hall

Nicole Carroll - Orrery Arcana
Kittie Cooper - Party Teen #1
Drew Smith - Open Your Window
Carlos Cotallo Solares and Timothy David Orme - generations 1.1
Omar Fraire - Winning Quotes
G. Blake Harrison-Lane - Squissael
Aiman Khan - Ragged Call

Paper Session 2

Saturday, 1pm, New Cabell Hall 168

John Clay Allen - Perception and Analysis in Electroacoustic Music: A Unified Approach
Logan Barrett - Extended Combinatorial Structures in “Out of Time”
Kaiming Chen - MelodyPainter: Draw the Melody in Virtual Reality

Concert 4

Saturday, 3pm, Old Cabell Hall

Jacob Sandridge - Flock
Liz Knox - In situ
William Bertrand, Austin Covell - dregs-magic
Mauricio Fonseca López - Calicanto
Drake Dragone - Quiv
Aaron Stepp - Transparent, luminescent

Workshop

Saturday, 4:30pm, Wilson Hall Makerspace (1st floor)

Light Controlled Noise Synth Workshop with Travis Thatcher

Learn to build a hackable self-contained, light controlled three oscillator noise synthesizer based around the Hex Schmitt Trigger chip in this two hour workshop. Open to all skill levels though some soldering experience would be helpful.

This workshop has limited seats - please register through this form if you’d like to participate. We can only take the first 15 who register.

Late-Night 2

Saturday, 8pm, The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative (209 Monticello Rd, Charlottesville, VA, 22902)

Anruo Cheng
Aaron Dilloway
Leon Bison
Binary Canary

Guest Artist

aaron photo credit: Dirk Coenen

Aaron Dilloway is one of the most creative, prolific, and revered figures in the Midwest American experimental/noise scene. His performances and recordings incorporate rhythmic loops from eight-track tapes, vocal improvisations, found sounds, and field recordings. He uses contact microphones in order to generate harsh, feedback-laced noises, sometimes placing microphones inside his mouth in order to create bizarre, ogre-like distorted voices. While he channels some dark, violent energies into his sonic constructions, there's also a crucial element of playful, absurdist humor to his work, making his performances confusing yet highly enjoyable spectacles of Dadaist performance art.

While Dilloway is perhaps best known for his involvement with Michigan noise group Wolf Eyes, he's had an extensive solo career, issuing hundreds of recordings (usually limited cassettes) under his own name as well as Spine Scavenger. In addition, he's also collaborated and issued split releases with other well-known noise and experimental artists such as Kevin Drumm, Prurient, John Wiese, and many others. Dilloway is also the owner of Hanson Records, a long-running experimental music label as well as a brick-and-mortar record store and mail-order service based in Oberlin, Ohio.

bandcamp - twitter - Hanson Records

Travel

Buses

The University’s bus system (UTS) is free for everyone. View real-time service map.

The city’s bus system (CAT) is $0.75/ride or $1.50 for a day pass, and the CAT also has a free trolley. View real-time service map.

Parking

Parking on-campus is limited. Here’s the University’s visitor parking information page. Most metered parking spaces are $2.50/hour until 5pm, and are paid through the Parkmobile app.

Other transit options in town

Uber and Lyft both operate in and around Charlottesville
Lime and Bird electric scooters
UVA’s short-term bike share (on campus)
Zipcar for short-term car rentals (on campus)

About

The National Student Electronic Music Event (N_SEME) was created by and for students as a forum for peers to share ideas, collaborate, and expand the boundaries of the electronic music field. This year features Aaron Dilloway, a celebrated experimental/noise artist, whose music includes eight-track tape loops, vocal improvisation through contact microphones, found sounds, and field recordings. In addition to a concert and talk by Aaron, the festival includes concerts, papers, sound art installations, a DIY audio workshop, and a radio broadcast. N_SEME @ UVA is an inclusive artistic and academic environment, incorporating electroacoustic composition with or without instruments, DIY approaches to music-making, experimenting with instrument design, and participating in many forms of intermedia collaboration.

Staff

If you have general questions about N_SEME or aren’t sure who to contact, email rlb9fd [at] virginia [dot] edu.

Executive Director

Becky Brown - rlb9fd [at] virginia [dot] edu

Programming Director

Heather Mease - hm5dd [at] virginia [dot] edu

Technical Director

Ben Robertson - blr5ed [at] virginia [dot] edu

Paper Chair and Multi-channel Adjudication Contact

Eli Stine - ems5te [at] virginia [dot] edu

Installations Director

Alex Christie - acc3xp [at] virginia [dot] edu