~WINNERS~

Announcing the 20th Anniversary SEAMUS
Electroclips Project Results

On
behalf of the Board of Directors of the Society for
Electroacoustic Music in the United States, We wish to
congratulate the winners of the 20th Anniversary Electroclips
Contest.  Their works received the top number of votes
during the November election and will automatically be
included on the SEAMUS 2006 National Conference in Eugene,
Oregon.

J. Anthony
Allen:

Rhapsody

McGregor Boyle:

august occasion

Ivica Ico
Bukvic:

All Your Sprache Are Belong To
Strauss

Christopher
Cook:

I Started

Samuel Pluta:

Russell Wields His Presidential
Gavel

Christopher Weise:

It may be just a
rumor

Maurice
Wright:

AndJon

The
board wishes to thank ALL those who participated, and made
this project a huge success.  If you have not listened to
them, you may still do so at http://www.seamusonline.org/ by logging into
the members area.

Once again, congratulations to
all!

Kurt Stallman appointed Editor of

SEAMUS Newsletter

The
SEAMUS Board of Directors has appointed Kurt Stallman as the
next Editor of the SEAMUS Newsletter. Kurt brings a wealth of
organizational experience to this job, and he has many
creative ideas for improving our newsletter. As was announced
when we the job description was posted several months ago, the
Newsletter will be in electronic (pdf) format beginning with
its next issue. If you have ideas for the Newsletter, or
newsworthy items you would like to submit, please feel free to
contact Kurt by email at this address: SEAMUS Newsletter
<[email-masked]>

2005 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission
Award Recipients

On behalf of ASCAP and the entire SEAMUS membership ,
the Board of Directors would like to recognize and
congratulate our 2005 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Award
recipients

Ben Hackbarth • 1st
Prize
Ed Martin • 2nd Prize

honorable
mentions:

Brad Decker
Joo Won Park

SEAMUS 2006 National Conference Call
for Works: Submission Guidelines/Form

The
Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States,
invites submissions of electro-acoustic music with and without
performers, works with video, soundscape compositions, and
other types of related works, as well as papers and panel
discussions for its 2006 National Conference. The SEAMUS
National COnferences are open to both members and non-members
alike

The
2006 Conference WebSite

The
2006 Conference Guidelines and Downloadable submission
form.

Innova Recordings has just released Barry Schrader's
new CD, Beyond. This album features four of Schrader's recent
electro-acoustic music works: First Spring, Beyond, Duke’s
Tune (the first and only musical work based on a melody
composed by a potbellied pig), and all three movements of
Death: Before Death, Into Death, and After
Death.

Regarding the music on this CD, pioneering
electro-acoustic music composer Bebe Barron proclaims “This
music conjures up a whirlwind of emotion from some primeval
source that permeates the listener with awe.”

Click
the CD image above for more information

2005 National Conference
Sponsors

SEAMUS would like to gratefully acknowledge the
generous support of Genelec and Sweetwater
Music Technology for sponsoring the 2005 SEAMUS National
Conference:

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SEAMUS Member Focus : Krist McGarity

Kristi McGarity is a graduate student in music
composition with a background in both acoustic and electronic
media. She earned a degree in oboe performance from the
University of Michigan and a Master of Music degree from the
University of Texas, where she has studied composition with
Russell Pinkston, Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, and Kevin
Puts. Awards and honors include first prize in the 2001
ASCAP/SEAMUS Commission Competition for her electronic piece
Mystery and a prize in the Athena 2001 Festival
Competition for her choral piece Three E.E. Cummings
Poems, recorded by the Murray State University Concert
Choir on their CD A Choral Tour of Italy. She was
selected as a finalist in the 2002 ASCAP Morton Gould Young
Composer Awards for her soprano/cello piece Key West,
and her piece How the Hell Are You Feeling? for
violin and guitar has been recorded by Duo46 on the Summit
Records label. Her teaching experience includes a teaching
assistantship in the University of Texas electronic music
studios and electronic music classes at Austin Community
College. Along with her work as a composer, Kristi has played
oboe in UT's New Music Ensemble and she keeps a full studio of
oboe students.

mcgaritymusic.com

The SEAMUS MEMBER FOCUS is an ongoing
news feature of SEAMUSONLINE. which randomly spotlights
individuals from it's fellowship. Members are asked to keep
their webspaces current...you could very likely be
next!

Wendy Carlos receives 18th Annual
SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement Award.

SEAMUS wishes to congratulate Wendy Carlos as the
recipient of the 18th Annual Seamus Lifetime Achievement Award
on April 15th. 2005 full
story

From Robert A. Moog:

It's an honor and a
privilege to pay homage to Wendy Carlos, and to celebrate her
appointment of the 2005 SEAMUS Lifetime Achievement
Award.

It was my good fortune to meet Wendy some four
decades ago, when she was a student of Vladimir Ussachevsky at
the Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center. Over the years
as her areas of expertise broadened and her place of honor at
the forefront of synthesis and electronic music production
became widely acknowledged, she always set the highest
standards, - both musical and technical, - through her keen
esthetic sense and meticulous attention to
detail.

Wendy always seemed to be the first to grasp
the musical potential of new electronic music gear and, at the
same time, to accept responsibility for developing the
discipline necessary to use the new instruments to produce
music of the highest quality. The unprecedented popularity of
Switched-on Bach, which Wendy released at a time of great
ferment in our popular musical culture, was at once strikingly
innovative and of breathtakingly high musical quality. I
remember the occasion on which Switched-on Bach was first
played in public. It was at a technical session of the Audio
Engineering Society in the fall of 1968, just a few weeks
before the record went on sale. The entire roomful of audio
engineering professionals gave Wendy an emotional and
enthusiastic standing ovation. And a short time after that,
Switched-on Bach was on its way to becoming one of the
best-selling classical albums of all time.

With each
succeeding release, Wendy continued to scale new heights of
technical sophistication, creativity, and musical excellence.
As tape has given way to hard disk recording and digital
synthesis has arrived on the music technology scene, Wendy has
continued to develop techniques, set standards, and produce
recorded music that is a joy and an inspiration to countless
thousands of listeners around the
world.

- Bob
Moog

Every year, the Board of Directors selects the
recipient of the SEAMUS Award, in recognition of lifetime
achievement and contribution to the art and craft of
electro-acoustic music. The award is
presented at the SEAMUS National Conference.

The 17
previous award winners are listed below. Click on the
recipient names for a bio:

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1987

Vladimir Ussachevsky

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1988

Les Paul

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1989

Mario
Davidovsky

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1990

Otto
Luening

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1991

Robert
Moog

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1993

John
Chowning

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1994

Max
Mathews

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1995

Milton
Babbitt

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1996

Charles
Dodge

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1997

Louis
(post.) and Bebe Barron

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1998

Morton
Subotnick

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1999

Pauline
Oliveros

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2000

Paul
Lansky

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2001

Herbert
Brün

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2002

Don
Buchla

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2003

Jon
Appleton

2004

Barry
Vercoe

Davidovsky's Synchronisms No. 11 and
12 to be premiered at SEAMUS 2006

I'm
very pleased to announce that, as part of our celebration of
the 20th anniversary of the founding of SEAMUS, the Society
for ELectro-Acoustic Music in the United States has to joined
a consortium of institutions that are commissioning the
renowned composer Mario Davidovsky to write two new
electroacoustic works in honor of his 70th birthday. SEAMUS
will contribute the standard fee of $2,000 required to join
the consortium, but it will also serve as the umbrella
organization for the commission, coordinating various aspects
of the project and collecting and dispersing the funds. In
return, the Davidovsky commission will be officially connected
to our 20th anniversary celebration, and the world premieres
of the new works will take place at our national conference.
Other institutions who have joined the consortium to date are
The University of Oregon, Brandeis University, Columbia
University, Harvard University, University of Missouri Kansas
City, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Rice
University, The University of Texas at Austin, University of
North Texas.

The two new pieces will be Synchronisms
No. 11 and 12, respectively. Synchronisms No. 11 will be for
contrabass, and written for Donald Palma. Synchronisms No. 12
will be for bass clarinet, and written for Allen Blustine.
Davidovsky plans to complete the first work in time for a
world premiere at the 2006 SEAMUS National
Conference.

I am personally very excited about the fact
that SEAMUS will be taking the lead in this important
commission, which will result in the creation of two new works
of historical significance. Without question, these pieces
will be published, recorded, and performed numerous times.
They will be reviewed in places like the New York Times; they
will be in every major music library; they will be analyzed by
theorists and scholars. I cannot imagine a more appropriate
and significant way to officially mark the 20th anniversary of
the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United
States.

Sincerely yours,

Russell Pinkston,
President
SEAMUS

SEAMUS in the MIX

SEAMUS's 20th anniversary was recently recognized in
the May edition of Mix Magazine. For anyone who may have
missed it in print, the article is still featured on
MIXonline: go here

Music From SEAMUS, Vol
13

The 13th edition in the Music From SEAMUS CD series has
been released. Taken from works presented at the 2003 National
Conference at ASU, this compilation includes Mark Applebaum,
John Appleton, Larry Austin, Benjamin Broening, Konstantinos
Karathanasis, Elainie Lillios, James Mobberley, Noel Paul and
Russell Pinkston. click here to
order.

2003 SEAMUS Membership Survey
Results

The
Society recently conducted a survey among its membership to
determine the priorities and needs the society must address in
the coming years. Top level results of that survey can be seen
here

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SEAMUS Member
Releases

Eric Lyon • Ex Cathedra (centaur)

Scott Smallwood • Electrotherapy (deep listening)

David Ozab • Tempo Ficta (cdbaby.com)

Michael Rhoades •
Dream Travels and the 18th Rule (Perception Factory)

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your
CD releases here)

Hosting a National
Conference

The
annual SEAMUS National Conference is the cornerstone ofhe
organization's yearly schedule. If you and your institution
are interested in hosting one of these prestigious events, click
here to download the SEAMUS National Conference Handbook
for guidelines.