2019
Spring 2019
Drift
Two Bass Clarinets and Piano
2018
Fall 2018
Ping & Peal
Stereo Acousmatic/Finger Cymbals and Stereo Acousmatic
2018
Fall 2018
Cryptomnesia
Tenor Saxophone and Percussion
2018
Spring 2018
Earmarks
Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Piano
2018
Spring 2018
The Notes Between The Notes
Voice and Piano
2017
Fall 2017
The Earth Shall Soon Dissolve Like Snow
Stereo Fixed Media
Beckwith Recital Hall, NDSU, Fargo, ND
10/05/2019 12:06 AM
I realized in February or March of this year that I hadn’t been to any conferences during the 18-19 academic year. This bugged me. It’s hard to maintain a dialogue with other composers when you’re sitting in your office all the time. Of course, the Spring semester was filled with creating a composition lecture series […]
07/01/2019 04:20 PM
It’s already July!? It’s already halfway through the summer semester! The spring semester has been my busiest semester as a professor. Let’s recap: At NDSU: I had a studio of 6 composers, 4 undergrads and 2 grads. I mentored the Freshman Theory II Composition Projects. I oversaw the Sophomore Theory IV Composition Projects. I taught […]
05/12/2019 06:12 PM
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be presenting Cloud Music: Audience participation in electronic music , at the the 2019 Vu 3 Symposium in Park City, Utah! Cloud Music is a work for audience participation and cloud computing. Audience members load a website on their mobile device, specify values, and then submit those values to […]
04/02/2019 03:22 PM
The New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYCEMF) is always a fun time with great music and incredible people. This year they’re hosting the International Computer Music Conference as well, and I’m pleased to announce that Tempest in a Teakettle, which I presented there in 2017, will be returning to the program for this year […]
02/18/2019 04:53 AM
Dear Kyle Vanderburg, I am pleased to inform you that your work: REVERIE OF SOLITUDEwas selected for the third edition of Diffrazioni – Firenze Multimedia Festival – March 26-31, 2019 sound, light, art, technology, neuroscience, nanotechnology, robotics. in the category: ACOUSMATIC Congratulations! Best regards, Alfonso Belfiore
11/27/2018 03:59 PM
It’s November, National Novel Writing Month, which means it’s time for another tape piece!* *For some of you this might seem to be a non-sequitur, so let me explain. While I was in Norman, our group would have a creativity pact every November. Walter (writer of some of my best program notes) would participate in […]
10/22/2018 02:29 AM
Last week, Pipe Dreams–a piece I started writing in 2009, received its second premiere, this time by the NDSU Wind Symphony. Second premiere? Am I even allowed to do that? Well, I did. Pipe Dreams started out as the last thing I’d write as an undergrad, and the first thing I’d work on as a […]
09/19/2018 01:25 PM
My parents and I watch a lot of procedural crime dramas. Law and Orders of all varieties, NCIS, CSI, The Closer, and recently CK and I discovered Crossing Lines on Netflix. But my parents are obsessed with Criminal Minds. It’s basically all they watch. They’re either watching Criminal Minds or going to Menards. In episode […]
09/01/2018 10:46 PM
CK and I agreed that we wouldn’t travel much this summer. Maybe a conference, visit some family, but no 25-state road trip and no taking 300 high schoolers to Europe. That idea was short lived, because here’s what we ended up doing: I’m going to paste a bunch of pictures, since I couldn’t do that […]
07/02/2018 03:29 PM
Earmarks was commissioned by the Boreas Ensemble at North Dakota State University, and despite my best efforts, it took on a vaguely political theme. In the early stages of writing this piece, I shared online the idea of writing a work for piano, clarinet, and saxophone where the piano played for as long as the […]
