Where: Roy Barnett Recital Hall, UBC School of Music, 6361 Memorial Rd., Vancouver, BC (map)
When: Thursday, December 1st, 8pm

From the invitation:

Sonic UBC Laptop Sounds and Sensors presents the Laptop Orchestra, laptop ensembles with synthetic sound controlled by a variety of sensors in live performance.

Watch as performers combine the body scan of a Kinect with Wii controllers to create, shape, and move sounds in 8 channel surround sound. See the unique interplay of 3 digital instruments, each consisting of a trackpad and an accelerometer watch and interfaced through a computer network enabling each performer to take over control of the others’ instruments. Behold the amazing transformations of sound as a percussionist plays a cajon with a variety of sensors attached to it. Experience the wonders of a digital choir, performed on iPods and iPhones.

Featuring the composing/computer coding/performing efforts of Alyssa Aska, Kieran Coulter, Michelle Hillier, Ryan Noakes, Martin Ritter, Jodi Spacek, and Johnty Wang, with some extra assistance from Keith Hamel, Bob Pritchard, Nicolas d’Alessandro, and Auro Pon, and Jeremy Lawi & Naithan Bosse as guest percussionist and guest digital chorister respectively.

Admission: FREE!!!

Date: Wednesday, May 25th
Time: 8pm-9:30pm
Place: Beall Hall, University of Oregon

From the invitation:
The Oregon Composers Forum will present an evening of new music by student composers at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall. Admission is free. The selections range from solo piano to string quartet to unaccompanied SSATBB choir, with small chamber ensembles involving woodwinds and strings in between: “Fishing at Dawn” for string quartet; “Tango Suite”; “This Queen” for English horn and soprano; “Flight From Crimson Marble,” and “3 Myths” for solo piano, “Always More Feathers” for alto flute, lever harp, and soprano, to name a few. The composers are Evan C. Paul, Wesley Price, Diana Rosenblum, Shaffer McGee, Damien Bradley, Brandon Rumsey, Charlie Gurke, Krista Abrahamson, and Alyssa Aska.