EMMA: Electronic, Microtonal, Multimedia, Algorithmic

New music by John Mallia, the director of NEC's Electronic Music Studio, and his faculty colleagues Katarina Miljkovic and Stratis Minakakis, retired faculty Robert Ceely, who founded NEC's original Electronic Music Studio in the 1960s; along with two guest sound artists, John Holland, former director of the Sound Studios at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Marc McNulty, visiting lecturer on Sound Art at MassArt.

Ceely Ontogeny
for fixed media

Holland from Symbiotica:
A Cross-cultural Mixup
for fixed media
Songbirds of Europe and North America
New and Ancient Voices

Mallia Stray Signals with Sarah Brady, flute, and the composer on electronics

McNulty/Mallia open-closed || : open-open: || performed by the composers

Miljkovic The Branch and Bench performed by the composer on laptop

Minakakis Post-Echoi
With Aaron Likness in the role of piano concertante, and flute soloist Erika Boysen, the composer conducts an ensemble consisting of Jay Hutchinson, clarinet; Diamanda La Berge Dramm and Robert Anemone, violin; Mathilde Geismar-Roussel, viola; Drew Comstock, cello; and Peter Ferretti, double bass.

This first production under the banner of EMMA—representing music that is Electronic, Microtonal, Multimedia, and/or Algorithmic—will be followed throughout the year by lectures from visiting artists, and a spring concert featuring work by the pioneering sound artist Phil Niblock.