DXARTS (UW) – Past Concerts

Francis Dhomont — Objets retrouvés ("Refound objects") (1996)
Francis Dhomont — AvatArsSon (1998)
Francis Dhomont — Novars (1989)
Francis Dhomont — Phonurgie (1998)

Program TBD.

About SPAM New Media Festival 2023: This year we launch SPAM, a Seattle based experimental arts festival which brings together …

Juan Pampin — Embosquecerse

An expansive collective showcase of the current graduate cohort of DXARTS (Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media) at the Univer…

Annette Vande Gorne — Vox Alia ("Affetti," "Cathedrals," & "Vox Intima")
François Bayle — Persona
Francis Dhomont — Somme toute ("All in all")
Annette Vande Gorne — Haïkus: New Year's Day

Marcin Pączkowski — Here comes a candle to light you to bed (world premiere)
Afroditi Psarra — Ventriloquist Ontology (featuring Carolina Marín, movement)
Breana Tavaglione — The Woods Enclose (world premiere)
Wei Yang — if I keep recalling it, something had to change... (world premiere; featuring Murphy Janssen, drums)

Nature recordist/sound designer Jeff Rice’s sound portraits frame an evening of Ambisonic sound by DXARTS composers & associated researchers, drawing the listener through known & unknown soundscapes.

The University of Washington School of Music and The Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) present original music and new works by faculty composers and visiting ensembles.

The UW School of Music and the Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media present this series highlighting works by faculty composers, graduate students, alumni, and visiting ensembles.

Edgard Varèse – Poème électronique
Francis Dhomont – Novars
Richard Karpen – The Other

University of Washington faculty improv band Indigo Mist and special guests Ngô Trà My (Vietnam) and Jos Zwaanengburg (Netherlands) present an evening of experimental and improvised music.

Joël-François Durand – La mesure des choses mvt. IV "La mesure du temps" (world premiere)
Huck Hodge – Fracture (world premiere)
Sofia Gubaidulina – Rumore e Silenzio

Patients suffering from motor disability improvise with professional musicians in this performance led by composers and a neuroscientist.

An evening of performative experiments by DXARTS PhD students: Riah Buchanan, Chanee Choi w/ Sarah Lisette Chiesa, Cameron Fraser, R.M-TNKRT, Breana Tavaglione and Rihards Vitols.

Morton Subotnick – A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur (8-channel tape)
James Wenlock – Three Changes (Ambisonic soundtrack)
Clayton Kinney – Splang (Ambisonic soundtrack)
Daniel Peterson – Vanishing Portals (Ambisonic soundtrack)
Wei Yang – Panta Rhei (Ambisonic soundtrack)
Ewa Trębacz – Inanna Descending (Ambisonic sound and variable ensemble)

Groundbreaking new works and modern classics by faculty and guest composers.

A concert featuring classic and more recent works from the "live plus electronics" genre.

Daniel Webbon – An infinite number of others, for string quartet
Wei Yang – ….verse…. for cello and piano
Marcin Pączkowski – Drum Memory, for percussion and interactive sound processing
Cameron Fraser – Chatra, electro-acoustic percussion
Daniel Peterson – Spun-Glass Garden
Daniel Peterson & Adam S. Hogan – Foresta (open wood)

An evening of new works of sonic and visual art exploring state-of-the-art technologies as instruments of poetry and artistic discovery.

Groundbreaking new works and modern classics by faculty and guest composers.