Music Technology Committee: Jordan Munson, Brian Archinal, Greg Beyer, Stuart Gerber, Jeff Herriott and Trevor Saint
Redefining Percussion: An Electroacoustic Culture
Technology Showcase Concert
Saturday, 11:00 a.m.

Brian Archinal	Greg Beyer
Jeff Herriott	Trevor Saint
Jordan Munson	Stuart Gerber

Brian Archinal was the first prize-winner at the 2011 Gaudeamus International Interpreters Competition, a historical institution for contemporary music. He currently lives in Basel, Switzerland and studies at the Musikhochschule with Christian Dierstein. In 2010, he was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Grant and in 2011 the Swiss Government’s prestigious FCS/ESKAS Fellowship. Before he received these grants, he completed a master’s degree at The University of California San Diego studying with Steven Schick. At UCSD, he released his debut CD entitled Self  | Space, an exploration into the idea of a “solo percussion album.”

Jordan Munson is a Lecturer in Music and Arts Technology at IUPUI, as well as an Associate of the Donald Tavel Arts and Technology Research Center.  He is a musician, composer, and multimedia artist whose work explores the boundaries of music's relationship to modern technology.  His works for multimedia and percussion have been premiered at institutions such as the University of Kentucky, the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD). As a video artist, he has shown his work at the New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival and the electronic music conferences SEAMUS and ICMC.  As a performer, Munson has performed alongside artists such as Matmos, R. Luke DuBois, and Bora Yoon.  His research includes the development of new multimedia projects for Internet2 and the use of wireless devices in computer music performance and composition.  Munson holds degrees from Indiana University (M.S.M.T.) and the University of Kentucky (B.M.).

Jeff Herriott is a composer whose music focuses on aural shapes that change at the edges of perception with sounds that gently shift and bend.  His compositions often explore repetition with subtle variations in gestural pace, instrumental character, and tuning, featuring extensive use of electronics.  Recent and upcoming projects include a bass drum solo for Patti Cudd, a glockenspiel solo for Trevor Saint (premiered PASIC Focus Day in 2010), and an evening-length work combining percussion ensemble, electronics, video, and Due East (Erin Lesser, flute; Greg Beyer, percussion).  Jeff is currently an Associate Professor of Music at the University of Wisconsin.

Hailed a “fine percussionist” in the New York Times, Greg Beyer won second prize at the 2002 Geneva International Music Competition. Of primary importance to him is his project, Arcomusical – an endeavor that involves ethno-musicological research on the berimbau and other related musical bows, and the active composition and commission of new works for this ancient instrument.  Beyer has given solo performances and masterclasses throughout the United States, Europe, South America and China.  He is an Associate Professor of Percussion at Northern Illinois University and endorses Bosphorus cymbals, Innovative Percussion sticks and mallets, Pearl/Adams percussion instruments, and Evans Drumheads.

Trevor Saint performs music that elicits personal correspondence. His classical repertoire focuses on social, natural, theatrical and sonic concerns. He is active in progressing the use of the glockenspiel as a solo instrument, commissioning and performing the first solo works written for the extended-range instrument. Trevor has commissioned works by Jeff Herriott, Matthew Burtner, James Romig, Christopher Burns, Thomas DeLio and Stuart Saunders Smith. Beyond classical music, Trevor recently started a self-titled solo project of vocals and glockenspiel. His first EP, pretty/angry songs will be available in Winter 2011.

Lauded as having “consummate virtuosity” by the New York Times, Stuart Gerber has performed extensively on national and international stages both as a soloist and chamber musician. He has worked with such noted composers as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Murail, Steve Reich and John Luther Adams and has recorded for Mode, Bridge, Telarc, Code Blue, Capstone and Albany Records as well as the Stockhausen-Verlag. Stuart is currently Associate Professor of Music at Georgia State University in Atlanta, co-artistic director of the contemporary chamber ensemble Bent Frequency, and represents one half of the internationally acclaimed piano-percussion duo Ensemble Sirius.

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