Doctorate in Contemporary Music - Bowling Green State University

We do in fact have a new doctor in the house this spring 🥳🥳🥳 everyone give a big hoot and holler for DOCTOR Shannon Lotti!!

Do not fear, she will make guest appearances in some projects we have planned for next year 😌🙏🏾 stay tuned!

and CONGRATS SHANNON! 🎉

Imagine taking a super cool group of musicians (students and faculty) to NY for some stellar performances!! this summer we're going off campus to share some contemporary music with audiences outside Mid-America 😝

classes are over, let the music COMMENCE 🔥 our cohort wishes you an inspiring and artistic summer!

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Haley and Nia took on Eastern Illinois University this week - TWO RECITALS 💥 lessons 💥 a masterclass 💥 timbral mapping 💥 and an off-brand pizzookie that was still pretty darn good 😏

up next SAWDUST!!! 🍎 see y'all in the big apple

TALK ABOUT A SUCCESSFUL PORTRAIT CONCERT 🤩 huge thank you to for flying out, providing, and coaching all this wonderful music! Congratulations to all our wonderful performers and Will who hosted a mid-concert Q&A

(and many thanks to those who helped with pics, for our full cohort participatory events it's SO appreciated 🫶🏼)

Join us for the second installment of our composer portrait series featuring the works of tyson gholston davis!!! This concert will feature a series solo works, duos, and a live Q&A during the intermission 🤩 make sure to mark your calendars folks, you won't want to miss this one!

Check out the link in our bio to see the program and access the livestream

HERE YE HERE YE ‼️‼️‼️ I present to you the FIRST EVER DMA clinic featuring presentations from our very own Jacob Koch & Liam Battle.

Prepare to be full of knowledge and food (bring ur own lunch)

Check out their abstracts below:

JACOB KOCH - "The Table of Time"
This presentation focuses on how to count and play rhythms within a consistent metric framework. These two ideas of counting and playing are expressed best through different methods of vocalizing and mentally visualizing the table of time in order to realize good rhythmic performances. Attendees will be invited to count and clap along with me as I demonstrate various methods of counting and playing rhythms, such as characterizing different rhythmic divisions by using animal names instead of different numbers in playing scales in different increasingly fast subdivisions against a 60 bpm metronome. Attendees need not bring instruments.

LIAM BATTLE - "Timbre and Labor: Theory and Praxis"

This presentation uses analysis and performance to demonstrate the value of a theory of timbre that involves consideration of musical labor. Ligeti's Atmospheres (1968) is analyzed in dialogue with Jennifer Iverson's writing on the role of electronic composition's influence on Ligeti's acoustic writing. This analysis shows that the key to the emergence of timbre is the labor of the orchestra, which is derived from the reified labor of the electronic music studio. This theory is then backed up with a performance of Bahar Royaee's Tombstone (2017), a score which is imminently concerned with the performer's labor.

BE THERE OR 🅱️

ONE MORE HOOT AND HOLLER FOR OUR VERY OWN FOR THIS MONUMENTAL ACHIEVEMENT!!! 🥳🔥‼️🚨 congrats Katy, we're so proud of you!!