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Join us for a final afternoon of New Music at OSU Music Department featuring guest composer Allison Adah Johnson.

Dr. Johnson will premiere new works with the Ensmble Sonic Possibilities

Allison Adah Johnson, composer and musician, received degrees in music from Stanford University (BA), CalArts (MFA), and UC San Diego (PhD), and studied gamelan with Djoko Walujo and with Suhardi in Surakarta, Java. She currently teaches music history and ethnomusicology at Soka University in Aliso Viejo, California, and was recently a postdoctoral fellow and researcher at Occidental College where she taught in the Music, Asian Studies, and Cultural Studies departments.

Her compositions and multi-media works have been performed at the New West Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, the New Directions in Asian-American Music Festival, the California Biennial,  the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, Feminist Theory & Music, La Jolla Athenaeum, Parallel 66, and Frau Musica (nova) Festival in Cologne, among others, and she has received grants, awards, and residencies from American Composers Forum, the American Music Center, the Luce Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, Centrum Arts, and the Getty Foundation. Her theater collaborations have been performed at the Berlin Volksbühne, the Colony Theatre in Burbank, and Occidental College’s Keck Theatre.

The concert with also feature music by John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Sila Shaman and Dana Reason

Sonic Possibilities is Bob Brudvig, Sila Cevikce Shaman, Michael Coolen and Dana Reason

Join us for an exciting evening of music and discussion!

Greg Kise-Intellectual “Property?”

The freedom of our intellectual commons is being challenged in courtrooms around the world. From the RIAA and MPAA to ThePirateBay.com to sampling and mashups, this challenge is mostly happening out of site of the majority of citizens, yet it is central to the idea of our very freedom as artists and creators (if not freedom itself). Greg will host a wide-ranging discussion in which we challenge our pre-conceptions and explore the very notion of ideas as “property.”

Sunday March 29 - Oregon State University: Benton Hall Room 303

$10 Suggested Donation- OSU Students and Children under 18 FREE—

For More information: Contact Series Director Dana Reason @ danareason@gmail.com or

call 541 230 1401

Featuring:
Visiting Artist and Composer: Benjamin Carson, Ph.D from the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Accclaimed Jazz Artists: Sila Cevikce-Shaman (piano) and Dave Storrs (drums and percussion)

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Benjamin Carson, Ph.D

Composer Benjamin Carson teaches composition and the psychology of music at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Carson writes experimental music informed by his own studies in the perception of rhythm and form. His music makes use disjunct use of traditional tonalities, voice ambiguity, a wide-ranging rhythmic language, and a quietly skewed dynamic range that sometimes blurs the boundary between intentional musical sounds and incidental environmental noises.

In Anahistoric (2004), for piano, percussion, and consumer-model electronic keyboards, the result is an illusion-like feeling, with one perception being traded for another: chaos and randomness often yields to a sudden feeling that direction and purpose has been present all along. Writing about Carson’s piano music in the journal “Open Space” (2003) Christopher Williams has said that Carson’s music makes a kind paradox of keys and tonal resolutions, and of the traditional relationships between polyphonic voices.  As keys change and overlap, and as pairs of voices oppose one another, “each element in the false dichotomy defines and becomes the other” so that “we have the opportunity and responsibility to navigate our [own] uniquely useful paths.”

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Dave Storrs and Sila Cevikce-Shaman: : The musicians will talk about their process and perform various pieces.

Dave Storrs is a composer, improvisor and percussionist currently collaborating with various artists in Oregon. He runs an independent music label called Louie Records. Storrs has recorded and toured extensively in the United States for over 30 years.

Sila Cevikce-Shaman is a pianist and composer. Critics have described Cevikce’s work as: “Intelligent, Inventive and Free-swinging.” She currently teaches Jazz History and Composition in the Music Department at OSU.

Sunday March 29th, 2pm

Featuring Guest Composer Benjamin Carson. Dr. Carson visits us from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he teaches composition and the psychology of music!

Sila Cevikce Shaman(piano) and Dave Storrs (drums) will be performing various compositions and improvisations!

For more information contact:

Dana Reason- Artistic Director

danareason@gmail.com

Creating Economic and Agricultural Sustainability

Cynthia Kapple – “Community Based Agriculture and the Meaning of Supporting Local”
Cynthia Kapple started out in modern dance but now runs Midway Farms in Albany. Her work with the land moves beyond the notion of organic and is about working with the human and natural environment. At the age of eight, Cynthia Kapple started selling organically grown produce from their family garden to help them make ends meet. She pulled her little red wagon of fresh produce from neighbor to neighbor. “I remember the joy and excitement as the neighbors called each other when they saw me coming. They didn’t want to miss out.” In 1998, Cynthia started working 2.7 acres to supply her family and farm stand with fresh produce, cut flowers and eggs.

Carlos Martins-Filho - “Market for Organs.” “There exists a severe and growing imbalance between the demand and supply of cadaveric and live human organs available for transplantation. As a result of this imbalance thousands of people die each year in the United States while waiting for a needed organ. From an economic perspective the cause of this imbalance is clear: any payment to organ donors or their surviving family is prohibited and punishable by law, producing a price of zero for human organs. In his talk, Dr. Martins-Filho will argue that monetary incentives can play an important role in reducing the imbalance between supply and demand for human organs, potentially saving thousands of lives each year.” Dr. Martins-Filho is a Professor of Economics at Oregon State University.

3400 SW Willamette Ave

Corvallis, OR

Suggested $10 Donation

OSU Students are Free with I.D.

For more information contact: 541 230 1401

Between the Cracks: A Forum for Music, Science, Art, and Ideas
January 25th, 2:00pm
3400 SW Willamette Ave. Corvallis, OR 97333
(541) 230-1401
$10 Suggested Donation
Please RSVP by January 23rd due to limited space.

Jennifer Bachman – The Creative Mind
Jennifer Bachman is getting her doctorate in Science Education at OSU, specializing in Free-Choice Learning. Although “dull and uncreative herself”, she is particularly interested in how social, personal, and institutional factors impact the development of creativity. In previous lives Jennifer was a remote sensing analyst in Portland and a community college physical science instructor in Bellingham. She has a B.S. in physics from UCSD and a M.S. in geoscience from UCLA. She home educates her two children, one husband, and assorted animals.

Michael Coolen – The Pattern which Connects: Music, Mathematics, and Creativity
Michael Coolen is on the Music Faculty here at OSU, and he is an ethnomusicologist specializing in African music. His research and publication has focused primarily on the griot tradition of West Africa and the cultural and musical connections between the Senegambia and the American colonies. He led a variety of African and Latin percussion ensembles (including a steel drum ensemble) for several years around the region, as well as in Denmark.

Speakers/Performers are invited to discuss and answer questions from audience after presentation.
Light refreshments will be served.

Winter/Spring 2009

January 25

Jennifer Bachman - The Creative Mind.

Jennifer is an (ABD) doctoral student in Science Education at Oregon State University.

Michael Coolen – The Pattern which Connects: Music, Mathematics and Creativity.

Michael Coolen is a Professor of Music at Oregon State University.

February 22

Carlos Martins-Filho- “Market for Organs.”

Carlos Martins-Filho is a Professor of Economics at Oregon State University.

Cynthia Kapple - Moving the Earth: Transitioning from Contemporary Dance to Operating Midway Farms.

Cynthia Kapple is the owner and master gardener of Midway Farms.

March 29 - Concert to Take Place at Oregon State Music Department Room 303
Dave Storrs and Sila Cevikce-Shaman: : The musicians will talk about their process and perform various pieces.

Dave Storrs is a composer, improvisor and percussionist currently collaborating with various artists in Oregon. He runs an independent music label called Louie Records.

Pianist and Composer.Critics have described Shaman’s work as: “Intelligent, Inventive and Free-swinging.” She currently teaches in the Music Department at OSU.

Benjamin Carson, Ph.D

Composer Benjamin Carson teaches composition and the psychology of music at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is a visiting scholar at Columbia University. Carson writes experimental music informed by his own studies in the perception of rhythm and form. His music makes use disjunct use of traditional tonalities, voice ambiguity, a wide-ranging rhythmic language, and a quietly skewed dynamic range that sometimes blurs the boundary between intentional musical sounds and incidental environmental noises.

In Anahistoric (2004), for piano, percussion, and consumer-model electronic keyboards, the result is an illusion-like feeling, with one perception being traded for another: chaos and randomness often yields to a sudden feeling that direction and purpose has been present all along. Writing about Carson’s piano music in the journal “Open Space” (2003) Christopher Williams has said that Carson’s music makes a kind paradox of keys and tonal resolutions, and of the traditional relationships between polyphonic voices.  As keys change and overlap, and as pairs of voices oppose one another, “each element in the false dichotomy defines and becomes the other” so that “we have the opportunity and responsibility to navigate our [own] uniquely useful paths.”

April 26
Greg Kise: This Ain’t Your Grandaddy’s Depression
The proximal and distal causes of the current American Economic Crisis.

Greg Kise is a proponent of the Austrian School of economics and Peak Oil. He has a M.S. in Microbiology from the University of Washington.

Flo Leibowitz and Dana Reason: Improvising and Creative Identity: A Dialogue.

Flo Leibowitz is a Professor of Philosophy at Oregon State University. Dana Reason is a pianist, composer and improvisor currently teaching in the Music Department at OSU. She has a Ph.D from the University of California, San Diego.

May 31 - Concert to Take Place at Oregon State University Music Department Room 303

Allison Johnson:  L.A. Composer in Residence. Featuring Premiere of New Work.

Allison Adah Johnson, composer and musician, received degrees in music from Stanford University (BA), CalArts (MFA), and UC San Diego (PhD), and studied gamelan with Djoko Walujo and with Suhardi in Surakarta, Java. She currently teaches music history and ethnomusicology at Soka University in Aliso Viejo, California, and was recently a postdoctoral fellow and researcher at Occidental College where she taught in the Music, Asian Studies, and Cultural Studies departments.

Sonic Possibilities Ensemble: Works by Allison Johnson, Michael Coolen, Dana Reason, Sila Cevikce, and more!!!

Sonic Possibilities is a New Ensemble in Residence at OSU. The ensemble is committed to new and creative works for voice, instruments and technology. Members include: Michael Coolen, Sila Cevikce, Bob Brudvig, Sam Kincaid and Dana Reason.

Due to Limited Space
Please RSVP two days before event

All Events start at 2:00pm
3400 SW Willamette Ave
Corvallis, OR 97333
541 230 1401
10$ Suggested Donation

Speaker/Performers are invited to discuss and answer questions from audience after presentation.

Light refreshments will be served.

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