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Andrew Kaiser

 

Selected Work 

Aetheric Halo engraved in the Etheric chamber of the Moon Ark, http://moonarts.org/about/

03/2016 Trondheim Biennale for Art & Technology / Norway
09/2017 Carnegie Museum of Natural History / Pittsburgh
09/2017 Thrival Festival / Pittsburgh
10/2017 International Council of Museums / ICOM NATHIST 
11/2017 Galeria Miejska bwa in Bydgoszcz / Poland
09/2018 5th Int’l Festival of NanoArt / Heraklion, Crete
10/2018 New Worlds Conference / Austin, Texas
12/2018 CMUThink Bay Area / Palo Alto, California
06/2019 Museum of Fine Arts / Budapest, Hungary
10/2019 Miller Institute of Contemporary Art / Pittsburgh
11/2019 Matsudo International Science Art Festival / Japan

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2017 – Member of design team for METI Institute, in partnership with the Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) and the Spanish music festival Sónar, transmitted the first radio signals to GJ273b, orbiting Luyten's Star. https://www.sonarcalling.com/en/

2016. Rotterdam Transmission. Composed broadcast  to Andromeda Galaxy  composed and broadcast to the Andromeda galaxy as part of the Moon Arts program.  Broadcast transmitted from Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, Netherlands.  https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2016/december/symphony-to-the-stars.html broadcast composed and transmitted from the Dwingeloo radio telescope.

2014 Moon dance CMU School of Drama choreography based on Moon Ikon

2013 Moon Ikon  presented at ISAW4:  the 4th International Space Arts workshop at NASA Ames.  Moon Ikon is music composed and based on the sonicisation of the Lunar surface. http://www.taksha.org/event/TFA721

2011  Performance of Astro-Ballet commissioned as part of the UNESCO celebration of the anniversary of first manned spaceflight with cooperation from the Permanent Delegation of the Russian Federation to UNESCO, the Bureau of Strategic Planning, the Natural Sciences sector of UNESCO and the organization Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/mwg-internal/de5fs23hu73ds/progress?id=cqryYrB1lv3TqVltYD-7z6Jy6iD-ZiNentfjjkCdEZo%2C&Cancel=1

2010 presented a keynote address at UNESCO forum "Music as a catalyst for dialogue and communication" http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/unesco-house/?tx_browser_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=1789&cHash=f03ef4bc18

2009 Andrew Kaiser features in AstroRama by Squonk Opera http://squonkopera.org/astro-rama/ https://youtu.be/nps3BAmM0Vw

2008 Yuri’s Night Bay Area.  Composed I see the earth and it is beautiful executed with with commander Peggy Whitson and Crewmember Garrett Reisman of the 16th expedition of the international space station as part of the Deep Space Signaling Group at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.

2008 - 2010 Associate Fellow STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.  http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/peoples/andrew-kaiser.  Founding member Deep Space Signaling Group with Lowry Burgess

2005 Interviewed for The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music first aired on CBC Radio.  http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-wire-the-digital-democracy-of-sound-1.4234253

2005 Work with Doug Vakoch to define composed Extra-Terrestrial message using Fibonacci series exhibited at San Francisco Exploratorium.  http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/arecibo/tools/vakoch.html

2004 7th workshop on Space and the Arts at Noordwijk, sponsored by Leonardo and the European Space Agency.  Presented paper and composition for Didgeridoo and Radio Telescope.

2002 The Art and Science of Interstellar Message composition.  Paper presented at the Paris workshop on music as a source for generic messaging material.  Andrew Kaiser's presentation, "Sound as Intercultural Communication: A Meta-Analysis of Music with Implications for SETI.” https://muse.jhu.edu/article/52543/summary

 

Composition

Additional recent material available at Bandcamp for streaming or download: https://zenglop.bandcamp.com/

World Premiere of Astro-Ballet Commissioned as part of the UNESCO celebrations to commemorate 50th anniversary of manned space flight.  (April 2011, Paris)
mp3 || video || score

 Look! A Blue One Floats By...  for solo piano. (December, 2010)
video || score

Button Ballet for Blackberry, Button and Piano 

Realisation of 'Music that is Impossibly Loud and Unbearably Silent', (video) a piece of Landscape Sound for 5 Automobiles and Singer (May 2010, Pittsburgh)

 5 Songs on text by Housemann (mezzo soprano and piano)      (Fall 1994)
 notes ||  score  ||  mp3

 Music for Hurdy Gurdy and Freight Train  (video) (May 2010, Pittsburgh)

Mahler (Urlicht) for piano (Summer, 2009)
video  ||  score

 Three Pieces for Piano, November 2007  Recorded by Andrew Kaiser (Fall 2007)
 video ||  score

 'Yodeling Yaks' for Piano and Chamber Orchestra.  Premiered by David Stock and the Duquesne University Contemporary Ensemble. (April, 2009)

 ‘Along These Lines’ string quartet performed by the Starling Quartet at the Carnegie Museum of art as part of the Quiet Axis installation. (March 2008, Pittsburgh)
notes  ||  score  ||  mp3 

 Kinaesthetics and 'Along These Lines (String Quartet) published in Creare, journal of inter-disciplinary studies at Carnegie Mellon University. (December, 2009)

 

Electronics

Coming soon....The Larkin Project

The Scratch Pieces  (April 2012)
(1.  Scratch This || 2.  Scratch That || 3.  Scratch These ||  4.  Scratch The Other)

Lay Your sleeping Head  An electronic setting of Auden

coming soon...

Vespers       (micro electronics) 2003    MP3 to come  

some of these things are real (electronics)  2003   MP3 to come
        1. ...   mp3 ||  2. ...   mp3  ||  3... mp3  ||  4...  mp3   ||  5... mp3
 

CD review of William Kleinsasser published in Computer Music Journal  (Spring 2003)

CD review of Carl Stone/Tetsu Inoue published in Computer Music Journal (Fall 2002)

Space Stuff

Keynote speaker at the International Forum on Music as a Catalyst for Cultural Dialogue and Communication, sponsored by Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations, the American University in Paris, and UNESCO. (June, 2010.  Paris)

“I see the Earth”  sound and video event for Yuri’s Night Bay Area 2008, hosted by NASA Ames with participation by International Space Station Astronauts. (April 2008)

Andrew Kaiser features in AstroRama by Squonk Opera (April 2009)

Interview and performance featured in ‘The Wire’, a documentary for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio analyzing the intersection of electricity and music. (Winter 2005)

 Interview featured in ‘First Impressions’, a documentary for BBC Radio 4 discussing the construction of meaning in Extra Terrestrial messages. (Fall 2004)

Voices of the Noosphere .  Music and analysis presented at the 7th Annual Space Art conference, sponsored by Leonardo Journal and the European Space Agency. (Spring 2004)

Music for Didgeridoo and electronics performed at The art and Science of Interstellar Communication conference, sponsored by SETI Institute (April 2002) (http://publish.seti.org/general/articles.php?id=87)

 Sound as Intercultural Communication: A Meta-Analysis of Music paper presented at The art and Science of Interstellar Communication conference, sponsored by SETI (April 2002) Institute (http://publish.seti.org/art_science/french/abstract_listing.php?language=e)

Message composition material with Doug Vakoch (SETI Institute)  included in online exhibit “Origins”, designed by The Exploratorium Science Center, San Francisco.  (http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/arecibo/tools/vakoch.html) (Spring 2004)

Interviewed in podcast discussing Extraterrestrials and Music (hosted by Michael Schirber, also includes interview with Doug Vakoch).  Astrobiology Magazine (April 2011)

Early Stuff

 University of California, Long Beach Summer music festival, participant in Composer workshop.  Performance of Merlin Dances (August 1998)

Performance of Merlin Dances for Chamber ensemble, by Prism New Music ensemble (May 1998, Pittsburgh)

Sound design and composition for regional theatre production, Skryker

Piano composition Four Fantasy Pieces selected for performance at the College Music Society conference (1997)

Commissioned for choral work for  Bethany College W.V (1996)

 

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