Responding to the COVID-19 virus, we have just uploaded our first virtual VIBES concert online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TK-msQ0Se0

The biggest hit of the concert is Shian Luo's "When You See it", a musical experience that takes you back to when you saw that despicable cockroach in your kitchen the other day... The concert also features my revised piece "Bonding Ritual", which sounds like it may come from a Indie game.

Big thanks to Tom Boram and Jimmy Joe Roche, guest artists from the HIGH ZERO electronic music community, who we invited into a ZOOM session and gave a fantastic workshop on electronic music improvising! If you missed it, it's your loss. Really.

Well, see you next semester year on VIBES :)

​What a wonderful night we had! I came up with the "memory" theme so we may have make more memories together. And I think I've accomplished just that.

Link to this concert: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6U5bwPlyuk

The highlight of the night is Ayla Cosnett's "Shrewsbury". A piece created with such philosophical complexity is something that I may never grow to understand. "The Memories with the Folk Song" by Nishan Jiang is another great piece that showcases the power of the Chinese instrument Erhu. She really knows her instrumentation.

Big thanks to all who showed up and enjoyed the concert :)

By Zijun Wang

What a tiresome day. So many things gone wrong! So many work to do! But with such a splendid result, I think it's well worth our effort, and I am grateful for being able to work with all these talented people.

Link to this performance (playlist):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaxYBilD9qksZpHvzy76ufUc0ShXirxsI

Big thanks to all composers and dancer for your time, effort, flexibility, patience and skills! Shout out to Erik Fredriksen who was the perfect host, and me who sat off-stage but took care of lights and mixing :) and Emmanuel Episcopal for providing us the performance space, and everybody for attending and enjoying the show!

As this is the first collaboration between Peabody Computer Music and Peabody Dance and turns out to be great, I'm looking forward to collaborating with the rest of Peabody!

By Zijun Wang

This is our second VIBES concert of the semester. We got so many great submissions! Awesome sample processing!

About the title of the concert: sample variance is a term in statistics that's used to measure the diversity of samples collected. But here, it's a pun. (*wink

Link to the pieces shown that night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKdABKJ-GgA

The only thing that's a disappointment is the number of audiences that showed up that night.

November 19th is my birthday. I'm now officially 23 years old. I even got to have cake :)

​Hope everything will continue to pick up from this point!

By Erik Fredriksen, Photos by Yian Hwang

We had a fantastic time with our Spring Concert, entitled "Cover Band Karaoke Night" We had one fixed media compositions and then several rearrangements of previous compositions and songs in both English and Chinese. Our composers/performers for the evening were Tiantian Wang, Zijun Wang, Erik Fredriksen and Xiaogang Xiang.

Below are three separate instagram posts with excerpts from the performance, linked below. Please consider following our Instagram page, @VIBESpeabody!

Tuesday March 12 marked the next installment in the VIBES Concert Series called STILL. Thank you all so much to those that came and a huge thank you to Peabody Computer Music alumni Sandra Tavali Wuan-Chin Li for her piece and video program note. We had pieces by student computer music students Xiaogang Xiang, Dante Baskett, Tiantian Wang, and Norvin Tu-Wang. They submitted an incredible assortment of pieces and it was a fantastic time. 

Below are some fantastic pictures taken by department staff Yian Hwang! We hope to see you at the next concert, “Do You Like Jazz?” (as well as the pre-concert party and food at 6:30!)

One of our GAs, Jeremy Harvey, prepared some detailed comments regarding his experience at the concert:

"The theme of this concert was very unrestrictive in nature, and we enjoyed pieces inspired by a wide variety of topics (from lightning to ducks and roosters!) All but one piece was a fixed media piece. 

"Several of the pieces made me think about compositional devices and the way I write computer music. For example, the first piece, Dark Spots of Lightning, used D as a pedal point and used it as a drone throughout the entire piece, even though each of the synthesizers acted as layers. I would like to explore this further and practice focusing purely on texture rather than tonality. Tiantian’s piece for the Disklavier and Max/MSP challenged me to think about the validity of writing a piece involving electronics that sounds like it has any possibility of being played by a human. Does the use of Max with the Disklavier simply become an aesthetic? When writing computer music, is the only way to take advantage of electronics to write a piece that cannot be played by any other means?

​"This concert challenged my thinking with questions such as these, and I hope future concerts will continue to do so".