The 2012 Future of Music Symposium is scheduled for Saturday, July 7, 2012.
The 2011 Symposium was held at Sonder Music, Dance & Art in Norman, OK on Saturday, July 9, 2011. The schedule of the day can be found below.
2011 Symposium Schedule:
| 9:30 a.m. | Welcome Reception |
| 10:00 a.m. | Presentation: Dr. Marvin Lamb, “Music Now and Then” |
| 11:00 a.m. | Presentation: Sarah Engel, “Homebuilt Instruments for Homemade Music” |
| 12:00 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| 1:30 p.m. | Presentation: Jacob Barton, “Microtones, Udderbots, and the language that loves them: Composing an Invigorating Musical Multiverse” |
| 2:30 p.m. | Round Table Discussion |
| 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 5:30 p.m. | Oklahoma Composers Salon Concert, featuring Jacob Barton, The Imaginary Orchestra, and Marvin Lamb |
Presenter Biographies
Jacob A. Barton (b. 1985) is a composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work focuses on microtonal practice and theory. Jacob studied music composition at Rice University with Karim Al-Zand, Kurt Stallmann, Edward Applebaum, and Art Gottschalk. In 2005, Jacob accidentally co-invented the udderbot, a DIY slide woodwind instrument, now his primary instrument. He has organized and participated in many collaborative performance projects which include the Seventeen Tone Piano Project, the Garden Performance Project, AquaTown: A Future Hydrohistory, the World’s First Udderbot Recital, and an Udderbot Marching Choir. Currently, Jacob performs with musico-puppetry collective An Exciting Event and teaches composition and social change at the School for Designing a Society in Urbana, Illinois.
Sarah Engel completed her Bachelors of Fine Arts at The University of Oklahoma, majoring in media art. She will begin her graduate studies in photography there in the Fall of 2011. Her primary media are photography, video, installation with living plants, homebuilt musical instruments and textiles. Her work has been shown at four University of Oklahoma School of Art Students’ Exhibitions, The MSC Forsyth Galleries Second Annual Juried Exhibition, in Bryan, TX, The Norman Park Foundation Tree Show, and The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. Sarah received the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition Momentum Spotlight Award for Spring 2011 as well as an Undergraduate Research Opportunity (UROP) Grant through the University of Oklahoma. Sarah’s UROP project culminated in an academic research paper and gallery exhibition discussing the resurgence and significance of homebuilt musical instruments in the context of American culture, focusing largely on cigar box instruments. This project received the Phi Kappa Phi award for Distinguished Undergraduate Research at the University of Oklahoma’s Undergraduate Research Day 2011.
Marvin Lamb (1946) is Professor of Music & Head of the Music Composition Program at the University of Oklahoma, where he served as Dean of the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts from 1998-2005. His music has been performed widely in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America & Japan. In addition, his orchestral works have been performed by the symphonies of Atlanta, Dallas, St. Louis, Colorado, Honolulu, the Cabrillo Festival, & recorded by the Czech Philharmonic Symphony. He has multiple awards from ASCAP, Meet the Composer, the Charles Ives Center for American Music, & held a year long fellowship in orchestral composition awarded by the Tennessee Arts Commission. His publications & recordings number over forty & his principal publisher is Carl, Fischer, Inc.