DESCRIPTION: Nachtlicht explores collective control of live video processing on 20 wireless-networked laptops. The piece emerged from Ted Coffey’s advanced sound studio seminar at the University of Virginia.
BIO: Ted Coffey makes acoustic and electronic chamber music, multimedia pieces, interactive installations and songs. His work has been presented in concerts and festivals across the US and Canada, Europe and Asia. Coffey’s writing on the aesthetics and social politics of transmissive networks in art have been honored with significant awards from the Josephine De Kármán and Andrew C. Mellon Foundations. He studied composition with Jon Appleton, Christian Wolff, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Lansky and others, earning degrees at Dartmouth [AB], Mills College [MFA] and Princeton [MFA, PhD]. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses in composition, music technologies, critical theory and pop. For more information regarding his work, please visit www.tedcoffey.com.
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