Douglas Geers
Encyclopedia
Career
Geers is an Associate professor of music composition and Director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM)Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM)
The Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music located at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York was one of the first computer music centers at a public university in the United States...
at the City University of New York
City University of New York
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College is a senior college of the City University of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York, United States.Established in 1930 by the New York City Board of Higher Education, the College had its beginnings as the Downtown Brooklyn branches of Hunter College and the City College of New...
(USA). He previously was a professor of music at the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
(Minneapolis, USA), where he founded the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts and was its Director from 2003-2009. Geers also is a member of the Electric Music Collective and the electroacoustic band, Sønreel.
Education
Geers received a B.A. in English and Music from Xavier University, a M.A. in Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of MusicUniversity of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music
The University of Cincinnati – College-Conservatory of Music is the performing arts college of the University of Cincinnati and is one of the nation's leading music conservatories. In its most recent rankings, U.S. News & World Report ranked Cincinnati sixth nationally among university programs...
and a D.M.A. from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
in 2002. From 2000 to 2001, he completed a one-year research/composition residency at the Norwegian Center for Music in Technology and the Arts in Oslo, Norway. His teachers include Fred Lerdahl
Fred Lerdahl
Alfred Whitford Lerdahl is the Fritz Reiner Professor of Musical Composition at Columbia University, and a composer and music theorist best known for his work on pitch space and cognitive constraints on compositional systems or "musical grammar[s]." He has written many orchestral and chamber...
, Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail
Tristan Murail is a French composer. His father, Gérard Murail, is a poet and his mother, Marie-Thérèse Barrois, a journalist. One of his brothers, Lorris Murail, and his younger sister Elvire Murail, aka Moka, also write, and his younger sister Marie-Aude Murail is a French children's writer...
, Brad Garton
Brad Garton
Brad Garton is an American composer and computer musician who is professor of music at Columbia University.He has written, or helped to write, a number of computer music applications, including Real-Time Cmix, music synthesis and signal processing language for real time composition. He received...
, Jonathan Kramer
Jonathan Kramer
Jonathan Donald Kramer , was a U.S. composer and music theorist.- Biography :...
, George Edwards, Allen Sapp (composer), Frederick Bianchi
Frederick Bianchi
Frederick Bianchi is an American-born composer and music technologist . Central to his work is the integration of acoustic instruments with electronic/computer-generated sound...
, and Darrell Handel.
Selected works
- Inanna (2009) multimedia theater
- Calling (2008) opera
- Sweep (2008) for PLOrkPLOrkThe Princeton Laptop Orchestra is a Princeton University ensemble of computer based meta-instruments. It is the first ensemble of its kind in the history of computer music, both in scale and in approach.-Background:...
with violin and percussion - Laugh Perfumes (2006) violin concerto
- Tremor Transducer (2004) for five instruments and computer
- Memory Dust (2003) for big band and computer
- Gilgamesh(2002) multimedia concerto/theater
- Enkidu (2001) for violin and computer
- Reality House (1998) for chamber septet
- Ripples (1997) electroacoustic music
Recordings
- Love Paint
- Music for Fish
- 60x60 2006
- SEAMUS 20th Anniversary Electroclips
- 60x60 2005
- Defiant (Electric Music Collective)
- Incandescence (Electric Music Collective)
- 60x60
- Sonic Circuits IX
- Music from SEAMUS, volume ten