Mike Angell |
Mike AngellMike Angell is a freelance composer and voice actor based in the Washington, DC area. He has written works in a wide variety of genres, including acoustic instruments, electro-acoustic music, and combinations of the two. They have been performed at many and varied concert series, festivals, and conferences throughout the US and abroad; including Society of Composers, SEAMUS, Bowling Green New Music Festival, the Aspen Music Festival, The International Computer Music Festival, Artburst concert series, and the Birmingham Art Music Alliance. Mike has received awards from the International Trumpet Guild, the Hultgren Cello Biennial, ASCAP, and Oberlin College. He has also received an Arts Fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts. Mike received his training at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music (BM, 1986), and the University of Michigan (MM, 1989; and DMA 1993). He has studied with William Albright, William Bolcom, Walter Aschaffenburg, George Balch Wilson, Robert Lombardo, and Donald Erb. Mike's music is published by TUBA Press, ITA Press, and Angell Edition. Recordings can be found on the following labels: Centaur, Living Music, Marks, and SCI Performer's Recording series. Prior to moving to DC in 2008, Mike spent fourteen years (1994-2008) on the faculty of the Music Department of the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He taught classic in composition, theory, aural skills, computer music, and was founder and director of the Computer Music Ensemble. Mike also co-founded the Birmingham Art Music Alliance in 1994-5. He served as that group's initial president, and subsequently in the capacities of Vice President for Membership, Treasurer, and Director of Development. Also in the service realm, Mike has served on the board of directors of SEAMUS (the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States) and the Birmingham Artburst Series. |
What's Mike Up to Now?Mike is returning to Birmingham for the premiere of his new piece, "Capital Spheres," for violin and soundfiles, written for violin soloist, Karen Bentley Pollick. This is the second piece Mike has written for Karen, the first being, "Prig and the Pig," for violin and piano. Listen to an mp3 excerpt, below. (coming soon!) Anyhow, the performance is on the Birmingham Art Music Alliance's upcoming concert at the (way cool) Birmingham Museum of Art, in its Steiner Auditorium. Thursday, March 11 at 6:00 p.m. The entire concert features the amazing violin stylings of Karen Bentley Pollick. For more inforamtion, check out BAMA's web site. If you're in the Birmingham area, then check out the concert! To find out more about Angell Voicings, go to www.angellvoicings.com |
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Eat the Magic Cookie! |
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| Eat the Magic Cookie!.mp3 - excerpt | |||
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This is an electro-acoustic work whose main source file is that from me and my wife biting into nacho chips. We tried cookies, but they didn't yield very interesting sound spectra. The title refers to the interesting labels of things from modern life. A magic cookie is a file used in web browsing. It is neither magic nor edible. | |||
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Asa Nisi Masa |
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This is an excerpt from another electro-acoustic piece. It was inspired by a scene from Federico Fellini's movie, "8 1/2." I tried to conjure up a mystical atmosphere. | |||
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Capital Spheres |
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| Capital Spheres.pdf - excerpt | |||
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This is a section from my new piece for violin and soundfiles, "Capital Spheres." The piece is comprised of various sections (6-8, plus three optional add-ons) whose notations are on cardboard shaped spheres and pipes. In modern life, people's lives may move from one town to another, with various transitions. The various motifs of ourselves travel yet change as they go through different locales and transitions. In the piece, the locales are on "spheres" (actually, circular pieces of colored cardboard) and the transitions are on pipe-shaped color cardboard. For each sphere or pipe, there is a soundfile with which the soloist must coordinate. Various opportunities exist for free or directed improvisation. The soloist also selects the order of the section. The shapes are arranged on a performing board (score board) via velcro. This pdf is the notation for the Chicago Sphere. The soundfile is the accompaniment only for this sphere. | |||
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