Event Title
MoxTube
Performer / Ensemble
Elisabeth Stimpert (Clarinet), The University of Central Missouri Clarinet Ensemble, DuoBunch (laptop ensemble)
Date of Publication
3-26-2021
Document Type
Composition
Abstract / Program Notes
MoxTube is the second in an ongoing series of indeterminate works that employs YouTube as an interactive instrument played within a person’s typical internet browser at home or en mass in a concert space. The video also functions as its score, backing track, and instructions. Within the series, each work also engages with a specific collaborator’s interests. In MoxTube, clarinetist Dr. Elisabeth Stimpert’s soloistic and pedagogical interests combine in a solo video performance that generates one of these interactive YouTube instruments and provides indeterminate wind parts, here played by the University of Central Missouri Clarinet Ensemble she leads. You can find the work online to play it for yourself on Flutist Robin Meiksins’ YouTube channel, who video edits this series.
Biography
Ralph Lewis is a doctoral candidate in music composition at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who is passionate about exploring, supporting, and understanding new musical expression. Active as a composer, music theorist, and educator, his work is often centered on creating welcoming, inclusive spaces and engaging less discussed music and technology. In 2019, he received one of ten Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Research Grant awarded throughout the US to support his music theory dissertation research about Aaron Cassidy’s Second String Quartet at the University of Huddersfield. Lewis’s compositions have been performed at festivals and conferences including SCI National Student Conference, Electronic Music Midwest, SEAMUS, College Music Society, Radiophrenia Glasgow, Boston Microtonal Society, the International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR), and the Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival. Previously, he received an M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media and an M.A. in Music Composition from Mills College, a B.M. in Music Composition from Oberlin Conservatory, and a B.A. in Classical Civilization from Oberlin College.
Elisabeth Stimpert is a founding member of the critically-acclaimed new-music ensemble Alarm Will Sound (www.alarmwillsound.com). She has performed across the country and internationally at major venues in New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Cleveland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Amsterdam, South Korea and Germany. Dr. Stimpert works regularly with many of today’s leading and emerging composers, having presented world premieres of works by John Adams, Steve Reich, John Luther Adams, David Lang, Wolfgang Rihm, Amy Beth Kirsten, Michael Gordon, Augusta Read Thomas, Carl Schimmel, Donnacha Dennehy, Stefan Freund, Robert Pound, John Orfe, David E. Chávez, and many others. A dedicated collegiate music educator, Dr. Stimpert serves as Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of Central Missouri where she teaches applied clarinet, aural training, woodwind methods, and woodwind literature and pedagogy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in clarinet performance and music theory from The Ohio State University, a master’s degree in clarinet performance and music education from the Eastman School of Music and a doctorate in clarinet performance from Shenandoah University. DuoBunch is an ensemble co-directed by flutist Robin Meiksins, TJ Milne, and Ralph Lewis. It is comprised of people from around the United States interested in performing DuoTube, MoxTube, and upcoming YouTube instrument works in this series. Members include singer Liz Cochran, hornist Anna Marshall, composer P.R. Martin, percussionist Mike Minarcek, composers David Nguyen and Eric Zurbin, and saxophonist/composer Nick Ortiz.
Keywords
YouTube, Laptop ensemble, clarinet
Description
Duration: 5:00. Instrumentation: Laptop ensemble (using a YouTube instrument)/ clarinet ensemble (audience is welcome to perform along with their computers). Date of Composition: 2020.
MoxTube
MoxTube is the second in an ongoing series of indeterminate works that employs YouTube as an interactive instrument played within a person’s typical internet browser at home or en mass in a concert space. The video also functions as its score, backing track, and instructions. Within the series, each work also engages with a specific collaborator’s interests. In MoxTube, clarinetist Dr. Elisabeth Stimpert’s soloistic and pedagogical interests combine in a solo video performance that generates one of these interactive YouTube instruments and provides indeterminate wind parts, here played by the University of Central Missouri Clarinet Ensemble she leads. You can find the work online to play it for yourself on Flutist Robin Meiksins’ YouTube channel, who video edits this series.