During the conference, a social platform will remain open. Conference attendees can meet there and chat, either in private or in groups!
On the first day of the conference, Sunday October 24th at 6pm ET, composer Mark Applebaum will give a presentation on his work, particularly focusing on his music that is inspired by the notion of aphasia. During the presentation, our social platform will remain open.
Composer Mark Applebaum is the Leland & Edith Smith Professor of Composition at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in composition from the University of California at San Diego where he studied principally with Brian Ferneyhough. His solo, chamber, choral, orchestral, operatic, and electroacoustic work has been performed throughout North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia with notable performances at the Darmstadt Sessions. Many of his pieces are characterized by challenges to the conventional boundaries of musical ontology: works for three conductors and no players, a concerto for florist and orchestra, pieces for instruments made of junk, notational specifications that appear on the faces of custom wristwatches, works for an invented sign language choreographed to sound, amplified Dadaist rituals, and a 72-foot long graphic score displayed in a museum and accompanied by no instructions for its interpretation. His TED Talk—about boredom—has been seen by more than three million viewers.He has received commissions from Betty Freeman, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Fromm Foundation, the Kronos Quartet, the Vienna Modern Festival, the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the St. Lawrence String Quartet, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, Chamber Music America, the Spoleto Festival, and others. The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players premiered his composition Rabbit Hole, an elaborate chamber ensemble work based on page turns. He has also engaged in many intermedia collaborations, including neural artists, film-makers, florists, animators, architects, choreographers, and laptop DJs. Applebaum is also an accomplished jazz pianist who has performed from Sumatra to Ouagadougou and who concertizes internationally with his father, Bob Applebaum, in the Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo. His music appears on the Innova, Tzadik, Capstone, Blue Leaf, SEAMUS, New Focus, Champ D’Action, and Evergreen labels. He serves on the board of Other Minds and as a trustee of Carleton College.Applebaum has held professorial positions at Carleton College and Mississippi State University. He has taught classes in Antwerp, Santiago, Singapore, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oxford, and Finland, and served as master artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. In 2000 he joined the faculty at Stanford where he directs [sic]—the Stanford Improvisation Collective, received the 2003 Walter J. Gores Award for excellence in teaching, and was named the Hazy Family University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
To help our attendees go in full reception mode, here are two suggestions for cocktails to mix up and enjoy during Sunday's social event!
Daisy: Fill a silver mug or glass goblet with finely shaved ice and stir until the outside of the mug is frosted. Pour in 2 teaspoons grenadine, the juice of 1/2 lemon, and 1 jigger (1.5 oz) liquor -- Cognac, gin, rum, applejack, bourbon, or rye. Fill the mug with soda water and garnish with fruit and a cherry. (The Gourmet Cookbook, Vol II Rev., 1965, Gourmet, New York)
Prohibition Daisy: SHAKE the following ingredients with ice: 2 measures (1oz) raspberry syrup, 2 measures pineapple juice, 2 measures orange juice, 1 measure (0.5 oz) lime juice, and 1 measure lemon juice. Strain into a silver mug or glass goblet with finely shaved ice, and garnish with fruit and a cherry. (Difford's Guide)
