MuTeFest IV

Chiptune Composing Methods with Charlie Rogers aka Attractivision

Thursday - 3/18
5:30pm

What if Zelda was a Pokémon soundtrack? And then, what if both of those were Megaman? What if the music of Green Hill Zone and Chemical Plant Zone happened simultaneously? ...What if there was a King of the Hill Rhapsody?

Attractivision is Charlie Rogers, an experienced composer who uses his powers for good. Chiptunes work with real instruments for a precise, yet human performance. Charlie leads on keytar. These songs are engaging, emotional, and full of Easter eggs. Listening to an Attractivision song is a journey, with moods, stories, conquests, and at the end you feel that specific feeling of beating a video game. It's alright to cry about Sonic the Hedgehog.
Here's a preview

Zoom Room: https://utsa.zoom.us/j/92343363480

0cc Famitracker Workshop

Thursday - 3/18
6:30pm

Learn how to use 0cc Famitracker to make chiptune music with this seminar from Jonathan Foster
Zoom Room: https://utsa.zoom.us/j/92343363480

Get j0cc Famitracker here.

Anaïs Maviel Performance "Legba Swaying" and Discussion

Friday - 3/19
5:00pm

Anaïs Maviel's work as a vocalist, percussionist, composer and community facilitator focuses on the function of music as essential to settling common grounds, addressing Relation, and creating utopian future. Involved at the crossroads of mediums, Anaïs has been an in-demand creative force for artists such as William Parker, Daria Faïn, Shelley Hirsh, César Alvarez, Steffani Jemison - to give a sense of an eclectic company. Anaïs is dedicated to substantial creations from solo to large ensembles, music direction of cross-disciplinary works, and to expanding the power of music as a healing & transformative act. Anaïs performs and teaches extensively in New York, throughout the Americas and Europe. Both solo albums hOULe & in the garden, out on Gold Bolus Recordings, received international acclaim. Lastly, Anaïs Maviel is developing her composition language, especially thanks to the support of the 2019 Van Lier Fellowship, 2020 American Composers Forum Create commission with The Rhythm Method String Quartet and 2021-2022 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship.

”I'd like to show a solo set called Legba Swaying, performed at the lunar new year of 2019 at Roulette Intermedium in Brooklyn, NY. With this performance, I share my early interactions with sound recording as a means to reflect on the nature of time and sound. I'd like to spark a conversation after watching, on the role of technology in our approach of music as composers and performers approaching multi-dimensionality.” -Maviel

https://www.anaismaviel.com/


Here are some things Anaïs shared with us:
Legba Swaying - Ayin Press
If You Say So: Anaïs Maviel / Sam Yulsman on Vimeo
Zoom Room: https://utsa.zoom.us/j/94713459651

Audio Tech: Do's and Don'ts

Saturday - 3/20
5:00pm

A discussion on the do's and don'ts of audio tech, sound design and more! Come on in and discuss your experiences with music and audio production.
Zoom Room: https://utsa.zoom.us/j/7834139008

San Antonio Ambient Orchestra

Video Piece: ‘Wheelies’

Sunday - 3/21
8pm on Facebook Live Watch Here

The San Antonio Ambient Orchestra return for their second concert, this time taking the form of a video piece comprised of productions composed (and performed) by Samuel Gaskin, Wes Uchiyama-Penix, Derick Penrod, Andrew Bergmann, and Joe Caploe.

Additional performers and engineers include Evan Feist, Alison Fletcher, Elias Hudson, Jacob Pons, and Vicente Barrera.

Listen to the SAAO’s previous concert from MuTeFest III—a 45-minute piece called ‘Conveyors’ here.

Bitwig Introducton Workshop with Mark Hoffman aka Space Gun Bunny

Monday - 3/22
6:00pm

Making Your Music Software Communicate With Eurorack

In this workshop you will learn simple recording techniques using Bitwig Studio and on the way we’ll explore some of the features that make this DAW a serious music creation and performance tool. You’ll learn how to connect Bitwig Studio with your eurorack and the advantages of the software’s built-in Modulation system. And we’ll enter The Grid, Bitwig Studio’s own modular sound design environment, to build a virtual synth.

Certified Bitwig Studio instructor, Mark Hoffman aka Space Gun Bunny is a DJ, producer, Full Sail audio engineer, electronic music artist, sound designer, and circuit bender who has been teaching his musical approach, methods, and style of learning in classes and workshops for over 20 years.

Zoom Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85767308889

What is Stereo? Seminar with RB Blackstone

Tuesday - 3/23
1:00pm - 2:30pm

RB Blackstone has been a leading San Antonio sound practitioner for decades, excelling as a producer, performer and sound engineer, but also as a studio architect and acoustics specialist, not to mention a teacher and mentor to the local technology community.
https://www.rbblackstone.com/

Zoom Room: https://utsa.zoom.us/j/94677588134

Bill Baird Performance of "The Cube" & Workshop

Tuesday - 3/23
8:00pm

Bill Baird is a musician, writer, and creative technologist living in San Antonio. He was recently named "one of the top two or three psychedelic songwriters in the world" by Le Village Pop (Paris) and Spin Magazine previously called him a "psych-pop master craftsman." He has released records on Parlophone, Capitol, SonyRED, Moon Glyph, Curly, Dangerbird, Secretly Canadian/St. Ives, among others. His installations/curations have been featured at the California Academy of Sciences, Fort Mason Center of the Arts, Museum of Human Achievement, Luminaria, Ballroom Marfa, and currently at Hopscotch SA. While working at the Center for Contemporary Music (Mills College) he was awarded the Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Prize, named Dresher Ensemble Artist-in-Residence, and presented at the Deep Listening Conference. He has been insulted by famous people, burned pianos, written public access TV operas, played to rooms both packed and completely empty, and survived to tell the tale.

The Cube is a multi-media performance piece which takes place inside a custom built cube (a hyperrectangle, to be perfectly nerdy about it). The walls are projection mapped with custom video, touching on sacred geometry, public access TV, and the cycles of nature. The audio is vintage synthesizers, drum machines and drum kits, recorded and then looped in ableton, and supplemented by bass and moog synthesizer. The Cube is intended, first and foremost, to be enjoyable to the eyes and ears, an explosion of layered sonics, visual collage, and pleasant disorientation. Recursive patterns populate the visuals -- the performer's image projected upon himself. And image within image within image. The fractal nature of our world, yes, but also a sly nod at getting lost down internet rabbit-holes. Past that, The Cube is a commentary on the boxes we sequester ourselves in. Seriously, look around. You're probably sitting inside a box right now. Through intense color and sound, we immerse ourselves in this microcosm of our world, in hopes we might transcend it for a few moments.
Livestream on Twitch blonde_bill - Twitch
https://linktr.ee/blondebill
https://www.billbillbillbillbill.com/

Seminar with Kenny Bergle from Sweetwater

Wednesday - 3/24
12:00pm

Kenny Bergle has been assembling and consulting on music technology systems since he first took his 2 now antique cassette decks apart to make a crude multi-track recorder in 1968. Bergle, at Sweetwater since 1993, is an alum of the University of North Texas, where he studied avant guard jazz guitar, much to the chagrin of most of his profs. During the late 80's and early 90's he was the go-to guy for any music technology issues with most national touring artists and worked as a consultant to the stars from the beginning of MIDI in 1985. At Sweetwater, he's developed and helped develop music tech curricula for many universities, international level acts, national broadcasters and many federal, state and local government agencies, as well as continuing to be the first call technology guy to many international stars including Joe Walsh, John Fogerty and Ringo Starr.
Zoom Link: https://utsa.zoom.us/j/98002919894

Battle of the Beats hosted by Lord Verm

Wednesday - 3/24
7:30pm

The fan favorite show returns this year bigger than ever before. Beatmakers and producers go head to head in this competition showing the best beats they can make with the given samples. This year the show will be done in an online format with online audience voting.

This event has been postponed to Fall semester 2021.