Paulson to present research at the SEAMUS Conference

Dr. John Paulson, Music Department, will present some of his research on the early history of electronic music in the United States at the SEAMUS Conference April 3.

He has produced a paper and presentation on his personal interviews with some of the most prestigious electronic music composers and their associations with Vladimir Ussachevsky. Dr. Paulson did several personal interviews with Ussachevsky in the 1970s and 1980s, wrote his master’s thesis on him and published an article on the composer in the Instrumentalist magazine in the mid ‘80s. His presentation will feature photos and audio clips from the original interviews done with Ussachevsky and his composer colleagues at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City.

The 2008 National Conference of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States is hosted by the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. This year’s conference is dedicated to pioneering electro-acoustic composer Vladimir Ussachevsky, in residence at the University of Utah from 1970 to 1990. The conference will include performances of his later electro-acoustic works, including his colloquy for orchestra and tape, premiered by the Utah Symphony in 1976. Following the national call for participation, approximately 100 recent electro-acoustic compositions, videos, and papers have been selected and will be presented at the conference.