The Contemporary Art Music Project (CAMP)’s mission is to celebrate the music of living composers and inspire the art music community by presenting the highest quality of musical performances and the collaboration of CAMP projects with other local arts organizations.

Kari Besharse’s compositional output spans various facets within the field of contemporary music, fully engaging new technological resources as well as traditional instruments and ensembles. Her works, which incorporate sounds from acoustic instruments, found objects, the natural world, and synthesis, are often generated from a group of sonic objects or material archetypes that undergo processes of rupture, degradation, alternation, expansion, and distortion. Recent projects include Rails, a large chamber ensemble work written for Alarm Will Sound and premiered at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival in July 2010 and Embers, a work for saxophone and piano commissioned by Richard Schwartz, which premiered in March 2011. Her music has been presented around the world by venues and organizations such as The California Ear Unit, Society of Composers, Inc., Texas Computer Musicians Network, The LaTex Festival, The Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, ICMC, SEAMUS, Bourges, Elektrophonie, Third Practice, 60X60, The Electroacoustic Juke Joint Festival, New Music Forum, Pulse Field, and the Art of Sounds Festival at Belgrade, Serbia. Currently a lecturer at Southeastern Louisiana University, Dr. Besharse has also taught music theory, music history, and electronic music courses at Illinois Wesleyan and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Kari’s education includes undergraduate studies at UMKC (B.M. ‘98), and graduate work at the University of Texas at Austin (M.M. ‘02) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (D.M.A. ‘09).

I am an experimentalist, a musical scientist!!!!!
I love poetry, but music is my main way of expression.
I love electronics, but I love all kinds of musical manifestations.

Indigo Knecht is a composer, tubist, and educator fascinated with the challenges people face as they navigate this world. Through a synthesis of contemporary classical music and rock & roll, Indigo explores themes such as environmentalism, mental illness, and self-realization.

Indigo has a BM in Composition from Bowling Green State University and a MM in Composition from University of Michigan. They are currently in their fourth year at University of Miami pursuing a DMA in Composition under the guidance of Dr. Juan Chattah. Their multimedia installation, “The Chanting of Coral Reefs: Bringing Awareness to the Endangerment of Coral Reefs Through the Sonification of Settling Larvae,” received the 2024 Presser Foundation Graduate Award. Indigo currently teaches music theory and composition at Tennessee Technological University while they continue to develop expansive compositions that bring awareness to issues in our world with groundbreaking technology.

minimal | instrumental | video | improv | electronics
Music also on Bandcamp: http://adamscottneal.bandcamp.com

"Don't Blink Or You'll Die" (aka DBOYD) is one being and an aural display of various emotions with intense, energetic Dance/Rock music written through old video game consoles and other instrumentation, accompanied by a high energy live show. He is also a member of the chipmusic duo "Rock Candy".

My main weapon of choice is the original Nintendo Gameboy running the music tracker Little Sound DJ. I also have experience using Famitracker (NES), Deflemask and Schism Tracker.

In addition to writing chiptune, I also score for commercial media, such as video games, television, and film.

For contact, booking, media-related:
dboydchipmusic@gmail.com

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