Sound Noise Experiment #2

Love In Despair

News, Virginia, where he holds the position Director of Creative Studies at Christopher Newport University.  He holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Virginia, an MA in Music Composition from Wesleyan University, and a BM in Music Education as well as a performance certificate in percussion from the University of Florida.  He also performs live improvised noise music using digital and analog electronics.  Outside of his music, Maxwell creates digital glitch photography that uses audio concepts and synthesis as a means of image manipulation in Supercollider.  Maxwell has had works performed at ICMC, SEAMUS, Electro Acoustic Barn Dance, Society of Composers, FEAST Festival, Technosonics, N_SEME, and Subtropics Music festival and was a featured composer for Share and more. His music has also been performed by Jack Quartet, Loadbang,  MehanPerkins, Dither, Ekmeles, The New Thread Quartet, percussionists I-Jen Fang, pianist Seung-Hye Kim and Kenneth Broadway. He has studied with Judith Shatin, Anthony Braxton, Ted Coffey, Matthew Burtner, Paula Matthusen, James Sain and Ronald Kuivila.

Currently Maxwell is working on a collection of graphic scores that utilizes spectral analysis for content.  These scores are hand written and use various shapes, sizes, abstract graphic and techniques to create form, improvisation and aleatoric layering of sound.

Sound Noise Experiment #2

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