huffpuffman

Damn.

I’ve been selected for CEMI’s Centerpieces concert this year:

September 18th, 2006 8:00 PM – Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater

Greg Dixon, got bugs? (2-channel audio, 6′)
Tyler Huffman, Penetralia (5.1 DVD, 5′)
Chris Polcyn, Kick (8-channel audio, 8′)
Stephen Lucas, His Arthropod Numbness (5.1 DVD, 8′)
Dr. Andrew May, A Room Full of Ghosts (piccolo and computer, 7′)
Dr. Jon Nelson, Just After the Rain (2-channel audio, 10′)
Dr. David Bithell, Lumen: Aria (trumpet and computer, 8′)

The Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia will inaugurate its 2006-7 season this Monday, September 18, at 8 pm with Centerpieces, a concert of new music from the CEMI studios. Every work dates from either 2005 or 2006, so you will be among the first to hear them!

Works by student composers Tyler Huffman, Stephen Lucas, Chris Polcyn, and Greg Dixon will range from the lyrical to the intense to the humorous. Their works employ such technologies as digitally generated video and 8-channel spatialized sound.

New composition faculty David Bithell will perform his work Lumen: Aria for trumpet and computer. Nova Ensemble director Elizabeth McNutt will perform a new work for piccolo and computer, A Room Full of Ghosts, by faculty composer Andrew May. Faculty composer and Associate Dean Jon Christopher Nelson will present a new electroacoustic work, Just After the Rain.

The future of music keeps arriving early, and CEMI is here to help us all enjoy it together! I look forward to seeing you at the show.

–Andrew May, CEMI Director

Come out if you wanna see my new DVD piece.

07:05 PM CDT on Sunday, September 10, 2006

By Donna Fielder and Monty Miller Jr. / Staff Writers

A single-engine plane made an unscheduled landing on Interstate 35W in Denton on Sunday afternoon after a fuel transfer switch failed.

Denton police spokesman Jim Bryan said the Cessna landed in the northbound lanes just south of FM2449 about 4:35 p.m.

The two occupants of the plane were not injured, he said, and no cars on the interstate were struck.

The plane was en route from Fort Worth’s Meacham International Airport to the Denton Municipal Airport, said Mark Nelson, chief transportation officer with the Denton airport.

Bryan did not know the identities of the plane’s occupants.

“They had another tank of fuel, but the switch would not work, so the tank they were using ran out,” Bryan said.

Denton patrol officers shut down the interstate highway and escorted a fuel truck from the airport to the scene. After refueling the working tank, the Cessna took off from the highway and flew on its way, Bryan said.

Officers reopened the highway at 5:45 p.m.

The plane landed at the Denton airport at 5:50 p.m., Nelson said.