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DESCRIPTION:Composer Mark Applebaum is the Leland & Edith Smith Professor o
 f Composition at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in composition 
 from the University of California at San Diego where he studied principally
  with Brian Ferneyhough. His solo\, chamber\, choral\, orchestral\, operati
 c\, and electroacoustic work has been performed throughout North and South 
 America\, Europe\, Africa\, Australia\, and Asia with notable performances 
 at the Darmstadt Sessions.\n\nMany of his pieces are characterized by chall
 enges to the conventional boundaries of musical ontology: works for three c
 onductors and no players\, a concerto for florist and orchestra\, pieces fo
 r instruments made of junk\, notational specifications that appear on the f
 aces of custom wristwatches\, amplified Dadaist rituals\, silent “potential
 ” music that stimulates listeners to infer sound\, and a 72-foot long graph
 ic score displayed in a museum and accompanied by no instructions for its i
 nterpretation.\n\nApplebaum’s piece Aphasia—a work for an invented sign lan
 guage choreographed to sound—has been called a “modern classic.” It has bee
 n performed more than 500 times by at least 200 players in some 26 countrie
 s\, and has been the subject of multiple masters and doctoral theses. His w
 ork Pre-Composition\, an 8-channel “tape” piece (in which eight dissociativ
 e identities debate a piece to be written)\, has been similarly celebrated.
 \n\nKnown for his elaborate and beautiful handwritten scores\, in 2022 he w
 as awarded “best-image driven book” and “best manufacturing” by the Publish
 ers Professional Network’s 50th Annual Book Show for his lavish two-volume\
 , retrospective artbook Prescribe/Describe. Applebaum’s TED Talk—about bore
 dom—has been seen by more than five million viewers.\n\nHe has received com
 missions from Betty Freeman\, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company\, Fromm Fo
 undation\, Vienna Modern Festival\, Paul Dresher Ensemble\, Third Coast Per
 cussion\, St. Lawrence String Quartet\, Meridian Arts Ensemble\, I.C.E.\, C
 hamber Music America\, New Music USA\, Meet the Composer\, GRM (Le Groupe d
 e Recherches Musicales\, Paris)\, Banff Centre\, Spoleto Festival\, and oth
 ers. \n\nThe San Francisco Contemporary Music Players commissioned his comp
 osition Rabbit Hole\, an intricately choreographed chamber work based on ob
 sessive page turns. Ensemble Talea commissioned the 60-minute work Venture 
 Capital Punishment in which players alternate instrumental performance with
  prosaic office rituals.\n\nFlashlight\, a 50 for the Future commission by 
 the Kronos Quartet\, reimagines a Bach violin sonata in combination with as
 sorted stage props. The JACK Quartet has championed his string quartet Darm
 stadt Kindergarten (also commissioned by Kronos) in which sound is remember
 ed as it is systematically replaced by vivid hand gestures. Applebaum has a
 lso engaged in many intermedia collaborations\, including neural artists\, 
 film-makers\, florists\, animators\, architects\, choreographers\, and lapt
 op DJs.  \n\nApplebaum is an accomplished jazz pianist who has performed fr
 om Sumatra to Ouagadougou and who concertizes internationally with his fath
 er\, Bob Applebaum\, in the Applebaum Jazz Piano Duo. Applebaum is also an 
 acclaimed instrument builder who has toured widely with his many electroaco
 ustic sound-sculptures. His music appears on the Innova\, Tzadik\, Capstone
 \, Blue Leaf\, SEAMUS\, New Focus\, ChampD’Action\, and Evergreen labels. H
 e has served on the board of Other Minds and is a trustee of Carleton Colle
 ge.\n\nIn 2012 Applebaum convened the symposium Pedagogical Praxis and Curr
 icular Infrastructure in Graduate Music Composition to analyze the state of
  the field and consider reform. He has held professorial positions at Carle
 ton College and Mississippi State University\, and taught courses in Antwer
 p\, Santiago\, Singapore\, Paris\, Amsterdam\, Copenhagen\, Stockholm\, Fin
 land\, and Oxford. In 2000 he joined the faculty at Stanford where he direc
 ts [sic]—the Stanford Improvisation Collective\; received the 2003 Walter J
 . Gores Award for excellence in teaching\; was named a Bass University Fell
 ow in Undergraduate Education\; and holds the aforementioned distinguished 
 chair—the Edith & Leland Smith Professor of Composition.
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LOCATION:R. Haze Hunter Alumni Center (CC)\, Great Hall
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SUMMARY:Mark Applebaum - Musician and Composer
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URL:https://events.suu.edu/event/apex-mark-applebaum
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