Electronic Arts Ensemble
Constantin Basica and Alex Chechile
Electronic Arts Ensemble is designed for musicians, visual artists, programmers, designers, writers, dancers, actors, or artists of any discipline to collaboratively develop improvisatory performances using custom digital toolkits.
- performance practices, with a focus on improvisation
- music performance software
- video performance software
- hardware and sensors
- networked performance
Participants should have an artistic and/or programming background. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged to apply. Experience with improvisation is not required, but willingness to perform is crucial.
Constantin Basica is a Romanian composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area (CA), whose work focuses on symbiotic interrelations between music, video, and performers. His portfolio includes pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, electronics, and video. His works have been performed in Europe, North America, and Asia by artists and ensembles such as Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Liminar, ELISION Ensemble, Distractfold, Mocrep, JACK Quartet, Spektral Quartet, kallisti, RAGE Thormbones, line upon line, Retro Disco, Fresh Squeezed Opera, Séverine Ballon, Tony Arnold, Karen Bentley Pollick, and Olga Berar. He received the ICMA Award for Best Submission from Europe at the 42nd ICMC in Shanghai (CN). Constantin earned a DMA in Composition at Stanford University under the guidance of Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Applebaum, and Erik Ulman. He holds an M.A. degree in Multimedia Composition from the University of Music and Theater Hamburg (DE), and two B.A. degrees in Composition and Conducting from the National University of Music Bucharest (RO). As an educator, Constantin has taught courses and conducted workshops at Stanford University, Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City, the 2016 Sound and Music Computing Summer School in Hamburg, and the International Center for Research and Education in Innovative Creative Technologies in Bucharest. He is the recipient of the 2018 Carolyn Applebaum Memorial Prize and the 2015 Chair’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Department of Music at Stanford University. Currently, Constantin is a postdoctoral scholar and the Concert Coordinator at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA).
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