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Douglas Geers is an American composer, and the founder of the Spark Festival.
Career
Geers is an associate professor of music composition and director of the Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music (BC-CCM) at the City University of New York, Brooklyn College (USA). He had been a professor of music at the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA), where he founded the Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts and was its Director from 2003-2009. Geers also is a member of the Electric Music Collective and the electroacoustic band, Sønreel.
Education
Geers received a B.A. in English and Music from Xavier University, a M.A. in Music from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a D.M.A. from Columbia University in 2002. From 2000 to 2001, he completed a one-year research/composition residency at the Norwegian Center for Music in Technology and the Arts in Oslo, Norway. His teachers include Fred Lerdahl, Tristan Murail, Brad Garton, Jonathan Kramer, George Edwards, Allen Sapp (composer), Frederick Bianchi, and Darrell Handel.
Selected works
Inanna (2009) multimedia theater
Calling (2008) opera
Sweep (2008) for PLOrk with violin and percussion
Laugh Perfumes (2006) violin concerto
Tremor Transducer (2004) for five instruments and computer
Memory Dust (2003) for big band and computer
Gilgamesh (2002) multimedia concerto/theater
Enkidu (2001) for violin and computer
Reality House (1998) for chamber septet
Ripples (1997) electroacoustic music
Recordings
Love Paint
Music for Fish
60x60 2006
SEAMUS 20th Anniversary Electroclips
60x60 2005
Defiant (Electric Music Collective)
Incandescence (Electric Music Collective)
60x60
Sonic Circuits IX
Music from SEAMUS, volume ten
References
External links
Douglas Geers' website
Brooklyn College Center for Computer Music
College Conservatory of Music