2025 SCHEDULE

11:00AM WELCOME

Welcome and Opening Announcements – Margot Lane

11:00AM – 6:00PM

Synth Petting Zoo: Bring your Gear! – GOCA Lobby

12:00PM – 7:30PM INSTALLATION

GOCA Gallery Rotating Music Performance for Patrick Shearn’s (Artist) – Psycullescence: A Garden of Imagination, Gallery of Contemporary Art

12:00 – 1:00PM DEMO

AMBIENT / DOWNTEMPO PERFORMANCE TECHNIQUES – Margot Lane
Aperture

1:00-3:00PM – CONCERT

Community Showcase – Margot Lane
Mike Berry & Jon Forshee, Josh Abernathy, JJ Maynell, E_J_R_M, James Collins, Jon Sulzbach, Egghead9

4:00-6:00PM CONCERT

DJ Session, Margot Lane
Levi Pacione, Bowman Hall, Cole Mahon,
Noah Paculan & Zyfelix

5:30-7:00PM SOCIAL HOUR

GOCA Lobby

7:30PM Guest Concert

Aperture | Mark Mosher | Chris Meyer, Margot Lane

10:00AM WELCOME

Introductions & Announcements, Margot Lane Studio.

10:30AM LECTURE

Anysia Hovel, Music and Cymatics, Conference Room

11:00 – 12:00PM DEMO

Chris Meyer, set breakdown and demonstration – Margot

12:00 – 12:45PM TALK

Conor Bourgal, Conference Room
TRANSFORMING AND RECONTEXTUALIZING FIELD RECORDINGS IN COMPOSITION
Bourgal will discuss the creation of his two works presented at Electrowave 2025, along with the concepts and influences behind them.

12:00PM – 7:30PM INSTALLATION

GOCA Gallery Rotating Music Performance for Patrick Shearn’s (Artist) – Psycullescence: A Garden of Imagination, Gallery of Contemporary Art

1:00 – 2:30 PANEL

AI & Music: Composing Today and in the Near Future Margot Lane Studio
with Kerry Hagan, Miller Puckette, Chris Meyer, Reiner Krämer, Mike Berry, Levi Pacione

3:00 – 5:00PM CONCERT

UCCS & Guests Showcase – Margot Lane
Featuring Reiner Krämer, Chris Swanson, Rodrigo Sigal,
Cecilia Wu, Ben Shankland, Joseph Marsh, Kaleb Crouch,
Blue Asa (Julia Brochey & Brian Levy), Eliza Garza, Cory Cullinan & Riley Max, UCCS ElectroAcoustic Music Ensemble

5:30 – 6:30PM PRESENTATION

Julia Brochey and Brian Levy, Margot Lane

5:30 – 6:30 LECTURE

SURCO – Room 245
IMPROVISED LIVE PERFORMANCE TECHNIQUES
Eric Turner (Surco) Leads a demonstration and discussion on setting up and playing 100% improvised live performances. Real-time live production in front of an audience while keeping the performance from going off the rails. The thrill of risking it all to keep the performance fresh and unique.

7:00PM CONCERT

Guest Concert – Chapman Hall
Featuring Christopher Otto
The Higgs Whatever

9:30PM After Party

Bar-K, 124 E. Costilla St, Colorado Springs, 80903
Featuring: Sine Mountain, Devin James Fry, Jacob Porter, Metamyther, The Redside, SURCO, Wise, and more.

10:30AM WELCOME

Welcome & Announcements

11:00 – 12:30 CONCERT

Front Range Waves – Special Guest Concert – Margot Lane

1:00 – 3:00 – CONCERT

CMSS Showcase – Margot Lane

3:15 – 4:30PM TALK

THE HISTORY OF BANANAS IN ELECTRONIC MUSIC – Margot
Early Modular Synthesis looked very different to today’s popular Eurorack format. Some brands and formats that started it all are still around and continue to influence electronic music. Join us for a history lesson full of bleeps, bloops, Buchlas, Serge and more with synth aficionado Jame Collins and Professor Michael Schulze.

3:15 – 4:30PM TALK

BRINGING NARRATIVE FLOW TO YOUR MUSIC – Rm. 245
with Justin Tinker and Mike Berry.

4:45 -5:30PM – WORKSHOP

DESIGNING FRONT PANELS USING PCBs – Room 245
Did you ever wonder how the “black and gold” style module panels popularized by Make Noise, Instruo, and others are made? Nick Donaldson from Infrasonic Audio explains the process and constraints of designing these types of front panels and blanks using Printed Circuit Board manufacturing techniques.

4:45 -5:30PM – TALK

RETHINKING YOUR MUSIC WITH CONCEPTS FROM LITERATURE AND FILM – Metamyther – Room 128

5:00 – 6:30PM – CONCERT

NOISE Session – Margot Lane
Featuring Dead Hawk, Andrew Alvey, Chorus of Stone, Poison Cough, Andrew Weathers and more.

6:30 – 6:45PM PERFORMANCE

Colin McAllister – Margot Lane

7:00PM – Guest Concert

Krämer & Forshee | Metamyther | Synsor – Chapman Hall