Performance and Publication Details

12/2022 “Wild Heights sown with sorrow”  for solo piano.  Written for  “Music, Poetry, and War: A History of Ukrainian Defiance” at City of Asylum, Pittsburgh. https://cityofasylum.org/program/music-poetry-and-war/

Aetheric Halo engraved in the Etheric chamber of the Moon Ark, http://moonarts.org/about/

exhibited at:

01/2019 Centre Pompidou Hors Piste 14e edition (La Lubne: Zone Imaginaire à Défendre). https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/cgEBA5z
09/2017 Carnegie Museum of Natural History / Pittsburgh and in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian. https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2022/june/moonark-twin-joins-permanent-collection-at-the-smithsonian

Also featured in 03/2016 Trondheim Biennale for Art & Technology / Norway; 09/2017 Thrival Festival / Pittsburgh; 10/2017 International Council of Museums / ICOM NATHIST ;11/2017 Galeria Miejska bwa in Bydgoszcz / Poland; 09/2018 5th Int’l Festival of NanoArt / Heraklion, Crete; 10/2018 New Worlds Conference / Austin, Texas; 12/2018 CMUThink Bay Area / Palo Alto, California; 06/2019 Museum of Fine Arts / Budapest, Hungary; 10/2019 Miller Institute of Contemporary Art / Pittsburgh; 11/2019 Matsudo International Science Art Festival / Japan

2016. Rotterdam Transmission. With Lowry Burgess, composed and broadcast to the Andromeda galaxy as part of the Moon Arts program.  Broadcast transmitted from Dwingeloo Radio Telescope, Netherlands.  https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2016/december/symphony-to-the-stars.htmlbroadcast composed and transmitted from the Dwingeloo radio telescope.

2014 Moon dance CMU School of Drama choreography based on Moon Ikon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAe4gPk3Ehw

2013 Moon Ikon  presented at ISAW4:  the 4th International Space Arts workshop at NASA Ames.  Moon Ikon is music composed and based on the sonicisation of the Lunar surface. http://www.taksha.org/event/TFA721

2011  Performance of Astro-Ballet commissioned as part of the UNESCO celebration of the anniversary of first manned spaceflight with cooperation from the Permanent Delegation of the Russian Federation to UNESCO, the Bureau of Strategic Planning, the Natural Sciences sector of UNESCO and the organization Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/mwg-internal/de5fs23hu73ds/progress?id=cqryYrB1lv3TqVltYD-7z6Jy6iD-ZiNentfjjkCdEZo%2C&Cancel=1

2010 presented a keynote address at UNESCO forum "Music as a catalyst for dialogue and communication" http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/unesco-house/?tx_browser_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=1789&cHash=f03ef4bc18

2009 Andrew Kaiser features in AstroRama by Squonk Opera http://squonkopera.org/astro-rama/ https://youtu.be/nps3BAmM0Vw

2008 Yuri’s Night Bay Area.  Composed I see the earth and it is beautiful executed with with commander Peggy Whitson and Crewmember Garrett Reisman of the 16th expedition of the international space station as part of the Deep Space Signaling Group at the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.

2008 - 2010 Associate Fellow STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.  http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org/peoples/andrew-kaiser.  Founding member Deep Space Signaling Group with Lowry Burgess

2005 Interviewed for The Wire: The Impact of Electricity on Music first aired on CBC Radio.  http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/the-wire-the-digital-democracy-of-sound-1.4234253

2005 Work with Doug Vakoch to define composed Extra-Terrestrial message using Fibonacci series exhibited at San Francisco Exploratorium.  http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/arecibo/tools/vakoch.html

2004 7th workshop on Space and the Arts at Noordwijk, sponsored by Leonardo and the European Space Agency.  Presented paper and composition for Didgeridoo and Radio Telescope.

2002 The Art and Science of Interstellar Message composition.  Paper presented at the Paris workshop on music as a source for generic messaging material.  Andrew Kaiser's presentation, "Sound as Intercultural Communication: A Meta-Analysis of Music with Implications for SETI.” https://muse.jhu.edu/article/52543/summary

 

Writings on Space Aesthetics

Keynote speaker at the International Forum on Music as a Catalyst for Cultural Dialogue and Communication, sponsored by Melody for Dialogue among Civilizations, the American University in Paris, and UNESCO. (June, 2010.  Paris)

Interview and performance featured in ‘The Wire’, a documentary for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio analyzing the intersection of electricity and music. (Winter 2005)

 Interview featured in ‘First Impressions’, a documentary for BBC Radio 4 discussing the construction of meaning in Extra Terrestrial messages. (Fall 2004)

Voices of the Noosphere .  Music and analysis presented at the 7th Annual Space Art conference, sponsored by Leonardo Journal and the European Space Agency. (Spring 2004)

Music for Didgeridoo and electronics performed at The art and Science of Interstellar Communication conference, sponsored by SETI Institute (April 2002) (http://publish.seti.org/general/articles.php?id=87)

 Sound as Intercultural Communication: A Meta-Analysis of Music paper presented at The art and Science of Interstellar Communication conference, sponsored by SETI (April 2002) Institute (http://publish.seti.org/art_science/french/abstract_listing.php?language=e)

Message composition material with Doug Vakoch (SETI Institute)  included in online exhibit “Origins”, designed by The Exploratorium Science Center, San Francisco.  (http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/arecibo/tools/vakoch.html) (Spring 2004)

Interviewed in podcast discussing Extraterrestrials and Music (hosted by Michael Schirber, also includes interview with Doug Vakoch).  Astrobiology Magazine (April 2011)

Early/Student Work

 University of California, Long Beach Summer music festival, participant in Composer workshop.  Performance of Merlin Dances (August 1998)

Performance of Merlin Dances for Chamber ensemble, by Prism New Music ensemble (May 1998, Pittsburgh)

Sound design and composition for regional theatre production, Skryker

Piano composition Four Fantasy Pieces selected for performance at the College Music Society conference (1997)

Commissioned for choral work for  Bethany College W.V (1996)