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“3rd Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Art,” A. William Smith, Computer Music Journal, Volume 28, Issue 4. and was its Director from 2003-2009. Geers also is a member of the Electric Music Collective and the electroacoustic band, Sønreel.“Festival Embodies a Range of Media: Music for ‘the brain,’ ‘the feet’ and ‘the gut’,” George Varga, San Diego Union Tribune, October 7, 2005.
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"A September Day Like No Other for a Downtown Family," Steve Smith, The New York Times, September 15, 2008."Lower Manhattan Libretto," Ryan Tracy, New York Press, September 8, 2008."Calling: An Opera of Forgiveness," Ron Cohen, Backstage, September 16, 2008.“Stirring Composers, Musicians and Theater Artists into a Stew,” Steven Smith, The New York Times, June 13, 2007. Sweep (2008) for PLOrk with violin and percussion"Laptops as Orchestra," Chicago Tribune, April 7, 2008. Laugh Perfumes (2006) violin concerto “Nova glasba razlicnih,” Pavel Mihelcic, Delo, November 30, 2006. Tremor Transducer (2004) for five instruments and computer Memory Dust (2003) for big band and computer Gilgamesh (2002) multimedia concerto/theater “Machtspiele: ‘Gilgamesh’ am Theater an der Sihl,” Thomas Schacher, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 24, 2002. Enkidu (2001) for violin and computer "Contemporary Music Forum," Andrew Lindemann Malone, The Washington Post, October 31, 2007. 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) “Electric Music Collective: Incandescance” and “Electric Music Collective: Defiant,” Corey Cheng, Computer Music Journal, Volume 29, Issue 3. 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