This recital is presented and curated by Doug McCausland.

Program

Doug McCausland: [re]Glossolalia

McCausland: ENTANGLEMENT

About Doug McCausland

Douglas McCausland is a composer / performer, sound designer, and digital artist whose visceral and often chaotic works explore the extremes of sound, technology, and the digital medium.

Described as “Tremendously powerful, dark, and sometimes terrifying…” (SEAMUS), his works have been performed internationally, including festivals such as: Sonorities, SEAMUS, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, MISE-EN Music Festival, Klingt Gut!, Sounds Like THIS!, NYCEMF, Sonicscape, and Ars Electronica.  Recent honors include an award of distinction in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica for his piece “Convergence”, winning 1st-Prize in the 2021 ASCAP/SEAMUS commission competition, and the gold-prize award for “contemporary computer music” in the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister 3D Audio Production Competition.

As an artist, he researches and leverages the intersections of numerous technologies and creative practices, such as real-time electronic music performance with handmade interfaces, spatial audio, dynamic and interactive systems, intermedia art, the musical applications of machine-learning, experimental sound design, and hardware-hacking.

Doug is the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Studio Manager at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.  He also recently completed his DMA in music composition at Stanford University.  While at Stanford, he studied with Chris Chafe, Patricia Alessandrini, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, and Mark Applebaum.