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Category Archives: Northern Illinois University
Liquid Frequency
[Posting for a friend…] 1978 One afternoon following orchestra rehearsal, I was standing near the stage door and I noticed a tall, thin man with very long, dark hair. He had soft, brown eyes and chiseled features. I’d never seen … Continue reading
Posted in Bands, In memoriam, Liquid Frequency, Media, Northern Illinois University
Tagged Augie Ballou, bands, Chinary Ung, Chris Hyatt, DeKalb, Dennis Maxwell, E X Rator, ElectroComp, EML 200, Go Man, Liquid Frequency, NIU, Phil Pilcher, Rator, synth, synthesizers, The Pinz
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China Calling
We can all thank Chris Hyatt for his efforts to transcribe and preserve major portions of Eugene X. Rator’s oeuvre. The mountain of converted, digitized media is growing and some of us are following up now, editing and annotating, commenting … Continue reading
Posted in In memoriam, Media, Northern Illinois University, Performances, Politics
Tagged 1987, Beta, China, Concert Hall, E X Rator, Escher waves, Hagler vs. Leonard, Joseph Pinzarrone, NIU, sabbatical, satellite, tape, Xi'an
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collectors’ items
…in which I contemplate broken dolls and the sequencer of my dreams… I had the joy of a delayed childhood with regard to electronic music, which I discovered as a real thing sometime around 1985. I had no protracted formal … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Illinois University, Raison d'être
Tagged analog, Analog Studio, ARP, ElectroComp, EML, EML 200, EML 400, Moog, Putney, sample and hold, sequencer, synth, synthesizers
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Word from the Grave – ArtBus
In 1985, the Neoteric created and sponsored an event known as ArtBus. This ArtBus poster was a sendup of the Artrain logo ca. 1985 …another used photos from the electronic music studios The date stamp signaled Student Association approval Rebecca … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Neoteric Ensemble, Northern Illinois University, Performances, Politics
Tagged ArtBus, ArtTrain, DeKalb, Larry Nordstrom, NIU
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Word from the grave 13 May 13
In 1978, I accepted an offered teaching post at Northern Illinois University. My primary duty was to build a program in electronic and computer music to support the music composition department at both undergraduate and graduate levels. As a seminal … Continue reading
Posted in In memoriam, Media, Northern Illinois University, Performances
Tagged China, DeKalb, E X Rator, Northern Illinois University, Pinzarrone, Rator, sabbatical, Shanghai
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A passing
Eugene X Rator at New Music America, 1982 Whether you know him as Rick Calderon, Eugene, Rator, or someone else, he left the building for good on May 1, 2013. It will take some doing to craft a fitting memorial, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinco Labs, CoNoHuRaSo, Diaspora, In memoriam, Media, Northern Illinois University, Potato Engineers, Punto Cinco
Tagged Calderon, diaspora, E X Rator, Eugene, in memoriam, neoteric, Rator, Rick
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Still Bucka after all these years
On 5/3/13 2:09 AM, Jim Christopulos wrote: > Hi, > > Just found the Dekalborama website while doing a web search for Rick > Calderon. Just heard earlier that he passed on. Very, very sad news as > he was … Continue reading
To the Neoteric diaspora
Naturally, the web already has a “Diaspora Project.” But so shall dekalborama. And now I sense a digression coming on…. Redundancy is, after all, the new herald of popularity. Come to think of it, it was also the old one. … Continue reading
Posted in Bands, Diaspora, Media, MediaWiki, Neoteric Ensemble, Northern Illinois University, Projects, Raison d'être, WordPress
Tagged dekalborama, Google, hubris?, MediaWiki
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Tales of Power
Tales of Power was originally performed in 1976 at the University of Delaware. It was scored for the U of D dance theater company under the direction of Debra Loewen. The NIU poster was based on photos from the original … Continue reading
Branching out
…in which we start a whole new venture with a friend, applying lessons learned. Harking back to a decade spent—formatively—beyond the fringes of Chicago, we embarked this week on our second site-building romp with friend and mentor Joseph Pinzarrone: dekalborama.com … Continue reading
Posted in Northern Illinois University, Projects, Raison d'être, Site admininstration, WordPress
Tagged DeKalb, dekalborama, Illinois, Long Now, NIU, web site, wiki, WordPress
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