This weekend is the Spring Unruly Music Festival, and features both performances and new piece premieres of mine. Friday night I’ll be performing in Cage’s Song Books. Saturday night an acoustic piece of mine, Pixelism, will be premiered by the Dal Niente ensemble. I’ll also be joining the group on stage for a piece involving …
Chris Huelsbeck and Amy Lee, part of the San Francisco Electronic Music Meetup, have started a video podcast to discuss news, tools, and techniques for electronic musicians. The show is aimed at those who use new tools for electronic music production, including iOS apps and interfaces. Episode 1 features an in-depth interview about TC-11, its origins and future. …
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‘Collision’ is a piece that revolves around a machine conductor that directs the players and their improvisations. The conductor decides when and how to ‘collide’ the players together, forcing them to play at the same moment in the same way. This is the driving force of the piece: players can improvise in and out of …
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Seth Warren-Crow and I pair together the tabla and TC-11 to see just how similar the two musical interfaces are, in performance and sonority. These pieces were taken from an evening of exploring short-form improvisations. Three Short Improvisations (For Hands) Part I from Kevin Schlei on Vimeo. Three Short Improvisations (For Hands) Part II from …
On December 14th, my long-term project TC-11 was finally unleashed into the wild. Now it is live (alive?), and in the hands of users who will make it their own. But I wanted to take a moment to thank a few people for their support. My colleagues in the electronic music department at UWM, Chris …
On December 18th I’ll be joining a new group of Milwaukee musicians in the debut performance of the Great Lakes Improvising Orchestra. The performance will include exciting improvisation, electronics, and acoustic performance. The show is at Woodland Patter, and starts at 2:00. The debut performance—an afternoon of open form collective improvisation—will include a cross-neighborhood gathering …
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David Collins and I will be performing this Thursday night, 7:30, at Vogel Hall as part of the Unruly Music Festival. We have an exciting set of pieces that use multi-touch controllers, motion sensors, and networked laptops to drive our custom synthesis code. The second half of the concert features UWM composers Chris Burns and …
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This Sunday, the Lynden Sculpture Garden will be presenting a collaborative work between Lynn Tomaszewski and myself titled ‘Drams, Whits, Scintillas.’ From the Lynden site: ‘Drams, Whits, Scintillas,’ a multimedia installation incorporating video, sound and drawing by Lynn Tomaszewski and Kevin Schlei, brings the garden into the gallery and spreads back out onto the grounds. …
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This Friday David Collins and I will be performing at the Sugar Maple as part of Gallery Night. We’ve got some premiere pieces, innovative control schemes, and live video. It should be a great night! Here’s the info: Location: Sugar Maple Friday – June 3rd Featuring Collision: Directed improvisation with multi-touch synthesis + visuals Poly …
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I’m happy to announce that my new app – Invisible Drum Set – is available on the iTunes App Store. Invisible Drum Set is the drumming app for iPhone 4 and iPod Touch (4th generation) that lets you play 16 drums out of thin air. Using the gyroscope sensor, it recognizes movement between different floating ‘drums’ when you …
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