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Eli Fieldsteel

  • Assistant Professor of Composition-Theory
  • Director, Experimental Music Studios

Email

eli@illinois.edu

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Composition - Theory
Music Technology
CS + Music

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Illinois School of Music Announces New Degree Program in Computer Science and Music (CS + Music)

BA (Music), Brown University; MM (Composition), The University of North Texas; DMA (Composition), The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Eli Fieldsteel, serving as Director of the University of Illinois Experimental Music Studios since 2016, is a composer specializing in music technology with a diverse history of cross-disciplinary collaboration. He is the recipient of the 2014 James E. Croft Grant for Young and Emerging Wind Band Composers, first prize in the 2012 ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Commission Competition, as well as awards and recognition from other organizations, including the Bandmasters Academic Society of Japan and the Frank Ticheli Competition. His music has been performed nationally and internationally by ensembles such as the Dallas Wind Symphony, the North Texas Symphony Orchestra, the Kawagoe Sohwa Wind Ensemble of Tokyo, and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Wind Ensemble. His music is published under Lovebird Music, and has been recorded on the SEAMUS and Aerocade Music record labels. He is a student of Cindy McTee, Jon Christopher Nelson, Bruce Pennycook, Russell Pinkston, and Gerald Shapiro.

Fieldsteel's music and research engages with the intersection between music technology and performance, focusing on topics such as human-computer improvisation, interactivity, and sensor-driven music. Utilizing new technologies and real-time environments, his works are highly gestural, expressive, and richly detailed. As an active collaborator, he has worked closely with dancers, choreographers, lighting designers, architects, and video artists, resulting in a variety of unique and site-specific installations and performances. He is fluent in several contemporary music programming languages, and maintains an active teaching presence online through a well-trafficked series of SuperCollider tutorials.

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