SPLICE Electronic Improv Ensemble (SpEIE) Concert Program
Saturday June 28, 2025
3:30pm EDT
Multimedia Room, Western Michigan University
Livestream simulcast on SPLICE YouTube (unique link)
Pre-show: Animals & Synthesizers Demo
Led by Elainie Lillios
SPLICE Electronic Improv Ensemble (SpEIE)
Led by Adam Vidiksis
Anne La Berge : Change - 10'
Full ensemble
featuring Anne La Berge, flute
Duo - 5'
Nate Krebs, voice & electronics
Hayden Mesnick, accordion & electronics
Trio - 5'
Jack Synoski, double bass & electronics
Megan Denslinger, Eb clarinet & electronics
Maria Mykolenko, violin
Maria Mykolenko : Offerings - 7'
Full ensemble
featuring Maria Mykolenko, violin & electronics
Duo - 5'
Hamish Robb, modular synthesizer
Jer Tittle, modular system
Trio - 5'
Chase Hampton, horn
Josiah Pervis, electric guitar
Zilu Wang, voice & piano
Improvisation - 10'
Full ensemble
SPLICE Electronic Improv Ensemble is:
Chase Hampton
Hamish Robb
Hayden Mesnick
Jack Synoski
Josiah Pervis
Megan Denslinger
Nate Krebs
Zilu Wang
Maria Mykolenko
Jer Tittle
Animals and Synthesizers is:
Alexis Aguilar
David Colson
Indigo Knecht
Josif Collazo
Luciano Lopez-Parnetti
Maria Mykolenko
Molly Kay Wenzel
Notes
SPLICE Electronic Improv Ensemble (SpEIE):
It's at SPLICE ✔, it's an ensemble ✔, and everyone is improvising ✔ with electronics ✔. Thus the name.
Animals and Synthesizers:
Video projects created by the Animals and Synthesizers team. You will see animals. You will hear synthesizers. There will be much merriment.
Bios
Acclaimed as one of the “contemporary masters of the medium” by MIT Press’s Computer Music Journal, Elainie Lillios creates works that reflect her fascination with listening, sound, space, time, immersion, and anecdote. Her compositions include stereo, multi-channel, and Ambisonic fixed media works, instrument(s) with live electronics, collaborative experimental audio/visual animations, and installations. She also performs live electronics with ESC Trio collaborators Chris Biggs and Scott Deal and with Origami Sound Society collaborator Mark Nagy.
Elainie’s work has been recognized internationally and nationally through awards, grants, and commissions, including a 2020 Johnstone Foundation commission, 2018 Fromm Foundation Commission, 2016 Barlow Endowment Commission, and 2013 Fulbright Scholar Award. She won First Prize in the Concours Internationale de Bourges, Areon Flutes International Composition Competition, Electroacoustic Piano International Competition, and Medea Electronique “Saxotronics” Competition. She has also received awards from the Destellos International Electroacoustic Competition, Concurso Internacional de Música Electroacústica de São Paulo, Concorso Internazionale Russolo, Pierre Schaeffer Competition, and others.
She has received grants/commissions from INA/GRM, Rèseaux, International Computer Music Association, La Muse en Circuit, New Adventures in Sound Art, ASCAP/SEAMUS, LSU’s Center for Computation and Technology, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Ohio Arts Council, and National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts. She has been a special guest at the Groupe de Recherche Musicales, Rien à Voir, festival l’espace du son, June in Buffalo, and at other locations in the United States and abroad.
Reviews of Elainie’s compact disc Entre Espaces (available on Empreintes DIGITALes at electrocd.com) praise her work for being “… elegantly assembled, and immersive enough to stand the test of deep listening” and as “…a journey not to be missed.” Other works are published by Centaur, Innova, MSR Classics, Ravello, StudioPANaroma, Musiques et recherches, La Muse en Circuit, New Adventures in Sound Art, SEAMUS, Irritable Hedgehog and Leonardo Music Journal.
Elainie serves as Director of Composition Activities for SPLICE (www.splicemusic.org) and as Professor of Creative Arts Excellence at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
Adam Vidiksis is a drummer and composer based in Philadelphia who explores social structures, science, and the intersection of humankind with the machines we build. His music examines technological systems as artifacts of human culture, acutely revealed in the slippery area where these spaces meet and overlap—a place of friction, growth, and decay. Vidiksis is a sought-after champion of new works for percussion and electronics, performing as a featured artist in venues around the world. Vidiksis’s music has won numerous awards and grants, including recognition from the Society of Composers, Incorporated, the American Composers Forum, New Music USA, National Endowment for the Arts, Chamber Music America, and ASCAP. His works are available through HoneyRock Publishing, EMPiRE, New Focus, PARMA, and SEAMUS Records. Vidiksis recently served as composer in residence for the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and was selected by the NEA and Japan-US Friendship Commission, serving as Director of Arts Technology for a performance of a new work during the 2020 Olympics in Japan. Vidiksis is Assistant Professor of music technology at Temple University and President of SPLICE Music. He performs in SPLICE Ensemble and the Transonic Orchestra, conducts Ensemble N_JP, and directs the Boyer College Electroacoustic Ensemble Project (BEEP).