Events

June 14, 2020 – June 21, 2020
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
Installation of R for strings and hammers

past events

February 25, 2020
Shrove Tuesday Celebration, St. John’s Lutheran Church, Erie, PA
Gem City Jazz Ensemble
Joel Hunt, Director

December 28, 2019
Rooftop Project, Bourbon BarrelErie, PA
Joel Hunt, Soprano Saxophone

December 10, 2019
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director
Brandon Choi, Trumpet
Nelson Rivera, Tenor Saxophone

October 31, 2019
Joel Hunt – Allison Lourens Duo, Penn State Erie, Erie, PA
Modular synthesis demonstration/performance

October 16, 2019
JD Jazz and Blues, Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Soprano Saxophone

April 28, 2019
Bayfront Dixieland Band, St. Mary’s Home, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Soprano Saxophone

April 28, 2019
Bayfront Dixieland Band, St. Mary’s Home, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Soprano Saxophone

April 23, 2019
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director
Bruce Johnstone, Baritone Saxophone

April 16, 2019
Penn State Behrend Concert Band, Erie, PA
Gary Viebranz, Director
Joel Hunt, Saxophones

February 28, 2019
Penn State Behrend Concert Band, Erie, PA
Gary Viebranz, Director
Joel Hunt, Saxophones

February 1, 2019
Ussachevsky Memorial Festival of Electro Acoustic Music, Pomona College
Lyman Hall, Thatcher Music Building, Claremont, CA
Performance of Material for Viola and Electronics

December 6, 2018
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director

November 15, 2018
Penn State Behrend Concert Band, Erie, PA
Gary Viebranz, Director
Joel Hunt, Live Sound Diffusion

July 21, 2018
New York City Electronic Music Festival, Abrons Art Center, New York, NY
Performance of Material for Cello and Electronics

July 16-18, 2018
Keystone DH, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Presentation of the Penn State Erie Sound and Music Map

May 8, 2018
Blend DLA, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Panel discussion on blended learning and digital humanities research

April 25, 2018
Penn State Behrend Concert Band, Erie, PA
Gary Viebranz, Director
Joel Hunt, Tenor Saxophone

April 24, 2018
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director
Evan Dobbins, Trombone
CJ Ziarniak, Tenor Saxophone
Charlie Carr, Trumpet

March 30, 2018
Penn State Digital Media, Arts, and Technology Festival, Erie, PA
Presentation of the Penn State Erie Sound and Music Map

March 29, 2018
Penn State Digital Media, Arts, and Technology Festival, Erie, PA
Interview with Daniel Armbruster of Joywave.

February 27, 2018
Penn State Behrend Concert Band, Erie, PA
Gary Viebranz, Director
Joel Hunt, Tenor Saxophone

December 5, 2017
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director
Evan Dobbins, Trombone
Quinn Lawrence, Tenor Saxophone

October 6 – October 22, 2017
Chicago the Musical, Academy Theatre, Meadville, PA
Joel Hunt, Woodwinds

June 28 – July 1, 2017
European Music Analysis Conference, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Presentation of “From Process to Performance: Text-Based Improvisation in Henry Brant’s Instant Music”

July 14-16, 2017
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY
Performance of Knock for piano and resonance

April 25, 2017
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director
John Troy, Alto Saxophone

April 18, 2017
Penn State Behrend Concert Band, Erie, PA
Gary Viebranz, Director
Joel Hunt, Saxophones

March 19-23, 2017
International Musicology Society, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Presentation of “Spatial Panoramas: Henry Brant’s 1980s Compositions on Environmental Themes”

March 31, 2017
Penn State Digital Media, Arts, and Technology Festival, Erie, PA
Performances of Christopher Jette’s v->t->d and Psionic
Joel Hunt, Saxophones

December 9, 2016
Young People’s Chorus of Erie Fall Concert, Erie, PA
Gabrielle Dietrich, Director
Joel Hunt, Alto Saxophone Soloist

December 1, 2016
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director
Brendan Lanighan, Trombone

September 29, 2016
International Music Theory and Analysis Conference, Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali, Rimini, Italy
Presentation of “From Process to Performance: Compositional Process as Framework for Text-Based Improvisation in Henry Brant’s Instant Music”

June 17, 2016
Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia
Performance of “University of Victoria Interactive Music and Sound Map”

April 25, 2016
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Spring Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director
Mike Kaupa, Trumpet

April 21, 2016
Guest Soloist, Concert Band, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, PA
Performance of “Catch Me If You Can,”  John Williams, arr. Jay Bocook
Gary Viebranz, Director
Joel Hunt, Alto Saxophone Soloist

April 16, 2016
TEDxPSUErie, Pennsylvania State University, Erie, PA
Performance of Saxophony for soprano saxophone and iPhone controller

February 26, 2016
2016 SCI Region III Conference, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
Performance of R for Strings and Hammers

March 14, 2016
Guest Lecture, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Presentation of “Compositional Process as Framework for Text-Based Improvisation in Henry Brant’s Instant Music”

December 10, 2015
Penn State Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert, Erie, PA
Joel Hunt, Director
John Troy, Tenor Saxophone

November 19-21, 2015
Electronic Music Midwest, Kansas City Community College, Kansas City, KS
Performance of Two Movements for Modular Synthesizer

September 29, 2015
International Computer Music Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
Performance of Material for viola and electronics

October 1-3, 2015
Electroacoustic Barn Dance, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
Performance of On Sounds for live electronics

October 8-10, 2015
Tracking the Creative Process in Music, Centre Pompidou and IRCAM, Paris
Presentation of “From Process to Performance: Compositional Process as Framework for Text-Based Improvisation in Henry Brant’s Instant Music”

June 22, 2015
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
Performance of Two Movements for Modular Synthesizer

April 12, 2015
UCSB Montage Concert, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

March 17, 2015
Guest Lecture, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Presentation of “Unifying a Diverse Output: Audible Ramifications of ‘Prose-Report Composition’ in the Music of Henry Brant”

March 6, 2015
N_SEME 2015, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Performance of Material for viola and electronics

March 7, 2015
Society for American Music, Sacramento, CA
Presentation of “Indeterminacy in the Music of Henry Brant: Toward a Framework for ‘Controlled Improvisation’”

Feb 12, 2015
Digital Research and Pedagogy Lecture Series, Penn State University, Erie, PA
Presentation of “Blurring Boundaries and Breaking Barriers: Integrating Composition, Improvisation, and Technology in the 21st Century”

December 8, 2014 – February 1, 2015
Faculty Arts Show, Penn State University, Erie, PA
Installation of R for strings and hammers

November 7, 2014
Society for Music Theory, Milwaukee, WI
Presentation of “Oblique Harmony in Henry Brant’s Variations for Four Instruments

September 19, 2014
European Music Analysis Conference, Leuven, Belgium
Presentation of “Indeterminacy in the Music of Henry Brant: Toward a Framework for ‘Controlled Improvisation’”

September 16, 2014
International Computer Music Association and Sound and Music Computing Joint Conference, Athens, Greece
Performance of Saxophony for soprano saxophone and iPhone controller

May 29, 2014
Canadian University Music Society, Brock University, St. Catherines, ON
Presentation of “Indeterminacy in the Music of Henry Brant: Toward a Framework for ‘Controlled Improvisation’”

April 26, 2014
Primavera Festival of Contemporary Arts and Digital Media, Loxodroming III, with Ignition Duo, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance of Luke Taylor’s Embers

April 24, 2014
Primavera Festival of Contemporary Arts and Digital Media, Old Little Theater, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

April 10, 2014
Now Hear Ensemble: Made in California, Fisher Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

October 14, 2013
Now Hear Ensemble: Made in California, Mills College, Oakland, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

October 13, 2013
Now Hear Ensemble: Made in California, CNMAT, UC Berkeley, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

October 12, 2013
Now Hear Ensemble: Made in California, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

October 10, 2013
Tracking the Creative Process in Music, McGill University, Quebec
Presentation of “Unifying a Diverse Output: Audible Ramifications of ‘Prose-Report Composition’ in the Music of Henry Brant”

April 27, 2013
California Electronic Music Exchange Concert, ROD Concert Hall, Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Performance of Saxophony for soprano saxophone and iPhone controller

April 26, 2013
Primavera Festival of Contemporary Arts and Digital Media, Loxodroming II, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance of Joel Hunt’s Variable Loops
Performance of Clarence Barlow’s Approximating Pi

April 24, 2013
CREATE: Cosmic Klang, Primavera Festival 2013, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance of Clarence Barlow’s Approximating Pi

March 15, 2013
West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, Irvine, CA
Presentation of “Compositional Process in the Postwar Music of Henry Brant”

March 31, 2013
Studio Series: Spring 2013, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Los Angeles, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

March 30, 2013
Studio Series: Spring 2013, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), Los Angeles, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

November 13, 2012
Paul Sacher Stiftung Colloquium, Basil, Switzerland
Presentation of “Unifying a Diverse Output: Audible Ramifications of ‘Prose-Report Composition’ in the Music of Henry Brant”

June 14, 2012
Muddy Waters Cafe, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

April 21, 2012
Temporality: Issues of Change and Stasis in Music, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Presentation of “Metrical Dissonance in the Music of Steve Reich”

April 14, 2012
Primavera Festival of Contemporary Arts and Digital Media, Loxodroming I, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance with the Now Hear Ensemble

February 26, 2012
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Performance of Perishable Music with the Now Hear Ensemble