Current Members
Michael Brown is a MM student with a BA degree in Business from Columbia College. Professional experience includes recording, audio production, event coordination, remixing, and original compositions. His current musical focus is: Brain Wave Entrainment, Cymatics, Organ and Cellular vibrations, and musical structures that enhance human health. Genres of his music production include House music, Ambient, Soundscapes, and Musique concrète.
Nate Edwards is a MM student with a degree in Recording Technology and Music Merchandising from the University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh. Experience includes location recording, MIDI audio production, vocal and instrumental performance, live music management and video production. His website is located at: www.naterecording.com
Joshua K Marsh is an electronic composer currently living in the western suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. With years of experience in composing, recording, and producing music of numerous styles, this portfolio will primarily be dedicated to his aural accomplishments. Additionally, he has nearly a decade of experience in web and graphic design. As such, these works will be featured as well. Visit his website at: www.joshuakmarsh.com
Evan Merz (b. 1981) is a master’s candidate in NIU’s computer music program. He obtained a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Rochester in 2004. His music has been performed recently at New Music Hartford, and IMMArts TechArt 2008. His primary interest is computer-assisted composition, which he explores in new algorithmic composition programs written in java. Evan has composed music for many videogames, including five tracks for the million-selling game AudioSurf. He is also the blogger at computermusicblog.com.
Tim Moyers
Natee Prasanpanich
Former Members
Mike Bibby grew up in Warrenville (western suburb of Chicago), has been into weird music for as long as he can remember. He started programming Apple Basic on a IIGs in 5th grade, moving through several flavors of basic, C, and recently, Max/PD. He’s worked in serveral related fields (recording, mixing, arranging, performing, teaching, various audio/music for film/video) including several collaborations with the independent film production cooperative hyphenated-pictures.net. Mike’s primary focus is currently instrument development (physical and digital) and signal processing. He also teaches guitar, and rocks. hard.
His website is located at: www.bibbysound.com.
Karen Patton recently graduated from NIU’s Computer Music and New Media Technology program after having previously studied piano, guitar, voice, and music theory in New Mexico , New York and California . At NIU her studies included private computer music composition, private traditional composition, Western, Women’s and American Music History, World Music/Ethnomusicology, and secondary vocal studies. She also performed with the NIU University and Women’s choirs. She is a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda music honors society and Golden Key International Honour Society. She holds a B.A. in Political Science, a M.A. in Exercise Physiology, and a certificate from the Guitar Institute of Technology program of the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA. In April 2006, Patton presented a paper entitled “The Place of Whistling in the Musical Spectrum” at the Indiana University ’s Ethnomusicology conference entitled ‘Pushing Boundaries.’ Her composition, “Siberian Winds” was performed at the Society of Composers Student National Conference in October 2008 at Ball State University in Muncie , Indiana . For these, she was the recipient of two NIU Graduate Travel Awards. In addition, her composition, “21 Elevators” was performed at Boston Cyberarts/Wired for Sound festival held in Cambridge , Massachusetts on April 26, 2009 . Five of her works were performed at NIU for her Graduate Recital on April 9, 2009 , as well as performances of her works in NIU Annex Group recitals in 2007, 2008 and 2009. She also presented “The Wonderful World of Whistling” lecture and workshop (with whistler Fred Waidner) at NIU in May 2008. In addition, she wrote a successful proposal for an NIU Graduate Colloquium award to sponsor a performance held at NIU on September 30, 2007 by Ulrich Maiss, which included a U.S. premiere of his composition “CelloMachine – Variations on Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music.” Most recently, Patton taught a music writing workshop for the 2009 NIU Upward Bound summer program.