IAAA - Institute for the Advancement of Aural Arts

INSTITUTE FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF AURAL ARTS

Institute for the Advancement of Aural Arts (IAAA): An International Visiting Faculty For Creative Musicians

UPCOMING EVENTS:

1/20/11: Ron Sword is presenting a "Microtonal Guitar

Masterclass" lecture and concert at the University of Tampa

hosted by composer Dr. Bradford Blackburn.

11/17/10: Ron Sword is presenting a lecture and concert

at the University California Santa Barbara for the CREATE

concert hosted by electronic music composer Dr. Curtis

Roads. The lecture, "Microtonal Temperaments, Experi-

mental Intonation, and an Overview of the Unexplored

Musical Resources within the Harmonic Series"

3/8-10/10: Ron Sword contributed a lecture and concert

pieces at the historical 2010 Bohlen Pierce Symposium hosted

by composer Georg Hajdu, and the Boston Microtonal Society:

"Between March 7 and March 9, 2010, the Boston Microtonal

Society and visiting composer Georg Hajdu of the Hochschule

für Musik und Theatre in Hamburg will be collaborating with the

Goethe Institute, Northeastern University, the Berklee School

of Music, and the New England Conservatory in a symposium

devoted to the Bohlen-Pierce microtonal scale. Over three days,

these institutions will be hosting an exciting series of concerts,

lectures and demonstrations showcasing the work of theorists,

composers, inventors and performers from several different

countries. We are thrilled by the list of people who will be here

in our midst, a list which includes some of the most important

figures in the worlds of computer music and microtonal music. "

- from the Boston Microtonal Society's website. Check out the official