2007 ROBERT HELPS FESTIVAL PRIZE WINNER
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Kyong Mee Choi, composer
Winning work: Gestural Trajectory Dr. Choi went to the Chicago College of Performing Arts and Roosevelt University as a member of the Music Conservatory Faculty after studying music composition, science education (specializing chemistry), and Korean literature at four institutions in two different regions of the United States and her native South Korea. Dr. Choi, composer, organist, painter, and visual artist, mainly works for chamber, electro-acoustic, interactive, and multi-media music. Her composition has also incorporated algorithmic compositional devices, geometric charts, visual art and analogues of musical elements with non-musical concepts. She has also been active as a painter, which has led her to experiment with integrating sound and image into a single artwork. She has had many works recognized in numerous places, such as the 2003 Luigi Russolo International Electroacoustic Competition, the 2003 ASCAP/SEAMUS, the Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São Paulo, the 2004 Australasin Computer Music Conference, MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA in Ecuador, Third Practice in Virginia, the 2004 International Computer Music Association, the 4th Annual Electroacoustic Musical Festival in Santiago de Chile, Palmarès du 31e Concours International de Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges 2004: Degré I-RESIDENCE, Spectrum Press and the Los Angeles Sonic Odyssey Electronic and Computer Music Concert Series 2005, Merging Voices: the Fourth Annual Women in New Music Festival 2005, Music Beyond Performance: SoundImageSound III, Electronic Music Midwest 2005, SEAMUS 2005, 32rd International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art/Bourges 2005, NODUS concert 2005, CMS Conference in Quebec, 2005, MUSICA NOVA 2005, and she also won the second prize at VI CIMESP 2005 Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de SãoPaulo. She was also awarded the ASCAP/SEAMUS Student Composition Commission 1st prize Award. Her piece was also chosen for SCI/CMS 2006, EMM 2006, ICMC 2006 and Palmarès du 33e Concours Internationaux de Musique et d¹Art Sonore Electroacoustiques de Bourges, 2006. As a researcher she worked in the CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) as part of the Virtual Music Project where she developed real-time audio synthesis patch in Max/MSP to respond to user/performer gestures. Her dissertation topic is the study of spatial relationships in painting and electro-acoustic music.
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