Scott Deal has been selected as one of eight faculty members who have been awarded the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities Fellowship for 2023. The program supports stellar IU faculty with an academic year fellowship that accelerates and amplifies their Continue Reading …
The Vibraphone Modulator was conceived by Scott Deal at the Tavel Center, IUPUI. Joining Deal in the project was a team of professors and graduate students in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology that included Electrical and Computing Engineering Continue Reading …
I’m honored to perform on Gina Biver’s new CD, “Nimbus”, and participate in the world premiere concerts in Washington DC. Nimbus is an artistic collaboration between composer Gina Biver and poet Colette Inez that allows the listener a glance into Continue Reading …
At IUPUI’s Tavel Lab, Jason Palamara and I have been collaborating on the production of self-driving musical software that listens to a vibraphone player and improvises along side. This performance shows a performance that was featured at the Summer Intensive in Continue Reading …
Composed and performed by Scott Deal, Goldstream Variations (2012) creates an interconnected system through live music, electronics, and machine learning algorithms. The variations are scored for one to seven musicians on undetermined acoustic instruments, together with electronic/computer artists. The selection Continue Reading …
The Percussion Computer Media Collection has just been released. Years in the making, the collection consists of six electroacoustic works for percussion soloist or chamber musicians. An accompanying album will be released in 2018. All of the works come complete Continue Reading …
Big Robot has been hard at work in the studio for the past year, and is now beginning to release a collection of works via video and audio. We did a series of video shoots with the fabulous guys at Continue Reading …
In 2014, my work Goldstream Variations was performed by members of the New World Symphony, together over the Internet with IUPUI’s Telematic Collective. The performance consisted of a quartet of NWS musicians performing at the New World Hall in Miami Continue Reading …
I recently served as host and director for the Percussive Arts Society International Convention Technology Day, which was held at IUPUI. The day was filled with clinics, computer lab Continue Reading …
Big Robot is having a great year, especially with the release of our first album, which came out in July 2013. To celebrate, we held a concert in Indianapolis at the historical Irving Theater. Performing with us was harpist Erzsébet Continue Reading …