The Frost School of Music has been selected to host the 26th Annual Festival and Conference of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS). The event will feature some 14 concerts, sound installations, papers, and two special multimedia listening rooms from January 20 to 22, with concerts taking place at Gusman and Clarke Recital Halls. All concerts are free and open to the public.

This year’s festival features electronic music icon Laurie Anderson, who has been called “America’s multi-mediatrix” by Wired magazine. Other guest artists will include computer-music pioneer Max Mathews, inventor of the first computer language to generate sounds digitally, and composer-author Jon Appleton, co-inventor of the first performance digital synthesizer. Concerts presented at the festival will include a variety of compositions for laptop orchestras, surround-sound playback, video, acoustic instruments that interact with laptops, robotic cello, iPhones, and iPads.

Guest performers will include the Greater Miami Youth Symphony, cello virtuoso Madeleine Shapiro, internationally renowned clarinetists Esther Lamneck and Arthur Campbell, and many others.

“Music and technology have co-existed for centuries,” says Colby Leider, associate professor at the Frost School of Music. “This event simply presents a snapshot of what creative people around the country are doing in the early part of this century.”

For more information, visit www.seamus2011.org.

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Date: Friday, January 21
Time: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: Miller School of Medicine campus, Dominion Parking Garage Suite 155

For assistance, call the Professional Development and Training Office at 305-243-3090.

Jay P. Mohr, Daniel Sciarra Professor of Neurology and director of the Doris and Stanley Tananbaum Stroke Center at Columbia University, will present “Management of Cardiac Patent Foramen Ovale – The Closure Trial” on Friday, January 21 at 1 p.m. at the Clinical Research Building, first-floor Gordon Center Auditorium. The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. For more information, call Jessica Busquets at 305-243-8785 or e-mail [email protected].

Maria T. Abreu, professor and chief of the Division of Gastroenterology in the Department of Medicine at the Miller School of Medicine, will present “Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in the Intestine in Health and Disease” on Friday, January 21 at 12 p.m. in the Gautier Building, Room 118.

Piali Sengupta, professor of biology at the National Center for Behavioral Genomics at Brandeis University, will present “Pheromone Signaling in C. elegans: Mechanisms and Consequences” on Friday, January 21 from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Lois Pope LIFE Center, seventh-floor auditorium. For more information, call 305-243-7108.