Happy New Year!

We hope you have enjoyed relaxing and rejuvenating times with family and friends this holiday season. We have an exciting year ahead at Ncounters. Stayed tuned for details!

For now, please visit our CFS Here! page to find out all of the details to become involved in our year-ending conference. We invite submissions from anyone interested.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Welcome back!

We are thrilled to be kicking off the 2011-2012 season of Ncounters this Friday, October 21 in Riel House at 9:00pm. To start off our season of “Deconstructing Collaboration in Music,” we are happy to present you our first monthly instalment: “Collaboration the First: Sound.” Join us as four graduate students from the University of Alberta present topics that explore the infinite palate of sounds we make as musicians.

You will the event poster here:
Ncounters October poster

Here is a link to our Facebook event:
Ncounters, Collaboration the First: Sound

We hope to see you there!

See you in the fall!

Here we are at the end of another year. Many thanks to all who helped make it so successful. See you in the fall!

New Executive

GMSA elections happened this past week at our annual AGM. We’re happy to announce that 3 new executives were elected to the following positions:

Executive Administrator: Caitlyn Triebel

Coordinator, Performance: Mark Wilkinson

Coordinator, Academic: Ozgecan Karadagli

Video from Ncounters: The Audible Past, The Mutable Future

Here are some videos from our recent conference, held on March 4 and 5, 2011 at the University of Alberta. Special thanks to all those involved!

Thank you!

The GMSA would like to thank everyone who made Ncounters: The Audible Past, the Mutable Future such a success! We saw many fascinating presentations and performances from a variety of perspectives and disciplines, and were thrilled by the engaging conversations that they sparked. We couldn’t have done it without everyone involved, so thank you!

We’ll be posting video in the coming weeks, so check back often.

Cheers,
the GMSA

Watch Ncounters Live!

We’re happy to announce that Ncounters: The Audible Past, The Mutable Future will be streamed live on Saturday, March 5, from 9:00am – 5:00pm. Click either of the links below to watch.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ncounters-room-2-20 (room 2-20, 9:00am – 5:00pm)

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ncounters-room-2-7 (room 2-7, 1:00pm – 5:00pm)

GMSA on CJSR

Tune in to CJSR this Wednesday, March 2nd from 1:00-2:00pm! Daniel Brophy and Colin Labadie from the GMSA will be appearing on “Mind Compression,” hosted by Gabby Riches, to promote this week’s Ncounters, and to talk about music in general.

CJSR is on 88.5 FM. You can also tune in online at http://www.cjsr.ualberta.ca/listenlive.htm

Ncounters: The Audible Past, The Mutable Future

Our annual conference is fast approaching! We have over 15 confirmed presenters from 9 different Universities across North America, and a variety of topics from Schenker to Prairie Rap.

We’re kicking off the conference on Friday, March 4, 8:00pm with a welcome and social at cafe leva (11053 86). This is a joint event between the GMSA and the History and Classics Student Association, and will feature a guest presentation by Michael MacDonald and Rylan Kafara.

Saturday, March 5, will be a full day of paper sessions and performances. Starting at 9:00am, we will run back-to-back paper sessions in FAB 2-20. After lunch, we will run parallel sessions between Studio 27 and FAB 2-20. Inthe evening, we will have a small banquet with light refreshments in the Arts lounge (old arts building), followed by an interactive, multi-leveled performance throughout FAB.

Also, we are currently exploring the possibility of streaming the conference live so that those who cannot attend can still be part of the conference. A link will be available shortly.

Stay tuned for more details!

UPDATE: The conference schedule and abstracts are now posted!

Ncounters: Text as Music

Here’s some video from the most recent Ncounters