{"id":19709,"date":"2014-12-17T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=19709"},"modified":"2014-12-17T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T17:17:00","slug":"bsu-electronic-ensemble-voltage-holds-annual-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/17\/bsu-electronic-ensemble-voltage-holds-annual-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"BSU Electronic Ensemble &#8216;Voltage&#8217; Holds Annual Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voltage, a student electronic music ensemble at Bemidji State University, performed on campus Dec. 10.<\/p>\n<p>The concert was held in the Thompson Recital Hall of BSU&rsquo;s Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex and featured a special guest appearance by Dr. Del Lyren, BSU professor of music, on the Electronic Wind Instrument. The music featured in the concert was exclusively student-composed and arranged specifically for Voltage.<\/p>\n<p>Voltage&rsquo;s unique music is realized by utilizing totally electric instruments including Electronic Wind Instrument (EWI), MalletKat, synthesizers, guitars, basses, sequences, samples, loops, Wavedrum, Octapad and sampled MIDI percussion.<\/p>\n<p>Voltage is under the direction of the music department&rsquo;s adjunct music technology instructor, Greg Gaston. Participation is open to all students through an audition at the start of each semester. Voltage has performed internationally in Weifang, China, and is in demand for various performances throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<br>\n<\/strong>Greg Gaston, adjunct instructor, BSU Department of Music; (218) 755-2398, ggaston@bemidjistate.edu<\/p>\n<p><strong> Voltage members, by hometown<\/strong><br>\nBemidji |56601| Elias Connell, freshman, business administration; MIDI sequences, MIDI percussion, engineer<br>\nBemidji |56601| Ben Schreiber, junior, mathematics education; electric &amp; MIDI bass guitar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minnesota<\/strong><br>\nBagley |56621| Andrew White, junior, music; electric &amp; MIDI guitar<br>\nMaple Grove |55311| Josh May, junior, music; Electronic Wind Instrument<br>\nNevis |56467| Brian Bass, junior, music; MIDI drums, malletkat, electric &amp; MIDI guitar<br>\nNevis |56467| Gabriela Karam, senior, music; Electronic Wind Instrument<br>\nPequot Lakes |56472| Christian Kurilla, freshman, music education; Electronic Wind Instrument<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voltage, a student electronic music ensemble at Bemidji State University, performed on campus Dec. 10. The concert was held in the Thompson Recital Hall of BSU&rsquo;s Bangsberg Fine Arts Complex and featured a special guest appearance by Dr. Del Lyren, BSU professor of music, on the Electronic Wind Instrument. The music featured in the concert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19710,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709\/revisions\/19710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}