Laptop Ensemble

My role as assistant director of Laptop Ensemble started in the Spring of 2019. I had been a member of the ensemble for a few years at that point. The director, Martin Herman, was going to be in the UK serving as the music director for a musical. In the month he was away, he asked me to step in as director. The concert that semester was under my direction, where I rehearsed the ensemble and built the majority of patches used for it. The following semester I was asked to take the role of assistant director, where I was put in charge of teaching Max and keeping track of the ensemble's equipment.

Under my tenure, I revamped our curriculum and redesigned our inventory system. I concentrated on practicality in Max — instead of teaching the basics of the program from the ground up, I decided to teach what was relevant to writing music for the ensemble. My curriculum was very successful in getting new members up to speed with the software.

In more recent semesters I played a bigger role in running rehearsals as well as teaching the software. I was in the process of taking over the role of director as Dr. Herman was on the retirement track. My future goals for the ensemble involve expanding our performance opportunities and collaborations with other musicians and artists as well as expanding our use of technology.

We champion collaboration and having a member-led ensemble. Most of our repertoire is composed and workshopped by the members of the ensemble. Check out a collection of our most recent concerts below.

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