Streaming and in-person:
Click for stream Julie Zhu and Douglas McCausland present their DMA Final Projects as part of this year's CCRMA in Bing residency.
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FREE and Open to the Public
Livestream: ccrma.stanford.edu/live
Face coverings are strongly recommended. We encourage you to continue wearing masks for the comfort of our audience members, artists, and staff.
Directions, parking, accessibility: https://live.stanford.edu/plan-your-visit/directions-parking
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J.Zhu is a composer, artist, and carillonneur. Her work is visual and aural, operating on an expansive definition of score, striving for the unexpected obvious and expressive absurd.
She entangles various media, from mural painting and sculpture to performance and video, and collaborates with artists from different fields to create experimental chamber experiences. She has activated living rooms, concert halls, art galleries, bell towers, caves, copses, and once made a tiny house for just one harpsichordist’s body and the keyboard.
Her scores range from hair cast in clear resin to temporary tattoos to traditional orchestration, and have been performed by Quasar, Line Upon Line, The Living Earth Show, Marco Fusi, Longleash, PROMPTUS, TAK ensemble, among others. She is the recipient of the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans and first prize in the Zwolle carillon composition competition.
As a professional carillonneur, Zhu has presented concerts and lectures throughout Europe and North America, including a TEDx talk titled The Anonymous Carillonneurs. She was appointed carillonneur at Saint Thomas Fifth Avenue in New York City in 2015.
Zhu studied at Yale University (BA mathematics, BA art), the Royal Carillon School (Diploma carillon performance), Hunter College (MFA art), and at present, Stanford University (DMA composition).
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Douglas McCausland is a composer / performer, sound designer, and digital artist whose visceral and often chaotic works explore the extremes of sound, technology, and the digital medium.
Described as “Tremendously powerful, dark, and sometimes terrifying...” (SEAMUS), his works have been performed internationally at numerous festivals, including: Sonorities, SEAMUS, the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, MISE-EN Music Festival, Klingt Gut!, Sounds Like THIS!, NYCEMF, Sonicscape, and Ars Electronica. Recent collaborations include artists such as bassist Aleksander Gabryś, cellist Seth Parker Woods, the Quasar Saxophone Quartet, the TAK Ensemble, and vocal ensemble Variant 6. His work is available through various online platforms, and on SEAMUS, Plyta Z Audiomatu, and Jikken Records.
Recent honors include an award of distinction in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica for his piece “Convergence”, winning 1st-Prize in the 2021 ASCAP/SEAMUS commission competition, the gold- prize award for “contemporary computer music” in the Verband Deutscher Tonmeister Student 3D Audio Production Competition, and being awarded the runner-up nomination for the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music's 2019 CIME Prix.
As an artist, he researches and leverages the intersections of numerous technologies and creative practices, such as real-time electronic music performance with handmade interfaces, spatial audio, dynamic and interactive systems, intermedia art, the musical applications of machine- learning, experimental sound design, and hardware-hacking.
Douglas is currently a DMA candidate at Stanford University, working towards his doctorate in Composition while studying with Chris Chafe, Patricia Alessandrini, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, and Mark Applebaum. He is also the Technology and Applied Composition (TAC) Studio Manager at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Cost: FREE