Streaming Audio Project

USC student composers Matthew Whitehouse & Adam Booth (Top) Logan Young and James York (Bottom)

Project Description

A collaboration between the Composition Program and Recording Area, this project was the School of Music's first foray into the arena of live audio streaming technology. The primary goal of this project was to equip the School of MusicÕs recording control center Studio C with the hardware and software required to produce live CD-quality Webcasts (audio-only) of our USC Student Composers Concerts. These QuickTime-based Webcasts were designed to help our student composers gain a wider audience for their music, and to provide our composition faculty, student composers and student performers with continued access to these important instructional resources. Two concerts were broadcast live over the Internet during the course of this pilot study: one on November 23, 2002, and the other on April 12, 2003. The project Web site (webcast.music.sc.edu) provides access to technical information about the project, a streaming media archive with complete program information for both concerts, and special features such as audio interviews with selected student composers and resources for student composition portfolio development.

Co-Principle Investigators/Project Team

Reginald Bain, Composition and Theory
Jeff Francis, Recording
John Fitz Rogers, Composition

Technical Specialists

Nancy Hart, Distance Education and Instructional Support (DEIS)
Jason Trenary, School of Music, Information Systems Manager
James York, Graduate Assistant

Broadcast Archive

November 24, 2002 USC Student Composers Concert:

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1. Program
2. Notes
3. Composer Interviews
April 12, 2003 USC Student Composers Concert:

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1. Program
2. Notes
November 23, 2003 USC Student Composers Concert:

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1. Program