TURN UP Multimedia Festival 2025 features composer and data instrument designer Chi Wang, guest performer saxophonist Edward Goodman, his students in the U of A Saxophone Ensemble, and 26 selected artists around the globe, March 20-22.
All events will be held at Crowder Hall and are free to the public.
Chi Wang is an assistant professor of music in composition: electronic and computer music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She specializes in data-driven instruments, combining composition, sound design, and performance with repurposed game controllers and custom-built instruments. Wang has presented her work at leading electronic music conferences, including the International Computer Music Conference, where she won the Best Piece (Americas) award in 2018, and the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the U.S., where her composition Peony Garden was featured on the 2018 conference CD.
Saxophonist Edward Goodman, associate professor at the School of Music, is a versatile performer, improviser, and educator known for his expressive and dynamic playing. Winner of the North American Saxophone Alliance Solo Competition, he has performed with the PRISM and Donald Sinta quartets, the Detroit and Tucson Symphony Orchestras, and co-founded the M-Prize-winning saxophone sextet, The Moanin’ Frogs. His debut album, Liminal (2020), was praised as “diabolically brilliant” (Fanfare Magazine).
Thursday, March 20
Concert I | U of A Saxophone Studio, 7:30p
Four Pictures from New York … Roberto Molinelli
- Edward Goodman, saxophone
- Fanya Lin, piano
Odessa … Arthur Blythe, arr. Caleb Curtis
- Edward Goodman, saxophone
Thrust … Hoàng Phó
- Zarya Saxophone Quartet
- Jaxson Archer, soprano saxophone
- Ricky Li, alto saxophone
- Ivanna Zuniga, tenor saxophone
- Ethan Luker, baritone saxophone
Dracones Nursery … Nick Hwang
- George Rosas, alto saxophone
River of Glass … Sam Parnin
- Zarya Saxophone Quartet
Shan Shui … Yuanyuan (Kay) He
- U of A Saxophone Ensemble
- George Rosas, soprano saxophone
- Jaxson Archer, soprano saxophone
- Ricky Li, alto saxophone
- Sam Egan, alto saxophone
- Ivanna Zuniga, tenor saxophone
- Daniel Reyes, tenor saxophone
- Kevin Ravellette, tenor saxophone
- Joseph Rader, baritone saxophone
Upper West Stomp … Will Healy
- U of A Saxophone Ensemble
Portrait of Wayne Shorter … Kevin Ravellette
- U of A Saxophone Ensemble
Friday, March 21
Concert II | Guest Artist Chi Wang, 1p
- Transparent Affordance
- Fusion of Horizons
- Public Presentation
Concert III | 7:30p
Onto the Silent Peaks … Chen-Hui Jen, piano
Birds of America … Sarah Horick, mezzo-soprano
Futurisms … Jackson Crook, trumpet/soprano trombone
Till the End of Time … Yuyao Shangguan (fixed media)
L’Astronome … Vin Calianno (audiovisual)
r u ok … Seth Shafer
- Shelby VanNordstrand, soprano
Saturday, March 22
Concert IV | 1p
unraveling… … Jacob David Sudol
- Chen-Hui Jen, piano
H & H … Hsuan Chang Kitano (fixed media)
Song of Lenses II … Cole Nagoda
- Cole Nagoda, flute
- Katherine Dilley, piano
- Giselle Vasquez, flute
- Candice Liu, flute
Migration Script … Anthony T. Marasco
- Anthony T. Marasco, electronics
Gutai … Austin Engelhardt & Hidemi Akaiwa
- Hidemi Akaiwa, piano
Opus 4 no 1 … Michael Dolese
- George Rosas, saxophone
- Michael Dolese, piano
Concert V | 7:30p
Air Traffic … John Gibson
- Eddie Ludema, trumpet
Plasticking … Younje Cho (fixed media)
Three Noble Children (三貴子) … Diego Leyva
- Sarah Medwick, clarinet
- CJ Chen, piano
The Mist … Minho Kang (fixed media)
Children of the Stars … Yuanyuan (Kay) He (audiovisual)
Awakening … Nicholas Hubbell
- Brian Luce, flute
- Michael Dolese, percussion
