Texas State University Presents: Shiau-uen Ding & Miller Puckette

• Shiau-uen Ding, piano
• Miller Puckette, computer

Miller Puckette and Shiau-uen Ding computer/piano duo, presents Philippe Manoury's Das Wohlpräparierte Klavier (... troisième sonate ...) in concert. This major work uses live electronics to transform the piano's sound and makes references to styles and forms by Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, and John Cage. This piece was finished in 2020 and was written for and premiered by Daniel Barenboim. Puckette and Ding will invite faculty and students to join them for structured improvisation in the second part of the program.

About Texas State University School of Music

https://www.music.txst.edu/

About Shiau-uen Ding, piano

A native of Taiwan, pianist Shiau-uen Ding is a rising presence on the new and electro-acoustic music scenes, and an original and energetic performer of traditional solo and chamber repertoire. She studied piano with Eugene Pridonoff, Elizabeth Pridonoff, and Lina Yeh, computer music with Mara Helmuth and Christopher Bailey, and contemporary improvisation with Alan Bern at National Taiwan Normal University and University of Cincinnati, where she received her doctoral degree. She lives in New York City.

About Miller Puckette, computer

Miller Smith Puckette (born 1959) is the associate director of the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts as well as a professor of music at the University of California, San Diego, where he has been since 1994. Puckette is known for authoring Max, a graphical development environment for music and multimedia synthesis, which he developed while working at IRCAM in the late 1980s. He is also the author of Pure Data (Pd), a real-time performing platform for audio, video and graphical programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works, written in the 1990s with input from many others in the computer music and free software communities.