The Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) is a not-for-profit promoter of
electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instrumen ...
,
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
and
electronic art
Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media. More broadly, it refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electr ...
in the
Kansas City
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more ...
metro area.
Mission
The Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA) was founded in 2007 to encourage and develop understanding and appreciation of electronic music and to create an expansive sense of community for electronic musicians and other artists in the Kansas City Area. KcEMA organizes concerts of electronic music and collaborative projects with generative and performing artists. KcEMA provides a forum for electronic musicians and artists in other media to collaborate, exchange ideas, and grow as an interactive, supportive community.
Articles & Reviews
sensorially immersive, emotionally evocative, and thoroughly satisfying..."''-
Chamber Music Todaymind bending program of audio/visual imagination."''-
Megan Browne Helm,
KCMetropolis.orgTen of KC's 2009–10 season"''-
KCMetropolis.orgwhole performance was accomplished artistry undiminished by the unusual dimensions of sound and sight."''-
Paul Elias Taylor, El Dormidocould say it was a healing of the wound between ‘fixed media’ and ‘live’ electroacoustic performance. The unity of the aesthetic effect of the musicians who performed live and the composers who engineered their fixed-media playback was among the best I’ve ever heard."''-
Chamber Music Todayis a vital organization in the already rich artistic landscape of Kansas City. You owe it to yourself to seek out one of their shows"''-
Lee Hartman
Leland "Lee" Hartman (February 27, 1930 – December 24, 2012) was an American animator and writer.
Hartman graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
Hartman was employed as an animator for the Walt Disney Company from 1955 to 1960. His cr ...
,
KCMetropolis.orgarresting and spoke to the soul and human condition."''-
Lee Hartman
Leland "Lee" Hartman (February 27, 1930 – December 24, 2012) was an American animator and writer.
Hartman graduated from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.
Hartman was employed as an animator for the Walt Disney Company from 1955 to 1960. His cr ...
,
KCMetropolis.orgmight be surprised by the music’s emotionality, its sonic richness, its absolute abstract nature.."''-
Sarah Benson,
ink Magazine
Board of directors
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John Chittum, President
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Christina Butera, Vice President
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Cody Kauhl, Treasurer
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Eli Hougland, Secretary
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Stacy Busch, Public Relations
References
External links
Official website
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Music organizations based in the United States