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SYCOM CONCERTS:

U S F   S Y C O M   i n   C o n c e r t ,   D e c   5
Plase join us on Wednesday, December 5 at 8PM in the USF Theater II (THR) for an evening of cutting-edge electronic music from the students of Prof. Paul Reller's SYCOM Studio. Adult $12, Student/Seniors $6

Electronic Playground, Henry Hsiao of the group Trace Elements

"But the strongest influence on the local electronic scene is the University of South Florida's Systems Complex for the Recording and Performing Arts. Hsiao went from assisting SYCOM director Paul Reller to running his own Tampa studio, Puretone Productions, recently featured in Keyboard magazine. Ray Villadonga, another SYCOM alum, and Dali Museum education director Peter Tush created Step Outside, formerly called Sonic Irritations.

If SYCOM hadn't existed, the music scene here in Tampa would be very, very different right now," said SYCOM alum Rob Constable, leader of experimental combo Handshake Squad. "There are a lot of people walking around and producing music that we hear in Tampa Bay right now, with knowledge of acoustics and analog and digital sound because of time spent there."

Past News Articles
Bonk Festival Opens with Mild-mannered Note, St Pete Times 4/2/2005

Jacko Remixed, The Oracle 10/20/2003

Electronic Playground, St Pete Times 3/3/2002

Past Posters
Dance of the Electrons, semi-annual Sycom Concert

Past Concerts
2005 Bonk Festival of New Music, annual music festival


Hsiao, left, works on the electronics and Jim Beckwith plays percussion during the Avant-a-Thon.

Paul Reller, Associate Professor, has been part of the USF composition faculty since 1990. He is the coordinator of the composition department and director of SYCOM, USF’s suite of electronic music studios.
Michael Timpson, Michael Sidney Timpson, , Assistant Professor at USF, teaches composition and electronic music. Previously, he taught at the University of Michigan, the University of Kansas, and at Rhodes College in Memphis.

 

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