Kari Besharse is a composer working in both electroacoustic and acoustic mediums. She is interested in finding new ways to combine the two mediums through the use of electronic processing of live acoustic instruments and the processing of sound events from everyday life. Outside of sound, Ms. Besharse also works to collaborate with the other arts such as dance, theater, and video, and bring them together with technology. She believes in using the tools given to us by technology in a meaningful way which expands the expressive power of art.
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Kari Besharse is currently a doctoral student at the University of Illinois working in both electroacoustic and acoustic mediums. She completed her undergraduate studies in composition at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and her Masters degree at the University of Texas at Austin. Primary composition teachers have been Stephen Andrew Taylor, Guy Garnett, Russell Pinkston, Donald Grantham, Robert Cooper, and James Mobberly. Four Songs on texts by Donald Justice was performed at the 2001 June in Buffalo Festival. Her flute solo, Rings, was chosen as a finalist in the 2000 INMC competition. Her music has also been presented around the country by venues and organizations such as Society of Composers, Inc., Texas Computer Musicians Network, The LaTex Festival, The Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Electronic Music Midwest, ICMC, and Pulse Field. Recently, Kari was awarded a Bourges Residence Prize for Small Things. The residency was completed at the University of Birmingham Electroacoustic Music Studios in England where she created a new eight channel tape piece, Firmament.
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for more information contact karibesharse@hotmail.com
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