Frank X. Mauceri
Music Department
9200 College Station
Bowdoin College (207)-729-4281
Brunswick, ME 04011 U.S.A. fmauceri@bowodin.edu
Faculty Appointments:
Lecturer, Department of Music, Bowdoin College 2008-present.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Music, Bowdoin College, 1996,1999.
Director of Jazz Ensembles, Bowdoin College,
Co-director 1995-97; Director 1998- present.
Lecturer, Department of Music University of Maine at Augusta, 1998-present.
Education:
B.A. Contemporary Art Theory.
Oberlin College, May 1987
B.M. Music Composition
Oberlin College, May 1987
Composition studies with Randolph Coleman and Edward Miller
Jazz Saxophone studies with Nathan Davis
M.M. Composition
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, May 1989.
University of Illinios graduate fellow.
D.M.A. Composition, minor in Philosophy,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 1996.
Composition studies with Herbert Brün and William Brooks
Teaching Experience:
Bowdoin College
Sept. 1995-present:
Director of Jazz Ensembles, Director of the Polar Big Band
Music 315 – Computer Music Composition and Sound Synthesis
Music 211 — Improvisation
Music 218 – Introduction to Electronic Music
Music 215 – Jazz Theory and Practice
Music 020 – Music and Technology (first year seminar)
Aural Skills lab instructor
Independent studies: Song Writing; Jazz Theory; and Jazz Improvisation
Private Lessons: Saxophone, Composition
University of Maine at Augusta
Sept. 1998- Present:
Music 101-102 – Music Theory
Music 271 – Intro to Computer Music
Music 300 – Digital Synthesis
Music 425 – Senior Seminar: Jazz Scholarship and Criticism
Music 315 – Jazz Transcription
Music 471 – Music Business
Independent studies: Counterpoint; Advanced Computer Music.
Private lessons: Composition; Theory; Saxophone; and Thoroughbass
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Jan. 1988 – May 1991:
Music 102 – Intermediate Music Theory
Music 104 – Twentieth Century Music Theory
Music 107 – Intermediate Aural Skills
Music 200 – Music Theory for non-majors
Cited on the incomplete list of teachers ranked as excellent by their students
Publications:
“From Experimental Music to Musical Experiment”
Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 35 no. 1. Summer 1997.
Listening to Technology: Musical Response in the Age of Digital Technique
Doctoral Thesis, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL. 1996.
Presentations:
Ceteris Paribus: Improvisation in a Composed Environment
American Society of Cybernetics Conference
Olympia, Washington, March 2009
His Master’s Voice: Music, Digital Audio, and Male Hegemony.
(En)Gendering Technology – 14th Maine Women’s Studies Conference.
University of Maine at Augusta, November, 1999.
Using Cellular Automata for Algorithmic Composition.
Funny Music 1997.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 1997.
Experimental Music in the Age of Digital Technology.
27th Conference of the Society of Composers.
Cleveland, Ohio, April 1993.
Workshops:
STEIM Instrument Lab
Amsterdam. August 2011
Performing Digital Media II. Mellon Foundation’s CBB Collaborative Faculty Enhancement Grant, Workshop with Troika Ranch on Multimedia for performance,
Bowdoin College. Maine. September-April 2010/2011.
2nd International Realtime Music Symposium, 2009, The Norwegian State Academy of Music and School for Improvisational Music. Oslo, Norway. August 2009
Performing Digital Media. Mellon Foundation’s CBB Collaborative Faculty Enhancement Grant, Workshop with Troika Ranch on Multimedia application Isadora,
Bates College, Lewiston. Maine. January/February 2009.