Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!About the DirectorsJohn Gibson composes electronic music, which he often combines with instrumental soloists or ensembles. He also creates fixed-media audio and audiovisual works that focus on environmental soundscape. His portrait CD, Traces, is available on the Innova label, along with other recordings on the Centaur, Everglade, Innova, and SEAMUS labels. Audiences across the world have heard his music in venues including the D-22 punk rock club in Beijing, the Palazzo Pisani in Venice, and the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. Presentations of his electroacoustic music include concerts at the Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the Bourges Synthèse Festival in France, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, the Australasian Computer Music Conference, and many ICMC and SEAMUS conferences. Significant awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Paul Jacobs Memorial Fund Commission from the Tanglewood Music Center, and a residency in the south of France from the Camargo Foundation. He was a Mentoring Artist at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in May 2017. Gibson is associate professor of music (composition: electronic and computer music) and director of the Center for Electronic and Computer Music at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.Chi Wang is a composer and performer of electroacoustic music whose research and creative work focus on sound design, data-driven instrument creation, musical composition, and performance. Her works have been presented internationally at leading venues and conferences, including the International Computer Music Conference, New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Musicacoustica-Beijing, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Kyma International Sound Symposium, Electronic Music Midwest, and the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music, among others. Her compositions have received wide recognition, including selection for SEAMUS CDs, the Best Composition from the Americas at the International Computer Music Conference, the Pauline Oliveros New Genre Prize from the International Alliance for Women in Music, the Award of Distinction at the MA/IN International Festival of Digital and Creative Culture, honors at the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music Competition Prix CIME, and finalist distinction at the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition. Wang earned a D.M.A. in the Performance of Data-Driven Instruments from the University of Oregon. She is currently associate professor of music (composition: electronic and computer music) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.