Greg Surges is a composer of electronic and acoustic music.
Greg is currently pursuing a BFA in Composition/Music
Technology at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. His work has
been released on the wandering ear label. His current work
explores improvisation by computer automata, as well as computer-assisted
algorithmic composition.

Greg's extra-musical interests include vegan cooking and conspiracy theories.

email: surgesg at gmail dot com

music:

cytoarchitecture
    2/8 Channel Software Instrument, April 2008
    Realized in PD
   

Closed(Circles)Broken
    Solo Piano, November 2007
    Michael Bootzin, Performer (Recording - Music From Almost Yesterday Fall 2007 Concert)

Gates (No. 2)
    8 Channel Software Instrument, May 2007
    Realized in PD
      

Waveformations
    2 Channel Fixed Playback, January 2007
    Released on wandering ear we005

Gates (No. 1)
    Software Instrument, December 2006
    Realized in PD
   


projects:
As a member of MiLO - the Milwaukee Laptop Orchestra, Greg
is a co-developer of Networked Resources for Collaborative
Improvisation (NRCI).

Click here and here to read papers about NRCI.

code:
Greg is also developing Pd externals:
    randomwalk.c - generates a bounded random-walk
    histogram.c  - report the most frequent values in an input stream 
    nrciOut.c    - format PD symbols to OSC-compliant strings
    nrciChat.c   - convert PD keyname object output to strings

performances:
    05.13.2008 Free improvisations,
               Variations II John Cage
               For 1, 2, or 3 People Christian Wolff
               Comb Music George Brecht
               w/ Patricio Amarena (guitar), Rachel Icenogle (cello), w/ guest Steve Nelson-Raney (saxophone)
    04.10.2008 cytoarchitecture MFAY Spring 2008 Concert
    03.08.2008 MiLO at UWM Grand Viennese Ball
    02.07.2008 Vague Notions of Lost Textures Scott Gresham-Lancaster
    12.06.2007 Stuck Note Scott Gresham-Lancaster
    05.17.2007 Gates No.2 Greg Surges
    12.14.2006 Gates No.1 Greg Surges
    04.20.2006 Imaginary Landscape No.4 John Cage

egoizing:
    2009 Graduate (Honors) of UW-Milwaukee, BFA Music Composition/Technology
    02.27.2008 Presenter at SPARK Festival of Electronic Music and Arts
    2007 Fall Outstanding Tutor award (UW-M Tutoring and Academic Resource Center)
    04.20.2007 Presenter at UW-System Symposium on Undergraduate Research
    2006 - 2008 UWM Music Department Talent Scholarship

links:
pure data
vegan action
earthlings film:
    part one
    part two
    part three
free software foundation


Greg Surges
Updated: 6.22.2008