{"id":9303,"date":"2012-02-17T11:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T17:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2012-02-17T18:11:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T00:11:45","slug":"ku-music-student-wins-national-acclaim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2012\/02\/17\/ku-music-student-wins-national-acclaim\/","title":{"rendered":"KU music student wins national acclaim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jason Charney, a music composition student at the University of Kansas, recently won the\u00a0Allen Strange Award from the Society of Electro-acoustic Music in the United States \u00a0for his avant-garde work, &#8220;Compass.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>from nick curry<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>originally aired on ad astra radio thursday february 16, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Jason Charney speaks with Nick Curry about &#8220;Compass&#8221;:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;9306&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Charney performs &#8220;Compass&#8221; live at KJHK:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[jwplayer mediaid=&#8221;9310&#8243;]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9320\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Compass-at-Apple-Store.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9320\" title=\"Compass at Apple Store\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Compass-at-Apple-Store-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Compass-at-Apple-Store-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Compass-at-Apple-Store.jpg 922w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jason Charney performs &quot;Compass&quot; at an Apple Store in Chicago, Illinois.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When you think of classical music, you probably think of bombastic pianists, elegant string quartets, or dramatic symphonies. But Jason Charney&#8217;s award-winning composition, &#8220;Compass,&#8221; isn&#8217;t for any of those ensembles. In fact, the performer isn&#8217;t playing a familiar musical instrument at all &#8212; the electronic work is controlled entirely by the gyroscopes, sensors, and touch screen of Charney&#8217;s iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Charney won the Allen Strange Award from the Society of Electro-acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) for &#8220;Compass,&#8221; and dropped by KJHK to talk about his work and perform the piece in the KJHK studios.<\/p>\n<p>Listen above for the interview, as well as a recording of the work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Charney, a music composition student at the University of Kansas, recently won the\u00a0Allen Strange Award from the Society of Electro-acoustic Music in the United States \u00a0for his avant-garde work, &#8220;Compass.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":9320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-on-kjhk","category-live-performances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Compass-at-Apple-Store.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}