Renée T. Coulombe

“High-tech/ low-tech: appropriation, re-purposing & creation.” (lecture-performance)

Renée T. Coulombe is a composer, performer, improviser and scholar. She composes works that challenge the borders between composition, improvisation, technology and performance. She is currently Assistant Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of California, Riverside. During spring of 2000, she was a Lecturer in Music in the School of Fine Arts and Sciences at the University of San Diego. From September of 1995 to September of 2000, she was Programmer/Analyst for the Digital Audio Reserves Project at the Music Library at the University of California, San Diego. Her works are available through Nena Dreams Music in both printed and recorded form, and on the Open Space Label (Disc OS 12).

“Powering Up/Powering Down” is sponsored in part by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), and the UC San Diego Department of Music in connection with the departments of Visual Arts, Music, and Literature at UCSD along with the UC Riverside and Los Angeles campuses.