Electronic Music Midwest

23rd Annual Festival

Vox Novus will be live-streaming the 23rd Annual Electronic Music Midwest Festival (EMM) that will be held at Kansas City Kansas Community College April 4-5,2025, with guest performer flutist Lisa Bost-Sandberg.

EMM is about more than just playing new music. The festival strives to create an environment conducive to building community interaction. Most concerts are approximately one hour long, and composers have plenty of time to "talk shop" with each other as well as interact socially with students and audience members.

2025 Guest Performer: Lisa Bost-Sandberg

A distinctive and eloquent voice in the music of today, Lisa Bost-Sandberg is described by renowned musician Robert Dick as "…one of the important composer-performers of her generation…[her] interpretations are infused with deep musicality, questing intelligence and a joyous spirit." Deeply committed to contemporary music as well as its rich roots in the classical repertoire, Bost-Sandberg is known as an engaging flutist/composer/improviser, a dynamic presenter of workshops and lectures, and an impactful teacher.

For more information, visit www.lisabost.com.

EMM FESTIVAL - CONCERT 1

Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/c-lWGDGH7ug

Friday, April 4, 2025 - 1:30pm CDT
KCKCC Fine Arts Building

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Sorrow, Like Pleasure, Creates Its Own Atmosphere by Gene Pritsker
Lisa Bost-Sandberg, flute

Flashes of Lightning, Rumblings and Peals of Thunder by Benjamin Krumwiede
Benjamin Krumwiede, piano

Motion in Flow by Mike McFerron
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Serendipitous II by Kyle Grimm
Krista Kopper, Double Bass

A Detour, Invalid Light by Mistake by Shahrzad Talebi
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couloirs... by Wei Yang
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Old Soul by Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz
Lisa Bost-Sandberg, flute

Birds by Christopher Cook
Mary Hellmann, piano

EMM FESTIVAL - CONCERT 2

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wXQds7phz4

KCKCC Fine Arts Building
Friday April 4th 2025 - 4:30pm CDT

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Whisper by Treya Nash
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F(r)E(e)D(o)M by Michael James Olson and Aaron Humble
Aaron Humble, Voice Jake Sentgeorge, Voice
Michael James Olson, guitar and electronics

In Situ by Elizabeth A. Knox
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Bĕda by Jacob Frost
Alexis Aguilar, saxophone

Become Waves by Tianyi Wang
Tianyi Wang, performer

susurrus by Nolen Liu
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MetaPersona_Archetype-1.2 by Fiona Xue Ju
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EMM FESTIVAL - CONCERT 3

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WOdq1DF0k8

KCKCC Fine Arts Building
Friday April 4th, 2025 8:00 pm CDT

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EMM FESTIVAL - CONCERT 4

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ivOwvubRJg

KCKCC Fine Arts Building
Saturday April 5th, 2025 10:00am CDT

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Digital Rain by Yoonjae Choi
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Azure b Wesley S. Uchiyama-Penix
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Stay by Daroo Lee
Daroo Lee, performer

...Please repeat that. by Dinah Bianchi
Dinah Bianchi, horn

Ring (excerpt from Part 4) by James Romig
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Fish Song by Caroline Flynn
Caroline Flynn, performer

EMM FESTIVAL - CONCERT 5

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE7sNcisbVU

Concert 5 KCKCC Fine Arts Building
April 5th, 2025 - 1:30pm CDT

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Study no. 61 by Ryan Ross Smith
Ryan Ross Smith, conductor

Brompton & Braeswood by Timothy Roy
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"I am the Space..." by Benjamin Shirey
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Thicket (excerpt) by Jason Bolte
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Anamorphism by Hangzhong Lian
Sean Zhou, guitar

Dante & Virgil by Matt A. Mason
Matt Mason, voice & electronics

superego by Maggie Heeren & Carter John Rice
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EMM FESTIVAL - CONCERT 6

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPSdeRu_hiY

KCKCC Fine Arts Building
Saturday April 5th, 2025 4:30pm CDT

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Texture Arc The Points by David Q. Nguyen
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H & H by Hsuan Chang KITANO
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Iridium by Sarah Bassingthwaighte
Lisa Bost-Sandberg & Sarah Bassingthwaighte, flutes

THING_THING for Cajon and Electronics by Patti Cudd and Paul Elwood
Patti Cudd, percussion

First Rain by Brian Post
Garrick Woods, cello

You are the colorful withering in my eyes by Mengmeng Wang
Lisa Bost-Sandberg, flute

Atracones (Binge Eating) by Erik Deerly
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EMM FESTIVAL - CONCERT 7

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVa4TrFtGR4

KCKCC Fine Arts Building
Saturday April 5th,2025 8:00 pm CDT

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Reverie by Leah Reid
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cold blue by Frank Felice
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My Last Tape Piece by Brian Belet
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Rough Gem by Hoàng Phó
Lisa Bost-Sandberg, flute

Until Heard by Kyong Mee Choi
Kari Johnson, piano

Echoes of Ink and Flow by Huan Sun
Huan Sun, performer

Ye-chong by Ye-chong Jeon
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Turning by Michael Wittgraf
Lisa Bost-Sandberg, flute