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Audio/Video Recordings
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This recording was made in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, NC. Using a spaced pair of Earthworks QTC-30s, a closely placed ORTF pair of AKG 414-XLII and a Rhode NT1a quartet spot mic.
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New Voices from Shropshire is a commissioning, recording, and publishing project originated by ECU Professor of Vocal Studies Dr. Daniel Shirley seeking to reengage the poetry of A.E. Housman (1859-1936) for the modern art song recital. Fifteen new Housman settings for tenor & piano have been composed by an aesthetically and culturally diverse range of American composers.
The 15 composers contributing new art songs to the project are Matt Boehler, Juliana Hall, Kamala Sankaram, Tom Cipullo, Melinda Wagner, Travis Alford, Mark Taggart, Andre Myers, Mark Richardson, Scott Gendel, Edward Jacobs, Michael Slayton, Melissa Shiflett, Fahad Siadat, and Daniel Bernard Roumain.
The new art songs were debuted in a live-streamed recital by Daniel Shirley, tenor, and Eric Stellrecht, pianist, in the fall of 2021 with initial recording sessions beginning the following summer. As of January 2026, one piece remains to be recorded before the album is mastered and released.
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This project is set to be released by the ECU School of Music in January 2026. The ECU News Services article and press release link will be inserted here upon it’s publication.
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Read the article, Students pair music therapy, yoga in family caregiver research study by Jessica VanderKolk and Ronnie Woodward for more details on the project Listen, Breathe, Move Project.
This video, and three others, were created as a joint project between ECU’s School of Music’s Dr. Adrienne Steiner-Brett in the College of Fine Arts and Communication and Department of Kinesiology’s Dr. Bhibha Das in the College of Health and Human Performance. They accompany an in-person program given in Fall 2025 as part of the 2024-2025 Research and Creative Activity Award.
Notable Releases Before 2023
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The ECU School of Music presents the NC New Music Initiative's commissioned work by Lei Liang published by Schott Music. Recorded at the A.J. Fletcher Recital Hall on October 24, 2021.
Presentations
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Alex Davis reflects on the technology used at East Carolina University School of Music to help provide ensemble and individual performance opportunities during COVID-19 pandemic. The video was presented in Minneapolis during the joint annual meeting for the American Musicological Society (AMS) and the Society for Music Theory (SMT) November 6-9, 2025 in Amy Carr-Richardson's, Musical Ensembles and Disaster Pedagogy as part of the joint presentation, Teaching Music Theory Through Times of Disaster and Trauma. Find the abstracts for the joint presentation at the AMS-SMT Conference Website.
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I created this video evaluating my work in progress on composing video game music as a sample final exam presentation for the students in MUSC 3366: Electronic Music Composition I.
The Final Exam presentation is the culminating evaluation of how well the tools and techniques students discovered during the class met the goals they set out for their independent projects.
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As a sample final exam presentation for ECU School of Music's Applied Music Technology course, Alex Davis presents the sound design and music that he is creating to align with independent game in progress, Heap by John Hodgson. He gives a cursory overview of key aspects of the game, "Corrupt Memory" and pausing and playing time, and how he used the tools within FMOD studio to creative interactive elements for audio developed in Albeton, Pro Tools, and even within FMOD studio. John Hodgson then gives a brief overview of how the audio integrates into the game development software, Unity. Lastly, we get to enjoy a demo of the game at its current build state within closed Alpha.
Students’ Projects & Instructional Walkthroughs
Compositions & Performances
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In 2022 I started a passion project in my home studio called Studio Play. This unscheduled YouTube live stream has served as an open creative space to freely explore music technology and techniques while continuing to write and process my own personal journey. Being able to wield all the production tools to execute this deeply cathartic practice, and now with my 4-year old son, reflects back to me how valuable a tacit understanding of music and technology is for sustaining my own wellbeing.