Author Archives: Austin Franklin

I’m excited to have completed my latest piece, In the Space Between, which will be premiered in May 2025 by New Music Mosaic. This is quite a different piece for me, and also the first piece I’ve engraved in Dorico, which I now am officially more satisfied with than Sibelius. The piece is about theContinue reading “New Double Bar”

This month I had a world premiere of my piece Murk with the Västerås Sinfonietta. The ensemble was fantastic, and I even got to play one of the percussion parts for the work. More media and a recording will be coming soon, along with more music. Stay tuned!

I have been chosen as the winner for “Best Innovation” in Mälardalen University’s Idélab competition. Along with this announcement comes prize money and verification funds for help starting a business. There aren’t too many details (at least publicly available details) at the moment about the innovation and future directions . There will be more updatesContinue reading “IdéLab Competition”

I am excited to share that the Percussion Ensemble at Stephen F. Austin University will give a performance of The Theory of Motion today at 7:30 PM. The ensemble is under the direction of Brad Meyer and will include music by Paul Lansky, Aaron Graham, and others.

Excited to share my recent paper “Building Musical Systems: An Approach Using Real-Time Music Information Retrieval Tools” through the Chroma Journal, Volume 39 – ElectroMUSE.” The theme, ElectroMUSE, relates to the Muse of Ancient Greek mythology. These are nine goddesses who preside over the arts and science and were the source of inspirational fire forContinue reading “Chroma Journal Acceptance”

Just found out that my saxophone quartet Flower of the Sun was the winner of the Nuovo Antropocene Call for Scores. The piece will be performed in a dedicated concert before the end of the year in Italy, where the piece had its premiere. Excited to take this piece back to where it started!

From the International Game Developers Association, Baton Rouge Chapter: “Meetup is next week!This month, our speaker is Austin Franklin, creator of the game Horde. Horde is a unique game, controlled with sound by any number of improvising musicians simultaneously with the goal of earning as many points as possible within the time limit. *We wouldContinue reading “Horde Presentation”

Excited to share The Theory of Motion at MOSAICfest 2023! The live video performances of the work will occur on https://www.youtube.com/@newmusicmosaic today at 6:00 EDT and 8:00 EDT. Tune in if you’re interested in checking out this work. This was a recent commission as part of a consortium for a work for percussion quartet andContinue reading “Upcoming Performance”

My recent research titled Building Musical Systems: An Approach Using Real-TimeMusic Information Retrieval Tools has been accepted to the Australasian Computer Music Conference 2023. I’m excited to give a talk over this work at UNE Sydney in October and share it with others. If you’re interested in reading the paper click the link above.

Excited to share The Advocate documentation of the event this past Sunday. Check it out for photos and a longer description of the event: https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/photos-gaming-through-music/collection_ce0dcfc0-29b6-11ee-a500-073237886fac.html#5