Author Archives: Austin Franklin

Reminder: Today is the Horde game tournament at 5pm at Main Library on Goodwood Boulevard. We will have an acoustic guitar and full-sized keyboard for those playing those instruments, otherwise you will need to bring your own. We will also be providing extension cables and power strips for those needing amplification.You will be paired intoContinue reading “Horde: The Tournament”

Horde: The Game had its soft premiere tonight and the Hopkins Black Box Theater in Baton Rouge, LA. It turned out really well thanks to the improvising musicians Treya Nash and Drew Farrar, along with the incredible graphic design work of Wood Elf Nick. Check out the soft premiere video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rV25ThYMmg Horde: The GameContinue reading “Horde: The Game Premiere”

Final update about the consortium: The premiere at Western Oregon University of The Theory of Motion was performed beautifully by the ensemble last week. We spent the early part of the week building a custom set of bass wind chimes loosely tuned to important pitch centers throughout the piece. I also gave my first presentationContinue reading “That’s a Wrap: The Consortium Edition”

The premiere of The Theory of Motion will be given on June 11 at Western Oregon University spearheaded by Joel Garza. The final day to join the Consortium is tomorrow as well. I’m very happy with how this project has wrapped up and am excited to share the final project with you all!

Excited for the world premiere of my most recent large scale wind ensemble work, The Clock and the Train, by Southeast Texas Winds & Percussion this Sunday. This is a new professional ensemble based in Southeast Texas and directed by Scott M Deppe, who was the Director of Bands at Lamar while I was a studentContinue reading “World Premiere”

I’d like to announce that my doctoral dissertation has officially been approved and released on Digital Commons through LSU. You can search, find, and download it through Digital Commons, or you can find it using this link: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/6025/ You can also find it on my research page. Stay tuned to new projects, products, and researchContinue reading “Dissertation Drop”

Excited to announce that Rhythmic Mosaics was awarded 2nd Place in The American Prize in Composition (instrumental chamber music). You can read more about the work and results below using the link provided, as well as look at works by the 1st and 3rd place winners. https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2022/09/national-winners-composers-instrumental.html

I’m excited to announce that I have been selected to present some of my dissertation research at the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval. This will also include a performance of my work, Bloom for cello and live electronics, which uses a few algorithms I’ve been developing as part of a larger package writtenContinue reading “ISMIR 2022”

I’m happy to announce that my piece, Rhythmic Mosaics, has been selected as a finalist in the Instrumental Chamber Music College/University division of The American Prize national non-profit competitions in the performing arts. To see the full list of finalists, use the following link: https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/. The American Prize will be announcing winners in my divisionContinue reading “The American Prize Finalist”

Just updated my music and store pages with a brand new piece for saxophone quartet! Check out a sample of the score and read more about it on these pages. The premiere is scheduled for May 2022 in Alba Italy as part of the Alba Music Festival by The Estrella Consort.