ICMC BOSTON 2025
Online Listening Room
Curiosity, Play, Innovation - A 50th Anniversary Celebration of Creativity in Music, Science, and Technology
June 8-14, 2025

ICMC BOSTON 2025: Online Listening Room #6
ID#: 877
Holoscenic (2024) ; 4:24
by Sean Peuquet
Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design
Holoscenic is a driving, beat-oriented reflection on the present as framed by a sense of nostalgia for a time prior to human existence, pre-Anthropocene. The sounds are crunchy and diverse, from both sampled and synthesized sources. The tonality is conventional, and yet the arrangement feels slightly askew. The simplicity of melodic elements are constantly disrupted by the mechanical sounding percussion, and the densely layered and spectrally rich swells of reverberant pads. There’s no “outside” to the immediacy and presence of the track’s sound world, despite the feeling, suggestion, or desire for one.

Sean Peuquet
Sean is a composer, installation artist, audio programmer, curator, scholar, and educator. He presents his work regularly at national and international venues for contemporary art and music such as the International Computer Music Conference (Limerick, Daegu, Shanghai, Utrecht, Ljubljana, Belfast), Sound and Music Computing Conference (Cyprus), New York City Electronic Music Festival, Toronto Electroacoustic Music Symposium, Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society (Seoul), Sines and Squares (Manchester, UK), Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Society of Composers, Inc., Electronic Music Midwest, VU Symposium, and more. In 2022, Sean’s piece “Plane of Slight Elevation” (2021) was awarded Best Music: Americas by the International Computer Music Association. He has received numerous commissions for concert music, installations, and artist workshops at venues including Communikey (CMKY), The Ellie Caulkins Opera House, and Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver. In 2020, Meow Wolf commissioned Sean to compose an immersive and generative music and sound installation as part of their permanent Denver exhibition space, Convergence Station, which opened to the public in 2021. Sean has been artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, FL (working with Robert Normandeau), and ART 352 in Fort Collins, CO. Sean is Associate Professor and Chair of the Music Production Department at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design in Denver, CO. Between 2015 to 2020, Sean served as Program Director and Lead Music Instructor for the Madelife Creative Accelerator program, based in Boulder, CO. From 2012 to 2014, he served as Visiting Professor of Digital Arts at Stetson University while completing his PhD in Music Composition at the University of Florida (‘13). He received his MA in Electro-Acoustic Music from Dartmouth College (‘07) and holds a BA in Music, Psychology, and Astronomy from the University of Virginia (‘05).
* winner, Berklee College of Music internal music composition competition for ICMC Boston 2025
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