The Elon University Electric Ensemble is the living laboratory for live sound production and music performance in commercial & popular styles. Enrollment is by audition. Instrumentation includes, male and female lead & background vocals, lead & rhythm guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, drums, auxiliary percussion, and other instruments as needed.
In addition to performance experience, students have the opportunity to compose and arrange material for performance by the ensemble and mix sound for rehearsal and live performance.
Contact Dr. Todd Coleman for audition information.
AUDIO SAMPLES
"Too Much Time On My Hands"
DIRECTOR
Todd Coleman is a composer and video artist who works within the contemporary "Classical" concert music tradition, but whose works increasingly defy simple categorizations. Recent compositions have incorporated visual elements of multiple projected layers of digital video interwoven with live performers and immersive surround digital audio, blending studio recording and film scoring techniques with prerecorded electronic music and live sound. Coleman has a strong background in technology and the arts, with many commissions and jobs which blur the boundaries between creative disciplines.
Coleman completed his Bachelor of Music degree in composition from Brigham Young University in 1996, winning a number of awards and commissions for his work. He went on to study composition and double bass performance at the Eastman School of Music on a prestigious Jackno Fellowship, earning his Doctorate in 2002. His composition teachers included Joseph Schwantner, Christopher Rouse, Augusta Read Thomas and David Liptak, and he studied double bass with James VanDemark. During that time he received awards for his orchestral and chamber music as well as several commissioned works.
Coleman is an assistant professor of music at Elon University in North Carolina where he coordinates and teaches courses in the new B.S. in Music Technology degree program. Prior to coming to Elon, Coleman taught at Grinnell College in the Music Department for four years after originally joining the Grinnell staff as a Curricular Technology Specialist in Fine Arts in 2002 at the completion of his doctorate in composition at Eastman.
