Kari Besharse -
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Published on: 12/13/2006
Last Visited: 3/27/2007
Kari Besharse is a composer working in both electroacoustic and acoustic mediums.She is interested in finding new ways to combine the two mediums through the use of electronic processing of live acoustic instruments and the processing of sound events from everyday life.Outside of sound, Ms. Besharse also works to collaborate with the other arts such as dance, theater, and video, and bring them together with technology.She believes in using the tools given to us by technology in a meaningful way which expands the expressive power of art.
Kari Besharse is currently a doctoral student at the University of Illinois working in both electroacoustic and acoustic mediums.She completed her undergraduate studies in composition at the University of Missouri at Kansas City and her Masters degree at the University of Texas at Austin.
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Recently, Kari was awarded a Bourges Residence Prize for Small Things.The residency was completed at the University of Birmingham Electroacoustic Music Studios in England where she created a new eight channel tape piece, Firmament.
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©2005 by Kari Besharse
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Kari Besharse is a member of Society of Composers, Inc.SCI is dedicated to the promotion of composition, performance, understanding and dissemination of new and contemporary music.