Music Department faculty members, Frank Clark and Chris Moore, lead the multimedia performance group, comprised of faculty and students.
The performance interests of Frank Clark focus on the development of tools and techniques for the real-time musical control of video, animation, graphics, sound, text, and lighting systems. His primary performance instruments are the Yamaha Mark IV Disklavier and the Steiner EVI. Some of his recent multimedia compositions include:
•    Images of Air and Light (to be premiered March 2009 by Sonic Generator)
•    Sappho (2007)
•    Colors of Pitch and Shape (2005)
•    A Sensation of Music: Works by Walter Anderson (Carnegie Hall premiere in 2001)
Chris Moore currently serves as Director of Athletic Bands and Coordinator of Percussion. He is an active freelance performer, clinician, arranger, composer, and film scorer. In 1999 he served as percussion consultant to Wynton Marsalis on three large works for the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic.
The Electronic Percussion Ensemble (MIDI Ensemble), which Moore directs, presents new percussion performance practices in a contemporary medium through the use of electronically triggered devices and theatrical lighting and staging. This combination of elements unites aural and visual entertainment. It is the intent of the ensemble to give a uniquely creative twist on the typical percussion ensemble performance. The MIDI ensemble gives students a chance to use their classroom knowledge to build their own electronic instruments and perform with them. Virtually any surface becomes the canvas from which performers paint aural images. These timbres combined with performance-controlled images create a diverse multi-media environment.