About the Ensemble: The Audio Visual Collective (AVC) is the front facing ensemble of the Electronic Music Ensemble course. AVC has been and continues to be a student-driven and faculty supported collective focused on developing live audio-visual performances through technology (which has so far included coding, patching, and animation, as well as digital, analog, and traditional instrumentation). The ensemble performs, composes, and investigates works for Live Audio Visual Ensembles. The AVC defines Live Audio Visual Ensembles as those that perform works meeting the following requirements:

Works involve performative media (Live)
Works involve at least two media (Audio & Visual)
Works involve at least two performers (Ensemble)

The Audio-Visual Collective is now in its fourth year. In their first year, the ensemble performed a set of four works during the Performing Media Festival [PMF~] including three world premieres written by members of the ensemble. The festival also featured guest artists from Kansas City, Missouri, and Philadelphia. In their second year, the ensemble performed once again at [PMF~], premiering three new works by ensemble members alongside faculty and guest artist works. Participating at the Midwest Media Arts showcase, the ensemble premiered two additional works at Langlab Studios in South Bend. Additionally, the ensemble was invited to perform and participate in a panel discussion at Ball State's Electronic Ensemble Summit. The collective is supported by the faculty in both the Integrated New Media Studies and the Music Departments at the Ernestine M. Raclin School of the Arts.

Course Description: Building off of the laptop ensemble paradigm as well as other electronic ensembles at universities around the country, this course offers an opportunity to perform interactive audio-visual works using laptops, tablets, various sensors, controllers, synths, and other performative instruments and technologies. Members act 
as performers, researchers, composers, designers, and software developers. Through this course, students will gain an understanding of how to use emerging technologies to create performative multimedia works in an ensemble environment.