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Oct 9, 2008 San Francisco, CA

TrioMetrik on North Bay Reporter
Mar 12, 2007 San Francisco, CA

Keith on KRON 4
Mar 04, 2007 San Francisco, CA
BEAM Foundation Launches “No Note Left Behind” Project to preserve and create Modern Music
Feb 20, 2007 San Francisco, CA

Keith on Comcast Local Edition
Jan 10, 2007 San Rafael, CA
The BEAM Foundation Receives Argosy Grant
Dec 6, 2006 Berkeley, CA
TrioMetrik featured at Bellingham Electronic Arts Festival
Dec 2, 2006 Seattle, WA
TrioMetrik plays Recombinant Media Labs during AES
Nov 9, 2006 San Francisco, CA
TrioMetrik called Future of New Music
Nov 9, 2006 Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
BEAM awards two Commissions for NuRoque Composers
July 15, 2006 Berkeley, CA
BEAM hosts Composers workshops at Stanford and Berkeley for "NuRoque"
May 26, 2006 Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
BEAM Foundation to Offer Commissions to Composers
May 15, 2006 Berkeley, CA
04/06/06 - TrioMetrik plays NuRoque Music
Apr 6, 2006 San Francisco, CA
Comments about TrioMetrik
“I think TrioMetrik has the potential to make some significant advances in how we think of and appreciate music. Not only has Keith developed a marvelous technological tool for enabling new musical ideas, but the TrioMetrik players possess a unique combination of talent and eager minds capable of implementing those new ideas. TrioMetrik has my attention.”
- Roger Linn
Musician & Instrument Designer
“TrioMetrik is a modern composer's dream come true, an ensemble for live performance that combines composition and improvisation at a core level. It is a group that integrates both approaches and amplifies the strengths of each.”
- Paul Dresher
Composer and Musician
“TrioMetrik's MACIAS system is a tremendously flexible composer's and performer's toolkit. I look forward to seeing composers find ways to adapt the system to their individual styles and formal obsessions. Orson Welles once said, that a movie studio was "... the biggest electric train set a boy ever had". I think TrioMetrik just may be the modern composer's electric train set.”
- Jay Cloidt
Composer
“TrioMetrik is capable of a wide assortment of aesthetics and sound worlds. Also, the Trio can transition through these changes with a smoothness unexpected of realtime digital audio instrumentalists.”
- Eric Roth
Composer - Mills College
“Composition is music as design. Think of it as the X axis. Improvisation is music as conversation. Think of it as the Y axis. TrioMetrik is on the Z axis.”
- John Lazzaro
Computer Scientist - UC Berkeley
“TrioMetrik enables each performer to participate in a composition from the perspective of the conductor, giving fresh meaning to the very ideas of composing, conducting, and improvising. The result is music that leads the listener into deeper collaborations of sound, rhythm, harmony, and feeling.”
- Professor Frederick M. Dolan
UC Berkeley
“I have been a close observer of Keith McMillen's musical journey over the past 25 years. Early in that period, Keith had a vision for what music could be and how musicians could be freed to create without limitations. Keith has steadily marched towards achieving that vision and TrioMetrik is a major step forward in that trek. The concert in June was fun, moving, and exciting. The musicianship was outstanding and the audience could clearly see the rich interaction between the performers. I will definitely want to see the next TrioMetrik performance when they come to town again!”
- Steve Sherman
CEO - Berrilian, Inc
“It was fascinating to attend the concert. I'm pleased to see TrioMetrik pushing the creative envelope ever outward, especially since I've been around to see these concepts mature. Making truly new music is hard work, but someone has to do it. Further!”
- Ted Nirgiotis
Professor of Mathematics, DVC