Photograph of (l-r) Pat Coil, Rodney Booth, and Mike Steinel performing "Chelsea's Dream" at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. Coil is playing the grand piano while the other two men play the flugelhorn.

Photograph of Mike Steinel (left) and John Patrick Murphy (right) performing Pat Coil's composition, "Here and Back Again," at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. The men are standing side by side, playing the trumpet and saxophone, respectively.

Photograph of Pat Coil (left) and Fred Hamilton (right) at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. The men are standing side by side, looking down. A guitar is hanging from Hamilton's shoulder by a strap.

Photograph of Pat Coil (left) and Fred Hamilton (right) at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. The men are standing across from each other and appear to be conversing.

Photograph of Pat Coil (left) and John Patrick Murphy (right) at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. Murphy is seated, looking up at Coil, who is standing over him.

Photograph of Pat Coil performing at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. Coil is facing to the left of the camera, playing the grand piano in front of him.

Photograph of Pat Coil performing at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. Coil is facing to the left of the camera, playing a piano that is out of frame.

Photograph of Pat Coil performing at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. Coil is sitting with his back to the camera, playing the grand piano in front of him.

Photograph of (l-r) Lynn Seaton, Ed Soph, Fred Hamilton, John Patrick Murphy, and another man at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. Seaton is holding the neck of a double bass in his right hand. Murphy is playing the saxophone.

Photograph of Rodney Booth (left) and Fred Hamilton (right) at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. Booth is facing Hamilton, who appears to be speaking to a third man in the foreground.

Photograph of Rodney Booth (left) and Pat Coil (right) at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. The men are standing side by side, looking down at the sheets of paper in Booth's hands.

Photograph of Rodney Booth (left) and Pat Coil (right) at a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. The men are standing side by side, holding sheet music in their hands.

Photograph of the sheet music for Pat Coil's composition, "Skeets," taken during a faculty jazz recital in the University of North Texas' College of Music building. The page is sitting among other compositions on a sheet music stand.

Photograph of the prologue of the opera "Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann)" performed at the University of North Texas' Murchison Performing Arts Center. Hoffmann, played by William Joyner, is standing in a tavern with a group of students.

Photograph of Andrew May, Associate Professor of Composition at the University of North Texas, standing in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater during the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music).

Photograph of Andrew May performing "Flower" at the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music) held at the UNT Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater. May is playing the violin and smiling.

Photograph of Benjamin Shirey (left), staff member at UNT's Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, with guest artist Marek Chołoniewski (right) at the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music) Festival and Conference. Chołoniewski is wearing the NeuroSky MindWave Mobile device used in his "Waves for brainwaves" performance.

Photograph of a man using a mixing console during a performance at the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music).

Photograph of a man using a mixing console during a performance at the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music).

Photograph of a man using a mixing console during a performance at the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music).

Photograph of a man using a mixing console during a performance at the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music).

Photograph of a screen displaying footage of a keyboard during a performance at the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music).

Photograph of a screen displaying footage of an audience watching another screen during a performance at the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music).

Photograph of Ermír Bejo (left) and Zachary Thomas (right), staff members at UNT's Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, working sound during the 2014 CIME/ICEM (International Conference on Electroacoustic Music).