Andrew Seager Cole is a composer, guitarist, and media artist splitting his time between Appleton, Wisconsin and Kansas City, Missouri. He has written contemporary acoustic and electro-acoustic music, collaborated with film makers, directors, artists, dancers, and taken part in a number of interactive instillations. He is a founding member of the Baltimore based new music group AfterNow and the vice president of the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance.
Andrew is currently a Chancellor's Doctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri Kansas City. He has a BA in philosophy and music at Goucher college, and MM's in both Computer Music and Composition at Peabody Conservatory. Until the summer of 2008 he worked as the Johns Hopkins Unversity Digital Media Center's Digital Audio Specialist and taught digital media at Johns Hopkins University and electronic music at Loyola College of Maryland.
He is the recipient of several awards including first place in the 2008 National Association of Composers USA Young Composers Compeition, the Otto Ortman award, the Robert Hall Lewis award, a computer music graduate assistantship at the Peabody Conservatory, and First Place in the 2006 Prix d' Ete competition. In 2001 he received a Strategic Planning G-rant from Goucher College for the Perpendicular Dialogues multimedia exhibition. The dance and music elements of the exhibition were eventually taken to the Edinborough Dance Festival.
His works have been performed throughout the world at events and festivals.
Web: http://www.twocomposers.org/andrew/about.html (2011)