Computer Music Journal articles from December 1999

Computer Music Journal archives from December 1999

Call for recordings: Sonar Map.(Announcements)
December 22, 1999... Christopher DeLaurenti, producer of the radio program Sonar Map, is looking for "challenging" electroacoustic music. Broadcast on KSER 90.7 FM, Sonar Map is a weekly, late-evening show exploring the frontiers of 20th-century music, Station KSER...

Job vacancies: Pompeu Fabra University.(Announcements)
December 22, 1999... In the academic year 1999-2000, Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, Spain, is launching an expanded degree program specializing in computer music, engineering, and new media. A range of positions will be open over the next four years for...

Southeast Asia's first Conference on Music Technology: call for papers and compositions.(Announcements)
December 22, 1999... The Department of Music at the Universiti Putra Malaysia is holding the Conference on Music Technology in the Third Millenium (the first international conference of its kind in Southeast Asia), 16-18 March 2000. Papers, electroacoustic musical...

Bebe Barron honored at gala for Forbidden Planet.(News)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... Electronic music composer Bebe Barron was honored on 16 June 1999 at a screening of the classic science-fiction film Forbidden Planet (1956), for which she and her late husband Louis created the unique electronic soundtrack. The recording of...

Steven R. Holtzman: 1956-1999.(News)(Obituary)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... Steven R. Holtzman died at his Woodside, California home of cancer at age 43. Born in Great Neck, New York, Mr. Holtzman became an accomplished musician, studied philosophy, and received a doctorate in music and computer science from the...

Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition 1999.(News)
December 22, 1999... The Bourges International Institute of Electroacoustic Music has announced the winners of the 26th International Electroacoustic Music Competition/Bourges 1999. As in the previous three years, awards were made both for electroacoustic music...

Prix Ars Electronica 1999.(News)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... The Prix Ars Electronica competition's music category was renamed from "Computer Music" to "Digital Musics" for 1999, broadening the scope of entries this year. The competition's Golden Nica Award was made to British musician Richard James...

Musica Scienza '99, Rome.(News)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... The 10th International Forum of Contemporary Music, Science, and Culture, entitled "Word versus Sound--Communication, Technology, and Expression in Contemporary Music," was held in Rome, Italy, 1-9 June 1999. The associated conference,...

Open Electronic Festival, Groningen.(News)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... The Open Electronic Festival took place 4-6 June 1999 in the City of Groningen, The Netherlands. Organized by the Cyberslag Foundation, in association with the Groningen Conservatory and the new-media department of the Groningen Academy of Art,...

Manoury celebration, Berkeley.(News)(Philippe Manoury)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... In June 1999, the Berkeley Symphony celebrated the work of French composer Philippe Manoury. The three-part celebration culminated on Wednesday 9 June, with a concert version of Manoury's opera 60th Parallel, conducted by Kent Nagano. The...

Immersion Festival, Melbourne.(News)(Australia)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... Immersion was a series of three concert presentations featuring 17 specially commissioned surround-sound compositions by Australian and international composers exploring a diverse range of methodologies in the exploration of sound in space....

Cambridge Digital Arts Festival.(News)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... The second Cambridge Digital Arts Festival, England, 19-20 June 1999, featured international participants alongside Cambridge composers and local school and university students. A highlight of the festival was a live Internet concert held on...

Dodg'em installation.(News)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... Martine Corompt and Philip Samartzis presented Dodg'em at Gallery 101 in Melbourne, Australia, 24 June-1 July 1999. Dodg'em consisted of two adult-size pedal cars in an invisible sonic landscape. Participants were invited to drive themselves...

Australasian Computer Music Conference.(News)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... The 1999 Australasian Computer Music Conference was held in Wellington, New Zealand, 7-10 July 1999. The conference organizers explained the conference's theme, "Imaginary Space," thus: "Computer music has dramatically altered the way we...

Traiettorie '99, Parma.(News)(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... The ninth International Meeting of Modern and Contemporary Music was held at the Teatro Famese, Parma, Italy, 15 September-3 October 1999. The electroacoustic and computer music concerts included works by JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Yan Maresz, Gerard...

An interview with Barry Vercoe.(Interview)
December 22, 1999... Barry L. Vercoe (see Figure 1) is one of the foremost developers and disseminators of computer music technology. He is best known as the inventor of the Music 360 (Vercoe 1973), Music 11 (Vercoe 1978), Csound (Vercoe 1985), and RTCsound (Vercoe...

Automatic tonal analysis: toward the implementation of a Music Theory Workbench.(Technical report)
December 22, 1999... Work has begun on a software system to support net-based teaching of core music theory courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The first milestone in the project has been the development of kernel software capable of...

Delta-sigma waveguides for music synthesis.(Technical report)
December 22, 1999... Physical modeling of musical instruments has proven to be an interesting and useful technique for sound synthesis, because it provides the variability of real instruments. Natural dynamics can be captured in the model, yielding realistic...

Design and implementation of a real-time digital resonator for the electric cello.(Technical report)
December 22, 1999... Electric stringed instruments such as the electric violin and the electric cello have recently become quite popular. Unlike ordinary stringed instruments, the bodies of most of these electric stringed instruments have no acoustical function at...

Generation of musical sequences with genetic techniques.(Essay)
December 22, 1999... Biologically inspired computational methods have recently attracted much research interest in the field of computer music. This group of methods is a subset of computational intelligence, and is represented by neural networks (NNs), genetic...

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Mikrophonie I.(Concert review)
December 22, 1999... red fish blue fish, Steven Schick, director, Green Umbrella, Los Angeles, California, USA, 26 January 1999 In celebration of Karlheinz Stockhausen's 70th birthday, percussionist Steven Schick mounted a performance of the influential German...

The 1999 NAMM International Music Market.(International Music Products Association, formerly known as National Association of Music Merchants)
December 22, 1999... International Music Products Association, Los Angeles, California, USA, 28-31 January 1999 The NAMM (International Music Products Association, formerly known as National Association of Music Merchants) show, which happens every January in...

McGill Faculty and Guests Series: A Concert of Live Interactive Electronic Works.(Concert review)
December 22, 1999... Zack Settel and Friends, Pollack Hall, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 16 March 1999 As the millennium approaches, it seems inevitable that practitioners of all fields will be drawn to assess their accomplishments to date, and...

Electroacoustic Music by Women Composers.(University of North Texas, 23 and 25 March 1999)
December 22, 1999... Elainie Lillios, curator, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA, 23 and 25 March 1999 In celebration of Women's History Month, Elainie Lillios served as curator for two concerts of "Electroacoustic Music by Women Composers,"...

AISB '99: Symposium on Musical Creativity.(Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-9 April 1999)(Conference news)
December 22, 1999... Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, Edinburgh, Scotland, 6-9 April 1999 Creativity was an underlying theme of the AISB '99 Convention, which was organized by Andrew Patrizio, Geraint A. Wiggins, and...

New Millennium: New Music: Karlheinz Essl.(Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 18 April 1999)(Concert review)
December 22, 1999... Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA, 18 April 1999 On 18 April 1999, the Chicago Cultural Center presented two works by Austrian composer Karlheinz Essl as part of its New Millennium: New Music series. Both compositions provided...

Juilliard Music Technology Center: Annual Concert.(New York City, New York, USA, 23 April 1999)(Concert review)
December 22, 1999... The Juilliard School, New York City, New York, USA, 23 April 1999 The 1999 edition of the annual music technology concert at Juilliard featured works for live performers and electronics by students and faculty as well as two invited guests,...

Academy Now!: Academy Light & Magic.
December 22, 1999... Chandler Studio Theatre, Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, Glasgow, Scotland, 4 May 1999 On 4 May 1999, Academy Light & Magic presented nine short films with recently composed electroacoustic scores. The event was part of the...

Journees d'Informatique Musicales 1999.(Conference news)
December 22, 1999... Centre de Recherche et Developpement de France Telecom, Issy-Les-Moulineaux, France, 17-19 May 1999 The Societe Francaise d'Informatique Musicale (SFIM) organizes an annual computer music conference, each year hosted by a different...

Immersion.(Melbourne, Australia, 7-14 June 1999)(Essay)
December 22, 1999... Melbourne, Australia, 7-14 June 1999 Immersion was a week-long series of events held in Melbourne, Australia, from 7-14 June 1999. It consisted of an introductory concert of live-electronic improvisations, three 1-hr surround-sound events,...

Charles Dodge and Thomas A. Jerse: Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, second edition.(Book review)
December 22, 1999... Charles Dodge and Thomas A. Jerse: Computer Music: Synthesis, Composition, and Performance, second edition Paperback, 1997, ISBN 0-02-8646827, 455 pages, illustrated, glossary, notes, index; Schirmer Books, 1633 Broadway, New York, New...

Sylvie Dallet: Itineraires d'un chercheur--A Career in Research.(Book review)
December 22, 1999... Sylvie Dallet: Itineraires d'un chercheur--A Career in Research Paperback, 1997, 128 pages, ISBN 29510783-0-7, table of contents, photographs; CERPS, 37, rue Carnot, 93100 Montreuil-sous-Bois, France; telephone (+33-1) 4857-5780; World...

Antonia Soulez, Francois Schmitz, and Jan Sebestik, editors: Musique, rationalite, langage. L'harmonie: du monde au materiau (cahiers de philosophie du langage, no 3).(Book review)
December 22, 1999... Antonia Soulez, Francois Schmitz, and Jan Sebestik, editors: Musique, rationalite, langage. L'harmonie: du monde au materiau (cahiers de philosophie du langage, no 3) Paperback, 1998, 202 pages, ISBN 2-7384-7229-X, figures, tables, 120 FF;...

David Cope: Techniques of the Contemporary Composer.(Book review)
December 22, 1999... David Cope: Techniques of the Contemporary Composer Paperback, 1997, ISBN 0-02-8647378, 250 pages, illustrated, bibliography, index; Schirlner Books, 1633 Broadway, New York, New York 10019, USA; World Wide Web http:...

Niall Griffith and Peter Todd, editors: Musical Networks: Parallel Distributed Perception and Performance.(Book review)
December 22, 1999... Niall Griffith and Peter Todd, editors: Musical Networks: Parallel Distributed Perception and Performance Hardcover, 1999, 385 pages, ISBN 0262-07181-9, illustrated, bibliography; The MIT Press, 5 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts...

Desde el Otro Lado [From the other side]: Electroacoustic Music from Latin America.(Sound recording review)
December 22, 1999... Desde el Otro Lado [From the other side]: Electroacoustic Music from Latin America Compact disc 0045, 1998; available from O. O. Discs, 261 Grovers Ave., Black Rock, Connecticut 066053452, USA; telephone (203) 367-7917; fax (2031 333-0603;...

David Tudor: Rainforest (Versions I and IV).(Sound recording review)
December 22, 1999... David Tudor: Rainforest (Versions I and IV) Compact disc, 1998, mode 64; available from mode records, PO Box 1026, New York, New York 10116, USA; fax (212) 979-1027; electronic mail info@mode.com; World Wide Web http://www.mode.com ...

Barry Truax: Song of Songs.(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... Barry Truax: Song of Songs Compact disc, 1994, CSR-CD 9401; available from Cambridge Street Records, 4346 Cambridge St., Burnaby, British Columbia V5C 1H4, Canada; fax (604) 299-3864; World Wide Web http://www.sfu.ca/ ~truax/csr.html

Christian Calon Les corps eblouis.(Sound recording review)
December 22, 1999... Christian Calon Les corps eblouis Compact disc, 1998, Empreintes DIGITALes IMED 9838; available from DIFFUSION i MeDIA, 4580 avenue de Lorimier, Montreal, Quebec H2H 2B5, Canada; electronic mail dim@cam.org; World Wide Web...

Miniatures concretes.(Brief article)
December 22, 1999... Miniatures concretes Compact disc, 1998, Empreintes DIGITALes IMED 9837; available from DIFFUSION i M4DIA, 4580 avenue de Lorimier, Montreal, Quebec H2H 2B5, Canada; electronic mail dim@cam.org; World Wide Web http://www.cam.org/~dim/

Presence.(Sound recording review)
December 22, 1999... Presence Compact discs (2-CD set), 1998, PEP-001; available from Productions electro Productions, RF310 Music Department, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke West, Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Canada; electronic mail cec@vax2.concordia.ca;...

Susan Frykberg: Astonishing Sense of Being Taken over by Something Far Greater than Me.(Sound recording review)
December 22, 1999... Susan Frykberg: Astonishing Sense of being taken over by something far greater than me Compact disc, 1998, es 98003; available from earsay productions, Suite 308, 620 Sixth St., New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 3C5, Canada; telephone...

Gustav Ciamaga, Heinz-Josef Florian, Ron Fein, Bruno Degazio, Kirk Corey, Karl Mohr, Karlheinz Essl, Gordon Monro, James Harley, Robert Del Buono, and Martin Guertner: Roads to Chaos.(Sound recording review)
December 22, 1999... Gustav Ciamaga, Heinz-Josef Florian, Ron Fein, Bruno Degazio, Kirk Corey, Karl Mohr, Karlheinz Essl, Gordon Monro, James Harley, Robert Del Buono, and Martin Guertner: Roads to Chaos Compact disc Soundprints 9603, 1996; available from...

Matthew Burtner: Portals of Distortion.(Sound recording review)
December 22, 1999... Matthew Burtner: Portals of Distortion Compact disc Innova CD 526, 1998; available from American Composers Forum, 332 E. Minnesota St. E-145, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101, USA; World Wide Web http:// www.composersforum.org Matthew Burtner...

EarthWorks microphone preamplifiers.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The EarthWorks LAB series microphone preamplifiers offer a frequency response from 2 Hz to 100 kHz with a variance of [+ or -] 0.1 dB over the entire bandwidth. Measured in the time domain, the units respond to a waveform attack in less than...

French computer music conference on video.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... A new video documentary captures the spirit of the 1996 Journees d'Informatique Musicale (JIM) at Tatihou Island. In a dramatic ocean landscape interposed with 18th-century Vauban architecture, prominent musicians and researchers meet and...

Schoeps CMXY 4V stereo microphone.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The Schoeps CMXY 4V microphone (see Figure 1) is a compact X-Y stereo microphone suited to speech and music recording. The microphone was developed in collaboration with the French state television, whose technical adviser proposed the use of a...

Sonosax SX-PR portable mixer.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The Sonosax SX-PR (see Figure 2) is a small stereo mixer with two to six stereo inputs. The mixer is powered by three 1.5-V C-cell alkaline or nickel-cadmium batteries. The unit can be configured for either right- or left-handed operation,...

Pierre Schaeffer three-CD set, and Solfege de l'objet sonore.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The electroacoustic music of Pierre Schaeffer, the founder of musique concrete in the 1940s, has been rereleased in coproduction with the Electronic Music Foundation (Albany, New York) as a three-CD set with a French and English 80-page booklet...

MarcoHack sound-processing software for Mac OS.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... MarcoHack (see Figure 4) is a freeware sound-processing program for Mac OS Power Macintosh and G3 computers that was developed by Marco Pranger at the Institute of Sonology, The Hague. The main feature of this program is a technique for...

Alesis MasterLink ML-9600 high-resolution CD recorder.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The Alesis MasterLink ML-9600 is a mixdown and mastering system that combines hard-disk recording and editing, digital signal processing, and compact-disc creation in a single unit. The MasterLink ML-9600 allows studios, musicians, and...

Otto Laske, Navigating New Musical Horizons, edited by Jerry Tabor.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... A 232-page book is devoted to the work of Otto E. Laske. In Otto Laske, Navigating New Musical Horizons (ISSN 0193-9041, US$ 59.95), international scholars survey directions in compositional and musicological practices as influenced by Mr....

Elektroakustische Musik und Computer Musik by Martin Supper.(Products of Interest)(Brief article)(Book review)
December 22, 1999... Elektroakustische Musik und Computer Musik by Martin Supper is a compact 207-page softcover book (see Figure 5) on the history, aesthetics, methods, and systems of electroacoustic and computer music. Beginning with a historical chapter, the...

SwarShala Indian drums for sequencing.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... SwarShala software allows users to incorporate tabla, pakhawaj, and ura tracks into a sequenced composition. Version 1 of the program lets one create custom WAV audio and MIDI files for most Indian drums, which are loaded in any sequencer and...

Pictographic Score Notation and 20th-Century Microtonal Notation by Gardner Read.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The 296-page text Pictographic Score Notation (ISBN 0-313-27398-7) by Gardner Read provides the first comprehensive examination of pictographic notation. Pictographic musical notation represents the relevant instruments rendered visually rather...

Opcode MIDIport 32 USB music interface.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... Opcode Systems' MIDIport 32 USB MIDI interface for both Macintosh and Windows interfaces correctly handles the "random reboot" problem that can occur when multiple USB MIDI devices are used simultaneously. Without this Opcode-designed feature,...

Touch "n' Go/Toco y me voy enhanced CD by Damian Keller.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The enhanced compact disc Touch 'n" Go/Toco y me voy features the electroacoustic music of Argentinean composer Damian Keller. This music is based on sound models developed by the composer using Csound and the Cmask utility. The enhanced...

SmartPan Pro surround-sound panning plug-in for ProTools TDM.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The SmartPan Pro TDM plug-in brings discrete 5.1 surround-sound mixing to the ProTools environment (US$ 995). It allows ProTools to generate six-channel surround mixes by allocating three stereo channels to serve as a virtual output bus. The...

Tascam DA-45HR 24-bit DAT recorder.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The Tascam DA-45HR (see Figure 6) records 24-bit audio samples at either 44.1- or 48-kHz sampling rates. The recording medium is ordinary digital audio tape (DAT). Besides the typical tape-transport controls (start, stop, etc.), the unit also...

Yamaha FS1R digital synthesizer.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The FS1R digital synthesizer by Yamaha offers "Yamaha formant-shaping synthesis," based on an architecture that is suited to Yamaha's well-known frequency modulation (FM) synthesis of the type introduced in the legendary Yamaha DX-series...

fLOW 1.1 ambient sound generator for Mac OS.(Products of Interest)
December 22, 1999... The fLOW 1.1 computer program (see Figure 7) runs on Apple Macintosh G3 (or fast PPC) machines. Written in MSP, it generates an ever-changing and never-repeating soundscape in real time that fills the space with flooding sounds that...

CD program notes.(Essay)
December 22, 1999... Curator's Note For years the electroacoustic music that reached our ears here in the south arrived mostly from recordings made in a few western countries of the Northern Hemisphere. It was rare to hear the music of the many colleagues from...