Computer Music Journal articles from December 2000

Computer Music Journal archives from December 2000

About This Issue.(Brief Article)(Editorial)
December 22, 2000... It was inevitable. Moore's Law, which describes an exponential increase in computer processing power, has turned the commodity computer into a digital audio workstation. The contemporaneous boom of the World Wide Web and computer games has made...

Creative and Cultural Aspects and Applications of AI and Cognitive Science.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... This symposium was held in April 2000 as part of the Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB-00) at the University of Birmingham, England. AISB-00's theme was "Time for AI and...

Sound in Space at the University of California, Santa Barbara.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, held a weekend symposium in March 2000 entitled Sound in Space. After a welcome and introduction from JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, papers...

Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The fourth annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electroacoustic Music took place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, in April 2000. It was hosted by the College of Santa Fe Contemporary Music Program and included live performances, outdoor...

Lovebytes in Sheffield, England.(Lovebytes 2000 Digital Arts Festival)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The Lovebytes 2000 Digital Arts Festival took over a number of venues in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter in April. Three days of digital art and music events included multimedia presentations, live performances, exhibitions, workshops,...

Kansas City Festival of Electronic Music.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The first annual Kansas City Festival of Electronic Music was held 28-29 April 2000, on the campus of Kansas City Community College in association with the University of Missouri at Kansas City Conservatory of Music. Five concerts of...

Academy Now at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Academy Now was held at the Alexander Gibson Opera Studio of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow, Scothand, in May 2000. Students from the Academy's contemporary theatre practice course collaborated with three local...

JIM 2000 in Bordeaux.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Journees d'Informatique Musicale (JIM) 2000 was held 15-18 May in Bordeaux, France. Papers were presented in seven main sessions: Composition and Writing Tools, Spatialization, General Topics, Psychoacoustics, Musical Analysis, and two sessions...

Dialogues at the Bedlam Theatre, Edinburgh, Scotland.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The fourth Dialogues festival explored different media, articulating crosscurrents between technology and creativity in music with electronics. The three-day program in May 2000 provided an opportunity to hear recent music by fourteen...

Third International GENESIS / CORDIS-ANIMA Workshop.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The third GENESIS / CORDIS-ANIMA workshop, a five-day event entitled Physical Modeling Tools for Creating Music and Graphics, was organized by >l'Association pour la Creation et la Recherche sur les Outils d'Expression (ACROE) and the Danish...

Computer Art Festival in Italy.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The 14th Computer Art Festival of Padua was held at the Maddalene Theater, Padua, Italy at the beginning of June 2000 and featured soloists from Interensemble. The first concert, "ALINE, ALONE -- Sentimental performance", added electronic...

Bourges 2000.(Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art)(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The 27th Bourges International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art took place in association with the 30th Synthese festival in June 2000. Three types of awards were made, Magisterium prizes, Trivium awards, and Residencies....

Prix Ars Electronica 2000.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... In the 2000 Prix Ars Electronica competition, the Golden Nica for Digital Musics was awarded to the German artist and designer Carsten Nicolai for his CD-Edition 20' to 2000. Awards of Distinction were made to Chris Watson for Outside The...

MUTEK -- Music, Sound and New Technology in Montreal.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Foundation Image Light Motion and Sound (FILMS) and EX-CENTRIS, dedicated to independent film and new media, presented the first MUTEK, a five-day event combining music and sound creation with new technology, in Montreal, Canada in June 2000....

Inventionen 2000 Festival in Berlin.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The biennial new music festival Inventionen took place in Berlin, Germany, 20 June-2 July 2000, presenting a series of concerts and sound installations. The festival opened with a press conference at which the publication from Inventionen 1998,...

VII Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... The Seventh Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, chaired by Bernadete Zagonel, was scheduled to be held in Curitiba, the capital of Parana state, Brazil, from 17-20 July 2000 as part of the 20th Congress of the Brazilian Computing Society....

Distorted Media Sound Database.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Distorted Media is an interactive sound database with free access for download and submission. Composers are invited to make use of the sounds for any creative and noncommercial purposes. During the year 2000, the database is being used as...

Remarks on Computer Music Culture.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... Years ago, in the founding days of ASCAP, Richard Rodgers, composer of countless wonderful showtunes, is reputed to have cast "serious" (ASCAP's term to indicate art as opposed to entertainment) composers in the collective role of the...

The Aesthetics of Failure: "Post-Digital" Tendencies in Contemporary Computer Music.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... The digital revolution is over. -- Nicholas Negroponte (1998) Over the past decade, the Internet has helped spawn a new movement in digital music. It is not academically based, and for the most part the composers involved are...

Laptop Performers, Compact Disc Designers, and No-Beat Techno Artists in Japan: Music from Nowhere.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... The 1990s witnessed an explosion in the number of Japanese "digital performers" coming from virtually nowhere--or, more accurately, born directly from digital technology and hardware. Most of them had no musical background. They were graphic...

A Computational Composer's Assistant for Atonal Counterpoint.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2000... Every pitch in rigorous common-practice tonal counterpoint (for instance, a Bach fugue) is subject to definable constraints in a matrix of at least two dimensions: the melodic and the harmonic. In a strict canon, for example, each pitch forms a...

Emotional Coloring of Computer-Controlled Music Performances.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... When interpreting a musical score, performers introduce deviations in time, sound level, and timbre from the values indicated by composers. These deviations depend on the expressive mechanical and acoustical possibilities offered by the...

The 108th Audio Engineering Society Convention.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... Palais des Congres, Paris, France, 19-22 February 2000 The 108th Audio Engineering Society (AES) Convention, a biannual event alternatively held in Europe and North America, was held this past February in Paris. The convention comprised a...

Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States National Conference 2000.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA, 9-11 March 2000 The annual meeting of the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) brought over 150 composers, researchers, and educators to, the University of North...

Sound in Space 2000 Symposium.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2000... Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, 18-19 March 2000 Space. The coming of the new millenium must have brought with it some synchronous concerns, for the theme of space in music...

Simon Reynolds: Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Hardcover, 1998, ISBN 0-316-74111-6, 454 pages, bibiography, discography, index; Little, Brown and Company, World Wide Web www.littlebrown.com or members.aol.com/blissout/; also available in softcover (1999, ISBN 0-415-92373-5) from Routledge,...

Xopher Davidson: Antimatter.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, Artifact 1020; available from Artifact Recordings, 1374 Francisco Street, Berkeley, California 94702, USA; electronic mail info@artifact.com; World Wide Web www.artifact.com In this offering by Xopher Davidson from...

Global Guaranty Orchestra: Weltmeister.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, NWM017CD; available from Ninth World Music, Humlebaekvej 56, DK-3480 Fredensborg, Denmark; telephone (+45) 49-19-20-30; fax (+45) 49-19-20-13; electronic mail renee@city.dk; World Wide Web www.vow.dk/ninthworldmusic/...

Henry Gwiazda: noTnoTesnoTrhyThms.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1996, innova 505; available from innova Recordings, 332 Minnesota Street, Suite E-145, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-1300, USA; telephone (651) 228-1407; fax (651) 291-7978; electronic mail mail@composersforum.org; World Wide Web...

SOUNDS!(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1999, Aanen Lumo Charm of Sound CSR-0199; available from Charm of Sound, P.O. Box 353, Fin-00131 Helsinki, Finland; telephone (+358) 9-754-5407; electronic mail charm_of_sound@yahoo.com; World Wide Web sound.xs2.net ...

Ricercare 1.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, Studio Ricercare CD 1; available from Lucio Garau, via Curzola 8, Milan, Italy; electronic mail ricercare@lucx.com. This disc consists of four tracks of traditional vocal music from the communes of Oniferi and Sinnai in...

Zack Browning: Breakpoint Screamer.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, Capstone Records, CD CPS-8656; available from Albany Music Distributors, Inc., 915 Broadway, Albany, New York 12207, USA; telephone (800) 752-1951 Two releases, two composers with electroacoustic pieces representing two...

Eun-Bae Kim: Sounds of Pusan.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, Capstone Records, CD CPS-8641; available from Albany Music Distributors, Inc., 915 Broadway, Albany, New York 12207, USA; telephone (800) 752-1951 Two releases, two composers with electroacoustic pieces representing two...

Howard Sandroff: Tephillah; Pierre Boulez: Dialogue de l'ombre double; Rami Levin: A New Leaf.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1997, Koch International Classics 3-7088-2 H1; available from Koch International, 2 Tri-Harbor Court, Port Washington, New York 11050, USA; telephone (516) 484-1000; electronic mail kochna@kochint.com; World Wide Web...

Gonzalo Biffarella: Mestizaje.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1997, Chrysopee Electronique -- Bourges Vol. 10 LDC 278 1108; available from Mnemosyne Musique Media, Place Andre Malraux, BP 39, 18001 Bourges Cedex, France; telephone (33) 2-48-20-41-87; fax (33) 2-48-20-45-51; electronic mail...

Jan Boerman: The Complete Tape Music.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc sets, 1998, Donemus CV-NEAR 04/05/06/07/08 (Boerman), CV-NEAR 09/10/11 (Raaijmakers); available from Donemus, Paulus Potterstraat 16, 1071 CZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; telephone (020) 676-4436; fax (020) 673-3588; electronic mail...

Dick Raaijmakers: The Complete Tape Music.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc sets, 1998, Donemus CV-NEAR 04/05/06/07/08 (Boerman), CV-NEAR 09/10/11 (Raaijmakers); available from Donemus, Paulus Potterstraat 16, 1071 CZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; telephone (020) 676-4436; fax (020) 673-3588; electronic mail...

David Cope: Virtual Mozart: Experiments in Musical Intelligence.(Review)
December 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1999, CD CRC 2452; available from Centaur Records, Inc., 136 St. Joseph Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802, USA; telephone (225) 336-4877; fax (225) 336-9678; electronic mail info@centaurrecords.com; World Wide Web...

Coda Music Technology Finale 2000.(Evaluation)
December 22, 2000... Coda Music Technology, 6210 Bury Drive, Eden Prairie, Minnesota 55346-1718, USA; telephone (612) 937-9611; fax (612) 937-9760; finalesales@codamusic.com; World Wide Web www.codamusic.com The past few years have seen an explosion of high end...

Products of Interest.
December 22, 2000... Broadcast Electronics/Sonic Foundry eSTREAM Studio Broadcast Electronics has partnered with Sonic Foundry in an attempt to create a more integrated and powerful environment for streaming audio, and, more generally, streaming media...

CD Program Notes.(Brief Article)(Review)
December 22, 2000... Contents Part One: Kim Cascone, Curator Curator's Note Data-Mining the Noise Floor The universe is random, at the quantum level. Macroscopically, the pattern seems to be perfect; microscopically, it decays into...