Computer Music Journal articles from June 2000

Computer Music Journal archives from June 2000

New editorial lineup at Computer Music Journal.(Editor's Notes)
June 22, 2000... This Editor's Note introduces some new faces among Computer Music Journal's editorial staff. To start with, we bid farewell to Curtis Roads, who with this issue is retiring from the Journal after almost 22 years of service. Curtis is...

Genetic algorithms in visual art and music--workshop in Las Vegas, Nevada, 8 July 2000.(Announcements)
June 22, 2000... A workshop on genetic algorithms in visual art and music (GAVAM 2000) will be held during the first day of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation conference (GECCO-2000) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 8-12 July 2000. The idea of using...

Artificial intelligence and music: toward formal models for composition, performance, and analysis--workshop in Austin, Texas, 31 July 2000.(Announcements)
June 22, 2000... This workshop is being held as part of the 17th national conference of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000) in Austin, Texas, USA, 80 July-3 August 2000. While the artificial-intelligence-and-music (AIM) field...

Sound and music technology--special session in Maastricht, The Netherlands, 4-7 September 2000.(Announcements)
June 22, 2000... This special session on sound and music technology is part of the Workshop on Multimedia and Telecommunications, which will take place within the 26th Euromicro Conference, Informatics: Inventing the Future, to be held 4-7 September 2000. ...

Conference on digital audio effects, Verona, Italy, December 2000.(Announcements)
June 22, 2000... The Department of Science and Technology of the University of Verona is organizing the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx-00, in Verona, 7-9 December 2000. The conference is sponsored by the European COST program, and...

Acoustics and Music: Theory and Applications--conference in Jamaica, December 2000.(Announcements)
June 22, 2000... Acoustics and Music: Theory and Applications, AMTA 2000, is organized by the World Scientific and Engineering Society, and will be held at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 20-22 December 2000. Papers have been invited on all aspects of acoustics and...

Computer music program at Les Ateliers Upic.(Announcements)
June 22, 2000... Les Ateliers Upic, Paris, France is offering a two-semester university-level program in Computer Music and Composition from 2 October, 2000 to 31 May 2000. The program will include two comprehensive courses, on computer music techniques taught...

SEAMUS honors Paul Lansky.(News)(Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States)(Brief article)
June 22, 2000... The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Award is given annually to individuals whose lifetime achievements and contributions have greatly advanced the art, craft, and technology of electroacoustic music in the USA....

Prize winners of the International Electroacoustic Music Competition, MUSICA NOVA '99.(News)(Prague, November 1999)(Brief article)
June 22, 2000... The International Electroacoustic Music Competition, MUSICA NOVA '99, was held in Prague in November 1999. A total of 69 pieces from 22 countries were considered. In the category Compositions of Autonomous Art Electroacoustic Music, first prize...

Prize winners of the Electroacoustic Music Competition, EAR '99.(News)(Brief article)
June 22, 2000... The HEAR Studio of the Hungarian Radio announced the results of the third Electroacoustic Music Competition, EAR '99, held in Budapest in November 1999. In the tape-music category, two first prizes were awarded: to Francis Dhomont (Canada) for...

Winners of the first Ciber@RT Festival International Electroacoustic Music Competition.(News)(13-21 November 1999, Valencia, Spain)(Brief article)
June 22, 2000... The fourth Ciber@RT Festival took place between 13-21 November 1999 in Valencia, Spain, and for the first time the festival included an international composition competition. Of the 57 works submitted, the jury selected 5 finalists which were...

Royal Musical Association Research Students' Conference focuses on computer music.(News)(6-9 January 2000 at The University of Huddersfield)(Brief article)
June 22, 2000... The 33rd Royal Musical Association Research Students' Conference was held 6-9 January 2000 at The University of Huddersfield, UK. The RMA Students' Conferences are designed to showcase work by postgraduate students from music departments across...

Sonic Residues in Melbourne, Australia.(News)(6-12 March 2000)(Brief article)
June 22, 2000... Sonic Residues was a week-long festival of electroacoustic music, sound art, and installations held in Melbourne, Australia, 6-12 March 2000. It was billed as "a web of interactions defined by the score, the space, the time, the performer. An...

Sound diffusion in composition and performance: an interview with Denis Smalley.(Interview)
June 22, 2000... This is the first of a series of recent interviews I have been conducting with leading composer-practitioners of electroacoustic and computer music whose contributions to the art and technology of sound diffusion have been key to its...

Sonic composition in Tongues of Fire.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2000... In composing, I differentiate between the procedures I use to generate compositional materials and the structures I lay out for the listener. It's not important for the listener to know anything about my compositional procedures, but I hope...

The new GENDYN program.
June 22, 2000... This article gives an account of a research project conducted during 1995-1997 studying the GENDYN program and music. The GENDYN program is the software implementation of dynamic stochastic synthesis, a rigorous algorithmic composition...

A computer-assisted version of Stockhausen's Solo for a Melody Instrument with Feedback.(Karlheinz Stockhausen)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2000... Solo for a Melody Instrument with Feedback was composed in March and April 1966 for a commission from the Japanese Radio Broadcasting Services. The piece belongs to a period in which Karlheinz Stockhausen was using microphones, filters, sine...

Extending spectral modeling synthesis with transient modeling synthesis.(Technical report)
June 22, 2000... Sinusoidal modeling has enjoyed a rich history in both speech and music applications, including sound transformations, compression, denoising, and auditory scene analysis. For such applications, the underlying signal model must efficiently...

Rhythm quantization for transcription.(Technical report)
June 22, 2000... Automatic music transcription is the extraction of an acceptable musical description from performed music. Interest in this problem is motivated by the desire to design a program that automatically notates a performance. In general, when...

ICMC '99.(International Computer Music Conference, 22-28 October 1999, Beijing, China)(Conference news)
June 22, 2000... International Computer Music Conference, Beijing, China, 22-28 October 1999 The International Computer Music Conference was held in Beijing, China, a bustling city with its feet in the 15th century while reaching toward the 21st. Scant...

Interactive Arts Festival.(Columbia University, 6-9 April 1999, New York, New York, USA)(Brief article)
June 22, 2000... Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, 6-9 April 1999 The 1999 Columbia University Interactive Arts Festival was directed by Thanassis Rikakis and hosted by the Columbia University Computer Music Center. The event celebrated the...

Movement and Sound, Merce Cunningham Dance Theater.(Dance review)
June 22, 2000... In Movement Study II, Wayne Siegel employs the DIEM (Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music) Digital Dance Suit, developed by Mr. Siegel and Jens Jacobsen, as an elegant and transparent interface between a solo dancer, Mata Sakka, and the...

Multimedia Interactive Works, Miller Theater.(Columbia Interactive Arts Festival)
June 22, 2000... Since three of the four works on the second program of the Columbia Interactive Arts Festival utilized real-time computer-generated video, a massive screen was stretched across the shallow stage, adding a cinematic aspect to the concert...

Interactive Technologies in Jazz, Rock, and Improvisatory Works, The Kitchen.(Concert review)
June 22, 2000... For the first work of the Jazz, Rock, and Improvised Music concert, Joshua Fried presented his Radio Wonderland. Before Mr. Fried entered the stage, the audience had the opportunity to ponder his sonic devices: the Musical Shoes, a collection...

Musica Scienza 1999.(Centro di Ricerche Musicali, 1-2 June 1999, Rome, Italy)
June 22, 2000... Centro di Ricerche Musicali, Rome, Italy, 1-2 June 1999 Musica Scienza is an international festival of music, art, and contemporary culture organized each year by Centro di Ricerche Musicali (CRM) of Rome. It consists of a series of...

Georg Hajdu: Der Sprung.(Wireworks Orchestra, Pumpenhaus Theater, 2-3 October 1999, Munster, Germany)(Opera review)
June 22, 2000... Wireworks Orchestra, Pumpenhaus Theater, Munster, Germany, 2-3 October 1999 Like no other genre, the music theater of recent years has been subject to polarization. On the one hand, conventional institutionalized methods have a tendency to...

Technology and Teaching Music.(Annual Meeting for the Association for Technology in Music Instruction, 14-17 October 1999, Denver, Colorado, USA)(Conference news)
June 22, 2000... 1999 Annual Meeting for the Association for Technology in Music Instruction, Denver, Colorado, USA, 14-17 October 1999 How many times have you heard the phrase "taking us into the next millennium" in the last three or four years? Usually at...

IRCAM@Columbia 1999.(Columbia University, 15-21 November 1999, New York, New York, USA)(Brief article)
June 22, 2000... Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, 15-21 November 1999 This past November, Columbia University hosted a series of concerts, lectures, and workshops by Institute de Recherche et Coordination, Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in New York...

The Music of Jonathan Harvey Ensemble 21, with technical assistance by IRCAM.(Concert review)
June 22, 2000... The first concert of IRCAM@ Columbia was devoted to the music of composer Jonathan Harvey; the works performed ranged from fairly recent (1994) to relatively well established (1980). Mr. Harvey has had several residencies at IRCAM, and the...

Works by Magnus Lindberg and Tristan Murail Ensemble Sospeso, with technical assistance by IRCAM.(Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique)(Concert review)
June 22, 2000... Throughout the past two decades, IRCAM has been an expanding forum for collaboration, exchange, and innovation, and a trigger for a broad range of technological applications in music. It seems that such an integration of the creative powers of...

IRCAM Forum @ Columbia: Lectures, Conversations, Demos.(Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique)(Conference news)
June 22, 2000... On Friday, 19 November, several of IRCAM's most noteworthy denizens presented a day of lectures and demonstrations regarding current activities there. The day-long events were free and open to the public, and an impressive crowd of over 300...

IRCAM Forum @ Columbia: Workshops.(Conference news)
June 22, 2000... Closing the week of IRCAM activities at Columbia University were two days of workshops on IRCAM techniques and software at the Columbia Computer Music Center. These workshops gave 48 participants the possibility to examine more closely IRCAM's...

Jerry Tabor, editor: Otto Laske: Navigating New Musical Horizons.(Book review)
June 22, 2000... Jerry Tabor, editor: Otto Laske: Navigating New Musical Horizons Greenwood Press, 1999, 232 pages, hardcover, illustrated, bibliography, index, ISBN 0-813-30632-X; available from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Rd. West, Westport, Connecticut...

Mark Kahrs and Karlheinz Brandenburg, eds.: Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics.(Book review)
June 22, 2000... Mark Kahrs and Karlheinz Brandenburg, eds.: Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998, 545 pages, hardcover, illustrated, bibliography, index, available from Kluwer Academic...

Eduardo Reck Miranda: Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician.(Book review)
June 22, 2000... Eduardo Reck Miranda: Computer Sound Synthesis for the Electronic Musician Focal Press, 1998, 208 pages, softcover/CD-ROM, illustrated, appendices, bibliography, CD-ROM instructions, index, ISBN 0-240-51517-X; available from Focal Press...

Caipirinha Music Architettura Series: Vol. 1 Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree: Tower of Winds; Vol. 2 Tetsu Inoue: Waterloo Terminal; Vol. 3 David Toop: Museum of Fruit.(Sound recording review)
June 22, 2000... Caipirinha Music Architettura Series: Vol. 1 Savvas Ysatis and Taylor Deupree: Tower of Winds; Vol. 2 Tetsu Inoue: Waterloo Terminal; Vol. 3 David Toop: Museum of Fruit Compact discs, 1998/1999, Caipirinha Music cai2007 (vol. 1), cai2016...

CDCM Computer Music Series, Vol. 28: Larry Austin: SoundPlays, Cityscapes, SoundPortraits--1993-96.(Sound recording review)
June 22, 2000... CDCM Computer Music Series, Vol. 28: Larry Austin: SoundPlays, Cityscapes, SoundPortraits--1993-96 Compact disc, 1999, Centaur CRC 2428; available from CDCM, P.O. Box 50888, Denton, Texas 76206, USA; telephone (940) 591-8128; electronic...

Alessandro Cipriani and Stefano Taglietti: II Pensiero Magmatico.(Sound recording review)
June 22, 2000... Alessandro Cipriani and Stefano Taglietti: II Pensiero Magmatico Compact disc, 1998, EDIPAN CD 3059; available from Edizioni Musicali EDIPAN, Viale Mazzini 6, 00195 Rome, Italy; telephone (6) 322-3474 Il Pensiero Magmatico (Magmatic...

The Residents: Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible.(Sound recording review)
June 22, 2000... The Residents: Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible Compact disc, 1998, East Side Digital, ESD 81332; available from East Side Digital, 530 North 3rd St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401, USA; telephone (612)375-0233; fax (612) 375-9580;...

Alvin Lucier: 40 Rooms.(Audiovisual review)
June 22, 2000... Alvin Lucier: 40 Rooms CD-ROM, 1998, iEAR Studios, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA; available from Electronic Music Foundation, 116 North Lake Ave., Albany, New York 12206, USA; telephone (5181 434-4110; fax (6181...

Erich Neuwirth: Musical Temperaments (translated by Rita Steblin).(Book review)
June 22, 2000... Erich Neuwirth: Musical Temperaments (translated by Rita Steblin) CD-ROM (for Windows/NT) and text, 8pringer-Verlag, 1997, 70 pages, softcover, illustrated, tables, operating instructions, glossary, ISBN 3-211-83040-5; available from...

CyberQuilt: An ICMA CD-ROM Anthology.(Sound recording review)
June 22, 2000... CyberQuilt: An ICMA CD-ROM Anthology CD-ROM (for Macintosh), 1999, ICMA CDR001; available from International Computer Music Association, 2040 Polk St., Suite 330, San Francisco, California 94109, USA; telephone (650) 493-9448; fax (650)...

Music from the Virginia Center for Computer Music.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... A new compact disc in the Consortium to Distribute Computer Music (CDCM) series features the Virginia Center for Computer Music (VCCM), founded in 1988 by Judith Shatin. The VCCM staff includes Judith Shatin, director; Alicyn Warren, associate...

MIDINet for Ethernet.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... MIDINet allows one to transcend the current distance, bandwidth, and routing limitations of MIDI. A MIDINet system is conceptually simple, effectively providing many virtual MIDI cables across Ethernet. A MIDINet system comprises a number of...

Virtual Sound by Riccardo Bianchini and Alessandro Cipriani.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... Csound is a well-known programming language for sound synthesis. Following on their successful Italian version of this text, authors and composers Riccardo Bianchini and Alessandro Cipriani have brought forth a new English-language version....

Sonosax Stelladat II recorder, with 96-kHz sampling rate.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... The Sonosax Stelladat II (about US$ 8,000) is not an ordinary DAT recorder. It will record four tracks, not the usual two, at a 48-kHz sampling rate, with 16 bits per sample. It can also be used in a high-resolution 96-kHz sampling-rate mode on...

CPS MPEG-4 audio programming environment for Windows.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... CPS is a real-time programming environment for audio, MIDI, and other media. All MPEG-4 Structured Audio objects are included in CPS. Objects in CPS have a dynamic number of inputs and outputs, and it is possible to work with sample-level...

The New Stereo Sound Book by Ron Streicher and F. Alton Everest.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... This second edition of an industry standard, The New Stereo Sound Book by Ron Streicher and F. Alton Everest, adds to and updates this reference work (see Figure 3). This book's 14 chapters discuss the auditory and technical processes by which...

Reaktor software synthesizer by Native Instruments for Windows and Mac OS, with 4CONTROL MIDI controller.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... The Berlin-based Native Instruments company has introduced a modular software synthesizer with a graphical interface for Windows and Mac OS computers. Reaktor (US$ 469) synthesizes sound in 32-bit floating-point format, with sampling rates from...

Metasonix PT-1 vacuum-tube synthesizer.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... The PT-1 Phattytron (US$ 2,400) is the first commercial vacuum-tube music synthesizer. The PT-1 does not sound like conventional analog synthesizers. This is because the electrical behavior of tube circuitry is unlike that of solid-state...

Empreintes DIGITALes new CD releases.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... empreintes DIGITALes, a recording label based in Montreal specializing in electroacoustic music, has announced six new compact discs. The new releases include: Paul Dolden's L'ivresse de la vitesse (double CD), IMED 9917/18; Robert Normandeau's...

VXpocket high-resolution recording with laptop computers for Mac OS and Windows.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... BIAS is offering bundles of software and hardware to provide professional digital and analog input and output for laptop computers (Mac OS and Windows), along with digital recording and editing software. The Peak Le Powerbook Edition (US$ 729)...

Stockhausen-Verlag new publications.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... Karlheinz Stockhausen is one of the pioneers of electronic music, although for the past three decades he has focused mainly on compositions for traditional acoustic instruments. His family-run publishing house, Stockhausen-Verlag, has published...

Marimba Lumina.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... Nearfield Multimedia, a division of Nearfield Systems, has announced their first product, the Marimba Lumina (see Figure 6). The result of a collaboration with instrument designer Don Buchla, the Marimba Lumina is an electronic controller that...

The Csound Book, edited by Richard Boulanger.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... The Csound Book (US$ 55), edited by Richard Boulanger, has been published by The MIT Press (see Figure 7). Csound is one of the most widely used software sound-synthesis systems. Mastering Csound can take a good deal of time and effort. But...

Crusher-X live real-time fog sound synthesis for Windows.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... The Crusher-X synthesis program realizes "fog synthesis," enabling users to synthesize complex sound waves. This shareware functions as a synthesizer or as an effects unit. Users can create sounds with the internal oscillators, or they can...

Digidesign Digi 001 ProTools system for Mac OS and Windows.(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... Digidesign's Digi 001 (US$ 995) is an audio/MIDI, hardware/software solution in one package (see Figure 8). The system works with both Mac OS and Windows platforms. The hardware of the Digi 001 consists of a plug-in card and a breakout box. The...

DPA microphones (formerly Bruel & Kjaer).(Products of Interest)
June 22, 2000... The microphones formerly known as Bruel & Kjaer (B&K) Series 4000 microphones, one of the most celebrated brand names in the professional audio world, have been redesignated as DPA Microphones. Ole Brosted Sorensen, original designer of many...