Computer Music Journal articles from March 2000

Computer Music Journal archives from March 2000

International Computer Music Conference, Berlin.(Announcements)
March 22, 2000... The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is the largest and most important annual international conference in the field of computer music technology and composition. ICMC 2000 will feature about 20 concerts, numerous sound...

Australasian Computer Music Conference--Brisbane, Australia.(Announcements)
March 22, 2000... The Australasian Computer Music Conference (ACMC) is the annual conference of the Australasian Computer Music Association (ACMA). Although members of the association are drawn primarily from computer musicians in Australia and New Zealand,...

Seventh Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music--Curitiba, Brazil.(Announcements)
March 22, 2000... The Seventh Brazilian Symposium, chaired by Bernadete Zagonel (electronic mail bzagonel@rocketmail.com), will be held in Curitiba, the capital of the state of Parana, 17-20 July 2000. The Brazilian symposia are organized by NUCOM, the computer...

Second Symposium on Adequate Music Representation Issue--Vancouver, Canada.(Announcements)
March 22, 2000... The Symposia on Adequate Music Representation Issues (SaMuReI) were initiated in 1998 to create a forum for exchanging, promoting, and further developing concepts and issues in digital music representation. While there is a focus on score-level...

Call for works: Open Electronic Festival in Groningen, The Netherlands.(Announcements)
March 22, 2000... The Open Electronic Festival is an annual multiple-day event focusing on electronic music and media art. The festival is organized by the Cyberslag Foundation, and takes place in the city of Groningen. The foundation, which is internationally...

Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI).(Announcements)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... The Secure Digital Music Initiative was established in 1998 by the corporate-sponsored Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) to protect music copyright on the World Wide Web. The SDMI brings together the worldwide recording industry...

Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival features Barry Truax.(Announcements)
March 22, 2000... Now in its ninth year, the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival will take place at the University of Florida, 6-8 April 2000, and will feature an international selection of contemporary electroacoustic art music. Papers, demonstrations, and...

Sixth international conference on auditory display.(Announcements)
March 22, 2000... The International Community for Auditory Display conference, ICAD 2000, will be held from 2-5 April 2000 at the Georgia Institute of Technology's Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology (GCATT) in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The...

Calls for new works.(Announcements)
March 22, 2000... Cellist Jeffrey Krieger is looking for new additions to electronic cello solo repertoire. Works with live electronics such as digital delay or interactive computer works utilizing Max software are of particular interest. Jeffrey Krieger can be...

Musica Viva festival.(News)
March 22, 2000... The fifth Musica Viva international festival of electroacoustic music was held in Lisbon, Portugal, 5-10 July 1999. Musica Viva 1999 was a unique initiative in offering electroacoustic music to a wider audience in Portugal. An intense program...

Sixth Brazilian symposium on computer music.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... This symposium, held 19-22 July, included papers, music, and lectures on topics at the cutting edge of computer music technology. The Brazilian symposia on computer music have consolidated the position of that country in the field. The...

Audio engineering society meetings.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... The 17th AES Conference, on high-quality audio coding, was held at the Villa Castelletti, Florence, Italy, 2-5 September 1999. Papers were presented under the headings of audio coding overview, audio coding for high-definition...

Music description, representation, and information retrieval: a workshop at King's College, London.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... This event, organized by Tim Crawford of King's College, London and Carola Boehm of the University of Glasgow, was held in association with the conference on Digital Resources in the Humanities on 16 September 1999. The workshop was...

Contemporary vocal music--Rome, 15-20 November 1999.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... This high-level course in computer music was an opportunity to bring together composers and musicians involved in the study and analysis of the scientific and aesthetic implications of the use of digital systems for musical composition and...

World premiere of George Antheil's Ballet mecanique.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... The world premiere of George Antheil's Ballet mecanique, in its 1924 instrumentation, was presented in the Concert Hall of the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, under the baton of Jeffrey Fischer, on Thursday, 18 November 1999, 75 years...

Modeling, music processing and audio effects--Trondheim, Norway.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... The second International Workshop on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx99, was scheduled for 9-11 December 1999 at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. The workshop title, Modeling, Music Processing and...

Sound in space symposium--Santa Barbara, California.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... A symposium on the spatialization of electronic music entitled "Sound in Space" was held at the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA, 18-19 March 2000. The art of sound spatialization has assumed prime importance for some...

Winners of the Luigi Russolo composition competition.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... The jury of the 21st Luigi Russolo International Competition sat in late September 1999 to consider entries from 13 countries of electronic music, with or without instruments or voice, from composers under the age of 35. The only first...

Winners of the third Sao Paulo international electroacoustic composition competition.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... On 30 October 1999, after the finalists' concert, the winners of the 1999 Concurso Internacional de Musica Eletroacustica de Sao Paulo (III CIMESP 1999) were announced. From 210 pieces, entered by 159 composers of 35 nationalities from 26...

Mimetic dynamics at the Ultima festival in Norway.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... The 1999 Ultima contemporary music festival, which ran from 1-10 October 1999 in Oslo, Norway, featured the sound and visual installation Mimetic Dynamics by Natasha Barrett and Oyvind Hammer. Mathematical models and fast computer graphics...

Danish composers celebrate the first Danish Iliad.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... Between October and December 1999, the publication of Professor Otto Steen Due's Danish translation of Homer's epic poem was celebrated by a reading of the entire work. The 24 songs of the Iliad were presented, one per day, Tuesday through...

Italian composers featured at the Stockholm electronic arts festival.(News)(Brief article)
March 22, 2000... The international Stockholm Electronic Arts (SEA) festival ran from 1-26 November 1999 and presented new video and film works, concerts and multimedia events such as the opening "party." It also explored relationships between the old and the...

An interview with Tristan Murail.(Interview)
March 22, 2000... Tristan Murail was born in Le Havre, France in 1947. Following university studies in economics, Arabic, and political science, he entered the composition class of Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris in...

Automatic synthesizer articulation.(Technical report)
March 22, 2000... Controlling Synthesis Current synthesizers can be very expressive instruments, whether they are analog synthesizers with multiple oscillators and filters that can shape a sound, sample-based synthesizers that use multidimensional...

Perceptually smooth timbral guides by state-space analysis of phase-vocoder parameters.(Technical report)
March 22, 2000... Sculptor is a phase-vocoder-based package of programs that allows users to explore timbral manipulation of sound in real time. It is the product of a research program seeking ultimately to perform gestural capture by analysis of the sound a...

Make me a match: an evaluation of different approaches to score--performance matching.(Technical report)
March 22, 2000... Background Composers of classical music traditionally create musical scores, which musicians translate into performances. A score specifies which notes should be played in what order, and gives information about tempo, loudness,...

EyesWeb: toward gesture and affect recognition in interactive dance and music systems.(Technical report)
March 22, 2000... The goal of the EyesWeb project is to develop a modular system for the real-time analysis of body movement and gesture. Such information can be used to control and generate sound, music, and visual media, and to control actuators (e.g.,...

Synthese '99.(29th Festival International des Musiques et Creations Electroniques, Bourges, France, 28 May to 6 June 1999)
March 22, 2000... Synthese '99 29th Festival International des Musiques et Creations Electroniques, 28 May to 6 June 1999, Bourges, France Presented each year in Bourges, France, by the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges...

Plug.In.(4th Annual Music Industry Forum, 19-20 July 1999, New York, New York USA)(Conference news)
March 22, 2000... Plug.In 4th Annual Music Industry Forum, New York, New York USA, 19-20 July 1999 The New Music Seminar was initiated in the early 1980s by three enthusiasts gathering in a lower Manhattan loft. Despite a healthy downtown performance...

Global Village--Global Brain--Global Music.(5th Annual KlangArt "New Music Technology" Congress, 10-13 June 1999, Osnabruck, Germany)(Conference news)
March 22, 2000... Global Village--Global Brain--Global Music 5th Annual KlangArt "New Music Technology" Congress, Osnabruck, Germany, 10-13 June 1999 When international musicians and scientists of different disciplines come together in Osnabruck to report...

Perry R. Cook, ed.: Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics.(Book review)
March 22, 2000... Perry R. Cook, ed.: Music, Cognition, and Computerized Sound: An Introduction to Psychoacoustics MIT Press, 1999, 372 pages, hardcover, sound examples on CD, illustrated, suggested problems and lab exercises, references, index, ISBN...

Marc Leman, ed.: Music, Gestalt, and Computing: Studies in Cognitive and Systematic Musicology.(Book review)
March 22, 2000... Marc Leman, ed.: Music, Gestalt, and Computing: Studies in Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Springer-Verlag, 1997, 524 pages, softcover, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence vol. 1317, recorded examples on CD, illustrated, index,...

Balint Andras Varga: Conversations with Iannis Xenakis.(Book review)
March 22, 2000... Balint Andras Varga: Conversations with Iannis Xenakis Faber and Faber, 1996, 255 pages, softcover, illustrated, notes, list of compositions, discography, bibliography, index, ISBN 0-571-17959-2; available from Faber and Faber, 3 Queen...

Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field, eds.: Melodic Similarity: Concepts, Procedures, and Applications.(Book review)
March 22, 2000... Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field, eds.: Melodic Similarity: Concepts, Procedures, and Applications The MIT Press, 1998, 244 pages, softcover, Computing in Musicolog vol. 11, illustrated, index, ISBN 0-262-58175-2; available...

Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction.(Book review)
March 22, 2000... Kodwo Eshun: More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction Quartet Books, 1998, 222 pages, softcover, bibiography, discography, acknowledgments, index, ISBN 0-7043-8025-0; available from Quartet Books, 27 Goodge St., London W1P...

FirstAvenue: Shreds of Evidence.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, O. O. Discs 0o50; available from O. O. Discs, Inc., 261 Groovers Ave., Black Rock, Connecticut 06605-3452, USA; telephone (203) 333-0603; electronic mail Cellioo5@aol.com; World Wide Web www.hear.com/o.o./ Shreds of...

Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. 1970-1973.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1999, Cuneiform Records, Rune 109; available from Wayside Music, P.O. Box 8427, Silver Spring, Maryland 20907, USA; telephone (301) 589-8894; fax (301) 589-1819; electronic mail cuneiway@aol.com; World Wide Web...

Watt ever.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, Tall Poppies 2-CD TP074; available from Tall Poppies, P.O. Box 373, Glebe, New South Wales 2037, Australia; electronic mail tallpoppies@moreinfo. com.au; World Wide Web www.moreinfo.com.au/tallpoppies Headed by Martin...

Allen Strange, Mickey Helms, Brian Belet, Michael Frengel, Dan Wyman, Doug Michael, Pablo Furman: Music from CREAM: Music for Players and Digital Media (CDMC Vol. 26).(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, Centaur CRC 2404; available from Centaur Records, Inc., 8867 Highland Rd., Suite 206, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA; telephone (225) 336-4877; fax (225) 336-9678; electronic mail info@centaurrecords.com; World Wide Web...

Gerard Pape: Electroacoustic Chamber Works.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, mode 67; available from Mode Records, P.O. Box 1026, New York, New York 10116, USA; telephone/fax (212) 979-1027; electronic mail mode@mode.com; World Wide Web www.mode.com Gerard Pape (current director of Les Ateliers...

Linda Ceff: Mistika.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, Move CD-MD3168; available from Move Records, P.O. Box 266, Carlton South, Victoria 3053, Australia Linda Ceff is a composer and pianist from Melbourne who works extensively with computer technology as well as performing...

Phil Winsor, Jon Christopher Nelson, Yu-Cheng Tseng, Michael Thompson, Joseph Klein, Thomas Clark, Larry Austin: CEMIsonics: The Threshold of Sound (CDMC Vol. 27).(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2000... Compact disc, 1998, Centaur CRC 2407; available from Centaur Records, Inc., 8867 Highland Rd., Suite 206, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808, USA; telephone (225) 336-4877; fax (225) 336-9678; electronic mail info@centaurrecords.com; World Wide Web...

Wendy Carlos: Clockwork Orange, Sonic Seasonings, Tales of Heaven and Hell.(Sound recording review)
March 22, 2000... Compact discs, 1998 (reissues), ESD 81362/81382/81352; available from East Side Digital, 530 North 3rd St., Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401, USA; telephone (612) 375-0233; fax (612) 375-9580; electronic mail esd@noside.com; World Wide Web...

Audio Amateur Publishing.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... Audio Amateur Corporation (AAC) is a niche publishing company in the field of audio electronics for build-it-yourself enthusiasts, audiophiles, and industry professionals. The company is a source for technical advice, new products, industry...

Midiman C03 digital signal converter.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... The CO3 (US$ 250) is an AES/EBU, S/PDIF, optical converter that features simultaneous conversion in all directions and a serial-copy manage ment system (SCMS). The unit converts between AES/EBU, S/PDIF coaxial, and TOSlink format (optical)...

MiniMusic NotePad for Palm organizer.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... The miniMusic NotePad software is a music notation and editing tool for the Palm Computing family of connected organizers. The software is said to extend the reach of composers and enable them to work productively anywhere they go. The...

ArtMatic for Mac OS.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... ArtMatic (US$ 79) by uisoftware, is an art synthesizer that makes it possible to create vibrant images (see Figure 1), psychedelic animations, and new sounds. ArtMatic combines fractal and fractal-like images, random textures, gradients, and...

Kurzweil K2600 synthesizer.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... The K2600 (see Figure 2), the latest instrument in the evolution of Kurzweil's VAST synthesizer/samplers, offers over 400 programs, 48 voices of polyphony, processing effects, and the VAST programmable synthesis architecture. Keyboard models...

Midisoft Worship Studio for windows.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... Midisoft Worship Studio is designed specifically for the church-music market. Midisoft's interface and technology distinguish Worship Studio in serving this market's specific needs. The product allows for unlimited MIDI tracks, eight...

MacPod.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... MacPod (see Figure 3) is a Mac OS program for the granulation of soundfiles. The program operates in real time, reading from the soundfiles and converting them into a number of separate grain streams. MacPod runs on any Power Macintosh...

SEKD Hammerfall 24-channel card.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... SEKD Hammerfall is a PCI-bus card for Windows 98 with ASIO software support. The card offers autosync clock control, 24 channels of ASIO 2, SPDIF/ADAT word clock in/out, and ADAT 9-pin sync input s/mux (96-kHz ADAT). Other features include 16-,...

Armadillo spectral analysis freeware for Mac OS.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... Armadillo (see Figure 4) is a musical sound analyzer that works either in real time using microphone, CDROM/DVD, or sound-file input. Sounds may be monaural or stereo. Five different displays are available: input waveform, amplitude versus...

IRCAM Atomic interface.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... AtoMIC is a performance-to-MIDI interface that allows a performer to convert the output from any type of sensor (gestural, infrared, pressure, voltage, temperature, etc.) to a MIDI message. AtoMIC contains 32 analog inputs, 8 digital inputs,...

Opcode Fermata music notation software for Mac OS.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... Opcode Systems has announced that Fermata, an entry-level Macintosh music-notation software program, is available on their World Wide Web site at www.opcode.com. According to the company, Fermata is ideal for educational environments. Key...

Mixman Studio Pro 3.0 DJ software for windows.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... Mixman Technologies, a provider of music tools and content for the World Wide Web, has announced the availability of version 3 of its virtual disc-jockey (DJ) software for the Windows platform. Mixman Studio Pro (US$ 90) is a virtual DJ...

Castillo Bueno CCMPlayer MP3 player for windows.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... Castillo Bueno Systems has released CCMPlayer, an MP3 player for Windows. CCMPlayer lets one quickly open, play, and listen to MP3 files. Multiple MP3 files can be loaded at once. Playlists (a group of MP3 files to be loaded together) are...

Cakewalk Guitar Studio 2, GrooveMaker, and Metre 5.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... akeWalk is offering Guitar Studio 2 (US$ 249), a recording and editing product that is designed specifically for guitarists. This version includes tablature, the most popular form of notation used by guitarists (see Figure 5). The program lets...

CreamWare Pulsar 24-bit, 96-kHz multichannel sound card for Mac OS and windows.(Products of Interest )
March 22, 2000... The CreamWare Pulsar audio card features 4 SHARC digital-signal-processing chips (DSPs), and provides a total of 20 inputs/outputs, including 2 ADAT ports, S/PDIF in/out, and stereo analog. The system comes with a large software suite that uses...

MSB Technology 24/96 converters.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... The Professional Analog to Digital Converter (PAD) records and converts analog sources to digital form. Each element of this US$ 800 unit is designed to enhance and support 24-bit, 96-kHz standards, as well as 44.1, 48, and 88.2 kHz signals....

CDCM new releases.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... The Consortium to Distribute Computer Music (CDCM) has announced three compact-disc releases. Volume 28 features the composer Larry Austin. The disc includes SoundPlays, Cityscapes, SoundPortraits (1993-1996); Variations... beyond Pierrot...

Media Wizard for windows.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... CDH Productions' Media Wizard 4 is a Windows application for playing and managing multimedia music and movie files. Media Wizard lets one listen to and view popular media formats including audio or video CD, MPEG audio (MP3 and MP2), Windows...

Rimage single-drive CD-R duplicating system and printer.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... Rimage Corporation offers a single-drive CD-recordable (CD-R) duplicating system. The Producer 2000 Amigo is a compact automated CD-recording and -labeling solution designed for users whose duplicating and publishing needs can be met with a...

CPS real-time programming environment for windows.(Products of Interest)
March 22, 2000... CPS is a real-time programming environment for audio, MIDI, and other media. Objects in CPS have a dynamic number of inputs and outputs. There are no rules for the sequence in which the control-rate signals flow. According to the developer, it...