Computer Music Journal articles from September 1999

Computer Music Journal archives from September 1999

Erratum.(Computer Music Journal 23(2))(Brief Article)(Correction Notice)
September 22, 1999... In Figures 2, 5, 6, 9, and 10 of "Phonograms, Elastic Couplings, and Trajectories" by Vincent Lesbros [CMJ 23(2)], the squares that should represent fixed nodes are missing. The caption for Figure 5 is wrong, because the large circles in these...

Products and Pirates.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... I was interested to read the announcement of the SoundMagic FX package for the Macintosh in Computer Music Journal 22(4) (Products of Interest: "SoundMaker Multiple Track Audio Editor for the Mac OS"). This product includes spectral blurring,...

26th International Computer Music Conference.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The 26th International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2000) will be held in Berlin, Germany, from 27 August-1 September 2000. The conference is hosted by the Berliner Kulturveranstaltungen GmbH, and will take place in Berlin's original...

Workshop on Digital Audio Effects.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The 1999 workshop on digital audio effects (DAFx99) is an international meeting of researchers specializing in theoretical and applied digital sound and music signal processing. This year, the conference is organized by the Department of...

DIDEROT 1999 Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Music.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Music (DIDEROT 1999) will take place in Vienna, Austria at Wien University from 2-4 December 1999. The aim of this conference is to bring together mathematicians working on subjects of...

Call for Electronic Works--NYU New Music and Dance Ensemble.(New York University)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The New York University New Music and Dance Ensemble is currently seeking new electronic music for upcoming performances. Directed by Esther Lamneck, the ensemble is recognized for the promotion and performance of a wide variety of music,...

Ars Electronica 1998 Prize Winners in Computer Music.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The winners of the 1998 award winners of the Prix Ars Electronica have been announced. In the field of computer music, artists Peter Bosch and Simone Simons were awarded the Golden Nica for their work Krachtgever (Power maker). In this work,...

Lifetime Achievement Award to Pauline Oliveros.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award of the Society for Electroacoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) was given to composer Pauline Oliveros. Pauline Oliveros's history as a new music pioneer dates to the early 1960s, when she became the...

Journees d'Informatique Musicale 1999.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Journees d'Informatique Musicale is an annual meeting of composers, researchers, and musicians who use computers as a means of artistic expression. The sixth annual edition of this meeting took place from 17-19 May 1999 at the French...

The Touch Symposium.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Sponsored by the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in the Netherlands, the Touch Symposium took place from 14-19 December 1998 at the Frascati Theater in Amsterdam. Reflecting the directives of STEIM, the event focused on the...

Audio Engineering Society's 16th International Conference on Spatial Sound Reproduction.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The 16th Audio Engineering Society conference was held in Rovaniemi, Finland from 10-12 April 1999. The focus of the conference was three-dimensional sound and multichannel reproduction, including developing technologies and test techniques....

Columbia University Hosts Interactive Arts Festival.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... From 6-9 April 1999, the Columbia Computer Music Center of Columbia University presented a festival of multimedia arts in which live performers interacted with computers in the real-time creation and manipulation of sounds and images. Many...

SEAMUS Conference 1999.(Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) presented its 1999 National Conference at San Jose State University, San Jose, California from 26-28 March 1999. The conference was hosted by the School of Music and Dance at...

Recent Research and Development at IRCAM.(Institut de Recherche ct Coordination Acoustique Musique)
September 22, 1999... Almost 30 years have elapsed since President Georges Pompidou proposed to Pierre Boulez the idea of creating a musical research institute that would be associated with the future Center for Contemporary Art in Paris, which later became the...

Nonlinear Dynamics in Physical Models: Simple Feedback-Loop Systems and Properties.
September 22, 1999... This work establishes a new approach to the functioning of musical instruments that is oriented toward sound synthesis by computer, and its application to musical creation and composition. In this work, we only consider musical instruments that...

Nonlinear Dynamics in Physical Models: From Basic Models to True Musical-Instrument Models.
September 22, 1999... The basis of the oscillatory behavior of many musical instruments with sustained sound is to be found in the coupling of a passive linear part with a nonlinearity (Elliot and Bowsher 1982; McIntyre, Schumacher, and Woodhouse 1983; Fletcher and...

jMax: An Environment for Real-Time Musical Applications.
September 22, 1999... The Max paradigm has been widely adopted in the field of real-time interaction in computer music. Many users appreciate its ease of use, which makes programming in an interactive-performance context possible at low learning and development...

Computer-Assisted Composition at IRCAM: From PatchWork to OpenMusic.(Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique)
September 22, 1999... Background In recent years, IRCAM has been exploring and developing software for computer-assisted composition (CAC). These software packages allow composers and musicologists to formalize and experiment with the structures and dynamics of...

Design and Architecture of Distributed Sound Processing and Database Systems for Web-Based Computer Music Applications.(Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique Musique )
September 22, 1999... Introduction This article discusses the design and architecture of distributed and World Wide Web-based computer music applications. The discussion is based on the experiences of the Studio On-Line project begun in 1995 at IRCAM, Institut...

Perspectives on the Contribution of Timbre to Musical Structure.
September 22, 1999... Timbre is a misleadingly simple word that encompasses not only a very complex set of auditory attributes, but also a plethora of important psychological and musical issues (Risset and Wessel 1999; McAdams 1993; Hajda, Kendall, Carterette, and...

Philippe Manoury: Jupiter.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Philippe Manoury; Jupiter Elizabeth McNutt, flute, and Miller Puckette, computer, Mandeville Recital Hall, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA, 26 January 1999 In a field that tends to emphasize the value...

IRCAM, les annees 90.(Review)
September 22, 1999... IRCAM, les annees 90 Compact discs (3-CD set), 1998, IRCAM 008, available from IRCAM, 1 Place Igor-Stravinsky, F-75004 Paris, France; telephone (+33-1) 44784843; fax (+33-1) 44781540; World Wide Web http:// www.ircam.fr/departements/...

Pierre Boulez: Repons, Dialogue de l'ombre double.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Pierre Boulez: Repons, Dialogue de l'ombre double Compact disc, 1998, Deutsche Grammophon 457 605-2 GH; available from Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft; World Wide Web http://www.dgclassics.com/ "Boulez est encore vivant!" (A...

Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui: Ivan Fedele.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui: Ivan Fedele Compact disc, 1998, Ades 206 572, available from IRCAM, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, F-75004 Paris, France; telephone (+33-1)44784843; fax (+33-1) 44781540; World Wide Web...

Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui: Magnus Lindberg.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui: Magnus Lindberg Compact disc, 1994, Ades 203 582; available from IRCAM, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, F-75004 Paris, France; telephone (+33-1) 44784843; fax (+33-1) 44781540; World Wide Web...

Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui: Philippe Manoury.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui: Philippe Manoury Compact disc, 1997, Ades 206 062; available from IRCAM, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, F-75004 Paris, France; telephone (+33-1) 44784843; fax (+33-1) 44781540; World Wide Web...

Philippe Manoury: Pluton.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Philippe Manoury: Pluton Compact disc, 1988, ODE 888-2; available from Ondine, Inc., Fredrikinkatu 77 A 2, FIN-00100 Helsinki, Finland; electronic mail ondine@ondine.fi Since his work Jupiter, for flute and computer (1987), composer...

Philippe Manoury: En echo, Neptune.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Philippe Manoury: En echo, Neptune Compact disc, 1998, Accord 206762 MU 750 (Musidisc); available from IRCAM, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, F-75004 Paris, France; telephone (+33-1) 44784843; fax (+33-1) 44781540; World Wide Web http://...

Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui: Tristan Murail.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Compositeurs d'aujourd'hui: Tristan Murail Compact disc, 1996, Ades 205 212; available from IRCAM, 1 Place Igor Stravinsky, F:-75004 Paris, France; telephone (+33-1) 44784843; fax (+33-1) 44781540; World Wide Web http://...

Kaija Saariaho: Private Gardens.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Kaija Saariaho: Private Gardens Compact disc, 1997, Ondine ODE 906-2; available from Electronic Music Foundation, 116 North Lake Ave., Albany, New York 12206, USA; World Wide Web http:// www.cdemusic.org/ During October 1998, I served...

Georgina Born: Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Georgina Born: Rationalizing Culture: IRCAM, Boulez, and the Institutionalization of the Musical Avant-Garde Paperback, 1995, ISBN 0-520-08507-8, 390 pages, $US 19.95, illustrated, bibliography, index; University of California Press,...

Products of Interest.
September 22, 1999... Sever Tipei CD: Raw Cuts A new compact disc features music by Sever Tipei. It includes the following selections from his oeuvre: Many Worlds, for five percussion players (1989); Curses, for solo male voice, backup group, and...