Computer Music Journal articles from September 2000

Computer Music Journal archives from September 2000

Erratum.(Correction Notice)
September 22, 2000... The jacket and program notes for the 1999 compact disc (included with CMJ 23:4) do not identify which selections are excerpts. All are excerpts except tracks 1 (by J. Antunes), 9 (by A. Russek), and 14 (by R. Dal Farra).

Sound & Fury by Agostino Di Scipio Premiered in Portugal.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The complete cycle of Agostino Di Scipio's Sound & Fury was premiered in Evora, Portugal, at the ORKESTRA festival of music-theatre on 20 January 2000. The libretto of Sound & Fury is based on fragments from Shakespeare's The Tempest, from...

"Cinema for the Ear" in Aarhus, Denmark.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The 2000 season in the concert series "Cinema for the Ear", presented by the Danish Institute of Electroacoustic Music and the Aarhus Contemporary Music Society, took place in January and February at the underground cinema "East of Paradise"...

BEAST Presents "Aural Kinetics".(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The Birmingham Electroacoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST) presented a weekend festival "Aural Kinetics: New Fusions of Sound, Space, and Movement" in Birmingham, England in February 2000. The festival combined several themes, juxtaposing...

Sonic Arts Network National Conference.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Sonic Arts Network held its third annual conference at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 11-13 February 2000. The conference was a members event and maintained its open submission policy which resulted in a very full,...

Workshop on Acoustic Ecology in Vancouver.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The Institute for Hearing Accessibility Research (IHEAR) and the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia, hosted a workshop on acoustic ecology in Vancouver, Canada, 12-15 February 2000. The title of the...

Spring in Havana 2000.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The eighth international festival of electroacoustic music "Spring in Havana" took place 5-11 March 2000, celebrating the 80th birthday of Juan Blanco, Cuban pioneer of electroacoustic music, and the 20th anniversary of the Cuban National...

"Rien a voir" in Montreal.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The seventh "Rien a voir" festival took place in Montreal, Canada, 8-11 March 2000 and featured four guest composers across the four days. Each composer presented and diffused a concert of works of his or her choice under the title of "Carte...

SEAMUS AcousmaTex Conference.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The Society for ElectroAcoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) held its 2000 National Conference at the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI), at the University of North Texas, Denton, USA, 9-11 March 2000 under the title...

Women and Music Technology Workshop.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The College Music Society (CMS) Committee on Music, Women, and Gender organized the first CMS workshop on Women and Music Technology at Agnes Scott College, Atlanta-Decatur, Georgia, USA, 16-19 March 2000. Co-chairs Judith Coe and Calvert...

Festival of Music by Larry Austin.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... On 20-21 March 2000, the Department of Composition at the Conservatory of Music, State University of New York-Purchase College, presented a festival of music of the American composer Larry Austin, comprising a lecture and two concerts. ...

ICAD 2000, Georgia Institute of Technology.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The 2000 International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) was held 2-5 April 2000 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Hosted at the Georgia Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology, ICAD 2000 was an...

Artificial Intelligence and Music.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... A workshop entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Music: Towards Formal Models for Composition, Performance, and Analysis" was scheduled to be held in the context of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2000) in...

Composing with Objects, Networks, and Time Scales: An Interview with Horacio Vaggione.(Interview)
September 22, 2000... In the context of electroacoustic and computer music, Horacio Vaggione (see Figure 1) has emerged as one of the most original composers working today. Characterized by an unrelenting flow of energy, the textures of his music often display...

Generating Musical Performances with Director Musices.
September 22, 2000... Director Musices is a program that transforms notated scores into musical performances. It implements the performance rules emerging from research projects at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). Rules in the program model performance...

The PRIE MIDI Environment.
September 22, 2000... Commenting on Anton Webern's music, Pierre Schaeffer addressed the concept of a musical expression that is highly organized but at the same time capable (by means of timbre and textural variations) of hiding or showing part of its internal...

Doctor Webern: A Visual Environment for Computer-Assisted Composition Based on Linear Thematism.
September 22, 2000... For several centuries, imitation has supplied the locomotive force of counterpoint. Composers of different cultures, schools, and styles have constructed musical forms on the basis of relatively short themes passed among different voices with...

The Internet, A Musical Instrument in Perpetual Flux.
September 22, 2000... When humans listen to one person speaking, read one page of print, much of what humans think they see or hear is supplied from personal memory. --W. James, 1880 When humans think seriously they think abstractly. They conjure up...

Gen: A Lisp Music Environment.
September 22, 2000... Gen is a MIDI Lisp environment, running under Windows, for music composition and real-time processing of input MIDI streams. It was inspired by the Lisp musical software line represented by environments such as Common Music (Taube 1991). Gen...

Molecular Music: The Acoustic Conversion of Molecular Vibrational Spectra.
September 22, 2000... Using extramusical measurements as a basis for musical composition, while not a common practice, is certainly not new. An example dating back to 1436 is Guillaume Dufay's musical conversion of the dimensions of a Florence cathedral in his...

NAMM 2000, International Music Market.
September 22, 2000... NAMM 2000, International Music Market International Music Products Association, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, 3-6 February 2000 What follows is a quick snapshot of some items that caught my attention at...

Fourth Annual Mathematical Diderot Forum: Mathematics and Music.
September 22, 2000... Fourth Annual Mathematical Diderot Forum: Mathematics and Music Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris, France, 3-4 December 1999 The cycle of Diderot Mathematical Forums, held under the authority of...

Martin Russ: Sound Synthesis and Sampling.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Martin Russ: Sound Synthesis and Sampling Softcover, 1996; ISBN 0-240-51429-7; 400 pages; illustrated, time lines, review questions, glossary, index; Focal Press/Butterworth-Heinemann, Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK;...

Marc Treib: Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Marc Treib: Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Pavilion, Le Corbusier, Edgard Varese Hardcover, 1996; ISBN 0-691-02137-6; 282 pages; illustrated, notes, bibliography, index; Princeton University Press, 41 William St., Princeton,...

Howard W. Ferstler: The Digital Audio Music List: A Critical Guide to Listening.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Howard W. Ferstler: The Digital Audio Music List: A Critical Guide to Listening Softcover, 1999; ISBN 0-89579-438-1; 463 pages; illustrated, glossary, bibliography, name index, subject index; A-R Editions, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin...

Jennifer A. Lennon: Hypermedia Systems and Applications: World Wide Web and Beyond.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jennifer A. Lennon: Hypermedia Systems and Applications: World Wide Web and Beyond Softcover, 1997; ISBN 3-540-62697-2; 297 pages; illustrated, bibliography, index; Springer-Verlag, Tiergartenstrasse 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, Germany;...

Martin Supper: Elektroakustische Musik und Computermusik: Geschichte, Asthetik, Methoden, Systeme.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Martin Supper: Elektroakustische Musik und Computermusik: Geschichte, Asthetik, Methoden, Systeme Softcover, 1997; ISBN 3-923-99777-9; 208 pages; illustrated, notes, glossary, bibliography, subject index, name index; Wolke Verlag,...

Charles Madden: Fractals in Music: Introductory Mathematics for Musical Analysis.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Charles Madden: Fractals in Music: Introductory Mathematics for Musical Analysis Hardcover, 1999; ISBN 0-9671727-56; 210 pages; illustrated, bibliography, index; High Art Press, P.O. Box 58661, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158-0661, USA ...

Jorge Antunes: Musica Eletronica 70's I; Musica Eletronica 70's II; Musica Eletronica 90's I.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jorge Antunes: Musica Eletronica 70's I; Musica Eletronica 70's II; Musica Eletronica 90's I Compact discs CD ST 001 (1994), CD ST 002 (n.d.), CD ST 004 (1998); available from Sistrum Edicoes Musicais Ltda., Caixa Postal 04580, 70919-970...

Mary Lee Roberts: Six Compositions.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Mary Lee Roberts: Six Compositions Compact disc Open Space 9, 1997; available from Open Space, R.D. 2, Box 45E, Red Hook, New York 12571, USA; fax (914) 758-6740; electronic mail postmaster@the-open-space.org; World Wide Web...

Jon Welstead and Yehuda Yannay: The Ghost in the Machine.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Jon Welstead and Yehuda Yannay: The Ghost in the Machine Compact disc EMF CD 004, 1997; available from Electronic Music Foundation, 116 North Lake Ave., Albany, New York 12206, USA; telephone (518)434-4110; fax (518) 434-0308; electronic...

Ned Bouhalassa: Aerosol.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Ned Bouhalassa: Aerosol Compact disc empreintes DIGITALes IMED 9840, 1998; available from DIFFUSION i MeDIA, 4850 avenue de Lorimier, Montreal, Quebec H2H 2B5, Canada; telephone (514) 526-4096; fax (514) 526-4487; electronic mail...

Michael Kallstrom: Stories.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Michael Kallstrom: Stories Compact disc CPS-8655, 1998; available from Capstone Records, 252 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11205, USA The introduction to Stories on the back of the CD cover says: "A chamber opera for solo performer...

Mnemonists: Horde.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Mnemonists: Horde Compact disc ReR MO1, 1998 (reissue from 1984); available from ReR, 79 Beulah Rd., Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8JG, UK; fax (+44-181) 771-3138; electronic mail megacorp@dial.pipex.com; World Wide Web...

John Oliver: Icicle Blue Avalanche.(Review)
September 22, 2000... John Oliver: Icicle Blue Avalanche Compact disc earsay es-98004, 1998; available from Earsay Productions, 308-720 Sixth St., New Westminster, British Columbia V3L 3C5, Canada; telephone (604) 527-2358; fax (604) 524-9356; electronic mail...

MUSIC/TEXT.(Review)
September 22, 2000... James Dashow, Thomas DeLio, Wesley Fuller, and Shirish Korde: MUSIC/TEXT Compact disc CPS-8669, 1999; available from Capstone Records, 252 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, New York 11205, USA MUSIC/TEXT, a recent release by Capstone Records,...

Swiss Center for Computer Music.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Gary Berger, Michael Horowitz, Simon Jaunin, Martin Neukom, Kit Powell, Nicolas Sordet, Bruno Spoerri, and Harold Vasquez: Swiss Center for Computer Music Compact disc stv/asm 004, 1999; available from Schweiz. Tonkunstlerverein,...

Products of Interest.
September 22, 2000... Max News Cycling '74 has announced that it has taken over from Opcode as developer and publisher of Max. Max, a graphical music programming environment primarily for MIDI applications, has become a central component of interactive...