EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 49, Issue 06 This issue's topics: 8th Barber Festival of Contemporary Music (2 messages) Automatic daily digests available Changes in the Wind Corporate Confusions (2 messages) GET PUBLISHED Retinaburn Premiere Small project in Uruguay Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . You may subscribe to EMUSIC-L by sending mail to listserv@american.edu with the line "SUB EMUSIC-L your name" as the text. The EMUSIC-L archive is a service of SunSite (sunsite.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1993 16:03:00 LCL From: DOWRJ@VAX1.COMPUTER-CENTRE.BIRMINGHAM.AC.UK Subject: 8th Barber Festival of Contemporary Music The Eighth Barber Festival of Contemporary Music ================================================ 23rd - 28th February 1993 The Barber Institute of Fine Arts ========================= Birmingham Tuesday 23rd February, 7.30pm Barber Concert Hall --------------------------------------------------- 'Aspen' present dance and instrumental works with tape. Wednesday 24th February, 7.30pm Barber Concert Hall ---------------------------------------------------- Varese: Hyperprism, Octandre and Integrales with the University New Music Ensemble, 'Voices' and BEAST. Thursday 25th February, 1.10pm Great Hall ----------------------------------------- Music for organ and percussion: Messiaen and Petr Eben performed by Ian Hockley and Steve Muir. Thursday 25th February, 7.30pm Barber Concert Hall -------------------------------------------------- Cage: Sonates and Interludes. John Tilbury prepared piano. Friday 26th February, 1.10pm Barber Concert Hall ------------------------------------------------ The University New Music Ensemble, 'Voices' and BEAST present recent works from the University of Birmingham. Friday 26th February, 7.30pm Barber Concert Hall ------------------------------------------------ The Kalvierduo Rainer Buerck - Robert Ruehle will play music for two pianos and electronics. Saturday 27th February, 7.30pm Barber Concert Hall -------------------------------------------------- Stockhausen: Mantra - The Klavierduo Rainer Buerck - Robert Ruehle Sunday 28th February, 7.30pm Barber Concert Hall ------------------------------------------------ The University New Music Ensemble, 'Voices' and BEAST present a concert of new works, including Two Movements from 'Crystal Eunuch' - 'Poot' and 'Zob' by Dan Rodger, Adrian Moore's 'Movement' and Robert Dow's 'Le Lethe' for flute and tape. Advance tickets 5 pounds (3 pounds concessions) [special season ticket rates available] ** ALL TICKETS 1 POUND ON THE DOOR ** For further details telephone 021-414 5781 or contact: The Barber Festival of Contemporary music The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Music, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT For more information about BEAST and BEAST events contact: BEAST The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Department of Music, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT Telephone 021 - 414 5786 Fax 021 - 414 5781 E-Mail BEAST@uk.ac.bham (JANET) To be included on the BEAST e-mailing list contact DOWRJ@uk.ac.bham.vax1 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 19:49:00 LCL From: Achim Haag Subject: Re: 8th Barber Festival of Contemporary Music did you read this? The Birmingham Electro Acoustic Sound Theater performs (among others) works by Varese, Stockhausen, Cage... - and they only do it in Birmingham| One week with some of the best pieces of music ever heard on this planet, performed by one of this planet's best performers - and they only do it in Birmingham| That's no pity. That's no shame. It's simply a scandal. If you ever had the luck to be able to listen to BEAST live, you don't want to miss any of their performances. YES| Once they have been in on tour (even in *Germany*|) but that's a long time ago. So if you got the money and if you got the time (seems to me like I even haven't heard the *words* for quite a long time...), then get yourself into a plane and to Birmingham. To put some music in your ear that's worth it. See you at the BEAST... ====================================================================== = ACHIM HAAG = = bitnet : uj69@dkauni2 = = internet: uj69@ibm3090.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de = = x.400 : S=uj69; OU=ibm3090; OU=rz; P=uni-karlsruhe; A=dbp; C=de = ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 09:58:15 -0500 From: "Joseph D. McMahon" Subject: Automatic daily digests available If you find the traffic from EMUSIC-L to be too much, we now have an option to have LISTSERV automatically collect up the messages from the day, sort them, and format them into a digest. It gets mailed to you after midnight each day. I've been using it on a secondary ID for the past couple days and I find it quite nice. If you'd like to try this option, send a mail message to listserv@auvm.american.edu with the body of the message being SET EMUSIC-L DIGEST and send it off. You will be converted over to the daily digest immediately. --- Joe M. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 09:11:44 EST From: Jon Crystal Subject: Changes in the Wind Of interest: Next Computer Co. has been sold to Canon, and Steve Jobs is now focusing on porting NextStep Operating system to other platforms, w/PC486 at the top of the list. E-Mu has been sold to the Singapore based company which also owns Sound Blaster Apple has announced a fix for the midi problems on the VX ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 08:31:53 EST From: Jon Crystal Subject: Corporate Confusions Came across several interesting/bizarre corporate changes of interest to this l ist: Next Computer Co. has just been sold to Canon; Steve Jobs will be marketing Nex tStep operating systems for other platforms, and is about to release one for 48 6 machines E-Mu has been sold to some Singapore based co. which also owns Sound Blaster; also, Apple apparently has a fix for the Midi problems on the VX which is now available ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1993 11:09:34 -0500 From: "Casimir J. Palowitch" Subject: Re: Corporate Confusions On Fri, 19 Feb 1993, Jon Crystal wrote: > Came across several interesting/bizarre corporate changes of interest to > this list: > > NeXt Computer Co. has just been sold to Canon; Steve Jobs will be marketing > NeXtStep operating systems for other platforms, and is about to release one > for 486 machines. This is incorrect. NeXT has *not* been sold. The following is the AP news story, reprinted here w/o permission: >From pitt.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!caen!uvaarpa!murdoch!usenet Tue Feb 9 16:07:33 EST 1993 Article: 4327 of comp.sys.next.advocacy Path: pitt.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!caen!uvaarpa!murdoch!usenet From: stelios@chios.dorm.Virginia.EDU (Stelios Makrinos) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy Subject: AP News Report Message-ID: <1993Feb9.180535.18275@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Date: 9 Feb 93 18:05:35 GMT Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Reply-To: stelios@Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia Lines: 69 This was emailed to me by a friend today: ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From apnews Tue Feb 9 09:23:54 EST 1993 Message-Type: apnews Content-Length: 3786 X-Lines: 74 Next-Hardware,0535< ^Job's Workstation Company Getting Out of Hardware, Will Focus On Software< SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Steve Jobs' Next Computer Inc., after several years of lukewarm response to its workstations, will stop making hardware and focus on its highly acclaimed software, according to a report published today. The company is negotiating to sell its hardware business to Canon Inc., the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Canon, which has invested $165 million in Next, owns 17.9 percent of the company and sells Next machines in Japan. As a result of the sale, Next will lay off about 300 of its 540 employees, the Chronicle said. The move comes less than a month after privately-held Next announced that it achieved its first quarterly operating profit. Sales grew to $140 million last year from $127 million in 1991. The company, based in Redwood City, Calif., has said that it wants to go public. Analysts, however, said that given the latest developments, an initial public offering appears to be at least 18 months away. Jobs, who co-founded Apple Computer Inc. and started Next in 1985, was unavailable for comment, and a Next spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny the company's plans, the Chronicle said. But sources close to Next said that Jobs will announce the move formally next Tuesday, the newspaper said. Canon would not comment yesterday. Another investor is former presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, who invested $20 million and holds 11 percent of Next. Perot was unavailable for comment yesterday, the Chronicle said. Jobs, who reportedly invested $200 million in Next, holds 46 percent of the company. Next got off to a rocky start with its workstations, introduced in October 1988. Industry analysts called the sleek black machines underpowered and overpriced. The company later introduced faster and less expensive models. But the machines still are more costly than competitors' models and are not compatible with personal computers or workstations from such companies as Apple, IBM and Sun Microsystems. Next shipped an estimated 69,300 workstations last year _ compared with 217,000 by market leader Sun Microsystems _ according to International Data Corp., a market research concern in Framingham, Mass. But Next has been praised for its built-in NextStep software, considered technically superior to other programs on the market. With NextStep, makers of applications software _ programs that perform specific tasks like word processing _ can produce programs in less time than for other workstations or PCs. Many Next customers have bought the company's hardware because they want to take advantage of the company's software, which can be operated only on Next machines. The company has tried to use the strength of NextStep to sell its machines to companies that want to develop custom programs. Next, however, also has been working on software that will work on IBM-compatible personal computers. The company is expected to finish work on the program, NextStep 486, this summer, nearly a year after Jobs first promised it would be done. The company also is trying to negotiate an arrangement with Hewlett-Packard Co. in which it would modify NextStep to work with HP's workstations, the Chronicle said. ________________________________________________________________________ ** Casimir J. (Casey) Palowitch - In 1996, there will be two kinds ** ** Slavic Cataloger - of computer professional : those ** ** U. of Pgh. Library Systems - who know NeXTStep, and those ** ** cjp+@pitt.edu - without Jobs. ** ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 10:38:02 -0700 From: FOX ADAM RANDALL Subject: GET PUBLISHED You are invited to submit original undergraduate writing to the JOURNAL OF UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH a forum for undergraduate writing concerning liberal arts. The Journal's purpose is to allow ideas to be communicated to a large audience and to provide students with the opportunity to be recognized for superior academic achievement. To reach these goals, all submissions must be clearly written and deal with subjects that require little technical knowledge. Chosen submissions will be published in an electronic archive (ftp zone), where they may be read by anyone who can gain access to a computer, modem, and telephone jack. This facility will increase the availability of quality undergraduate research and allow one's work to be read by thousands. All interested undergraduates should submit one page, via email, containing the following information: 1) name 2) class standing (FR, SO, JR, SR, SR5) 3) school's name 4) paper's subject 5) summary of paper 6) total page number (between 5 and 15 single spaced) The summary is the most important element at this stage. It will be used to determine whether the full paper is appropriate for the Journal. 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Adam Fox Managing Editor University of Colorado ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1993 20:16:58 GMT From: Linda M McInnis Subject: Retinaburn Premiere Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA -------------------------------------- Date: 2/24/93 1:56 PM From: Frank Coleman Hi folks: I just got confirmation that my film, RETINABURN will be having it's official Boston premiere on Thursday, March 18th at the Europa Club, 51 Stuart Street, near the Wang Center in downtown Boston. Doors open at 9:30, events start at 10, DJs start spinning at 11 and RETINABURN goes on at 1am. For those of you who don't know: % RETINABURN is an hour-long silent fractal animation video, designed as the first interactive film for nightclubs. % It's also an attempt to answer one of the central questions posed by the notion of interactivity in art. At what point does the artist relinquish control, yet retain enough that the piece has their recognizable authorial mark? % By allowing the audience or DJ to select the music, they get to be a 50% partner in the creation of the artistic experience. % This also means that every performance is one-time-only in the spirit of John Cage's chance operations. % And yes, all the animation was done by yours truly. Spinning tunes will by WZBC DJ par excellence Andrew Wolf. WZBC is Boston College's radio station and the possibly most radical avant-garde station in New England. Their motto is "no commercial potential." It should be a riot. We've gotten great press so far in Option, Boston Rock (thanks to Linda) and an L.A. magazine called URB. I know it's a late hour, but you know how irrepressible those youngsters are... Hope you can make it, FBC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1993 15:03:28 CST From: Brian Quinby Subject: Small project in Uruguay I reveived the following message and thought it would be nice if these kids received a lot of postcards. =================================================================== Dear friends and colleagues, I recently talked with 2 kids, Carolina 9 and Florencio 11, in Montevideo and we came to the idea that they would be delighted to build a small project in their classroom. I agreed that I would ask friends and colleagues around the world to mail Carolina and Florencio a postcard from the area where they live. They will pinpoint the origin of postcards on a map of the world and talk with their teachers about countries and places. So would you find 5 minutes and a few cents/pesos/schillings etc. and mail a postcard (preferably in an envelope, mail is not really perfect in Uruguay) to Carolina and Florencio? This would make 2 kids and their classrooms happy and help them know the world a little better. If you wish to write a few words, they speak Spanish, some French and they can be helped with English. Their address: Carolina y Florencio Ares Pavan Villa de Masnou 4793 11500 Montevideo, Uruguay Thanks. Forgive me for using some bandwidth for this. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 08:02:16 EST From: "Sean F. Jepson" Subject: Tape Submission! A list of submitted material will be compiled as soon as they are received. This list will be available by ftp at the castrovalva.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.33.197) site. The information can be found in the music-archive folder. Please get submissions in soon. Yes, you may submit one song or as many as you like. DATE : 2/3/93 EMUSIC COMPOSITION ARCHIVE SUBMISSION AND REQUEST INSTRUCTIONS SUBMISSION: 1) Please send 90 minute Metal or CrO2 cassette with the submission on it. If you would like to send a DAT tape for a possible future requested compilation CD'that's fine too, but please send a standard cassette tape for reproduction requests from the network. CD's will also be accepted and requests filled if the artist wants to submit them. 2) Make sure that you enclose the proper information requested below (see attached form) with the cassette. Also e-mail sjepson@ers.bitnet a completed form so he will expect the cassette and can update the electronic archive. (Archive address to be disclosed later.) 3) Mail to the following address. Sean Jepson 3103 Ellenwood Dr. Fairfax, VA 22031 4) If you are requesting a compilation along with your submission please include the following outlined in the REQUESTS section. 5) As many submissions as the artist wants to submit will be accepted. Make sure there is a seperate submission form for each 90 minute tape submitted. REQUESTS: 1) To receive a compilation please send a request form along with blank tape, self addressed STAMPED envelope, and $1.00 handling for each 90 minute tape sent. No more than two seperate compilations requested per tape please. ****If one the above is missing the request will not be filled.**** 2) On the request form just fill out the lines with asterisks. 3) Mail to the following address. Sean Jepson 3103 Ellenwood Dr. Fairfax, VA 22031 4) PLEASE, NO requests through E-MAIL!!!!!!!!! Only by snail mail. RULES OF AGREEMENT: The Archivist will not be responsible for other peoples misuse and abuse of submitted/requested songs. If you are worried because your composition has not been copyrighted please don't send it. *** Please e-mail the following form to sjepson@ERS.BITNET as well as including the same information with cassette. The asterisk information must be filled out or the submission/request will be void. ----------------------------------CUT HERE------------------------------------ EMUSIC COMPOSITION ARCHIVE SUBMISSION/REQUEST FORM REQUEST OR SUBMISSION: _________________ * Artist's/Band's Name: __________________ * Title of Composition: __________________ * Program Length: ________________________ * Song Titles: SIDE 1 SIDE2 * ____________________________ ____________________________ Date of Submission: ____________________ * E-Mail address: ________________________ * Contact Address: _______________________ _______________________ Music Style: ____________________________ Instrument & Performer List: ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ Recording Details/Tricks: ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ Other Titles Available For Purchasing From Artist: ____________________________ ____________________________ ____________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean Jepson ---------------------------------------------------------- USDA, Economic Research Service ------------------------------------ SJEPSON@ERS.BITNET --------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************