EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 55, Issue 18 This issue's topics: A Start to the Finnish [ouch!] emusic in Utrecht, the Netherlands 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: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:30:43 CDT From: Gregory Taylor Subject: A Start to the Finnish [ouch!] Kalev Tiits >how is it with the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, Netherlands, >these days? Seems pretty much alright to me. But it's not *in* Utrecht, and hasn't been for about 10 years or so. As a part of some of the perennial reoorganization of the Dutch system, Sonology moved to the Koninklijk Conservatorium in Den Haag, where it remains [although it has much nicer facilities since my days there in '89-90]. >- how interested the institute would be to offer training and >facilities for a foreign postgrad student? Hey, they let *me* in [at least for the one-year stint. I'm not certain about the 4-yr. program's requirements. We were there until my wife's Fulbright $$ ran out, so the year seemed appropriate]. As for degree programs and that sort of stuff, I'll not be much help. It was my impression that there was a reasonably broad age range, clustering toward the 20s-age range [I felt positively ancient in my mid-30s, but hey]. >- who would be the right person to turn to regarding admissions >(email and postal address?) you could try something like ....mcsun.eu.net!sun4nl!koncon!postmaster and see if you get lucky. >-as i am living on a low budjet (i got a family), the >tuition/participation costs are also a primary concern I cannot speak to your expectations as a European, but I found the tuition quite reasonable - about $1200/yr. US [this was '89]. Dirt cheap, by American standards. I'd suppose that some of the living expenses would depend on getting that all-important 'work stamp' on your verblijfsverguning [or laboring 'op de zwaart']. >-are there some other noteworthy institutions in Utrecht or somewhere >close to it that i should be aware of? if so, the the above questions >apply to those too. There was a brief Muziektechnologie program at the Hogeschool voor de Kunst in Utrecht which got trashed bigtime and thrown to the 4 winds. STEIM is looking perky these days under the somewhat newer management of Nicholas Collins STEIM's on the Achtergracht in Amsterdam, though. The CEM studios in Arnhem is rumored to be closed down. Leigh Landy is still in Amsterdam and has studios through the Vrije Universiteit, I think. Given the options, I'd go with Sonology, regardless of my bias towards them. Gregory ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1993 12:10:06 +0200 From: Kalev Tiits Subject: emusic in Utrecht, the Netherlands hello, world. how is it with the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, Netherlands, these days? i am a postgraduate student in Univ of Helsinki, Finland and focusing on computer-assisted music research, also emusic composition, improvisation with live electronics and general live electronics performances is close to my heart, i have taken part of a number of such events in Helsinki. now it seems i might be spending some time (possibly a couple of years) in Utrecht and naturally would like to exploit the facilities offered by the local institutes to the maximum if possible. my own research project has been on score analysis using parallel distributed systems, more specifically i've been working with Kohonen self-organizing feature maps. i am reasonably good C programmer with a little experience on Objective C on NeXT platforms, not really into low-level systems programming. I have a pretty good record of publications, for instance a participation in a joint article in the book Music and Connectionism published by MIT a couple of years ago, some other international publications as well as a few domestic ones. I also currently do a bit of teaching in Univ of Helsinki, elementary studio courses etc. well i dont want to write my life story here, my basic question is, whether and how i could engage with emusic activities and research institutes as i make it to Utrecht. (if this will become true, i'd get there by (approx.) January -94.) i would definetely wish to have an access to internet, and would love to have access to emusic studio as well. if there would be NeXT machines available that would be a dream come true, as i have got quite used to those. as you dutch colleagues will read this, perhaps someone would be so kind as to tell me, what is the status of the Institute of Sonology regarding to my case: - how interested the institute would be to offer training and facilities for a foreign postgrad student? - who would be the right person to turn to regarding admissions (email and postal address?) -as i am living on a low budjet (i got a family), the tuition/participation costs are also a primary concern -are there some other noteworthy institutions in Utrecht or somewhere close to it that i should be aware of? if so, the the above questions apply to those too. thanks a million in advance, Kalev Tiits email kalev@elisir.helsinki.fi postal address: Dept of Musicology University of Helsinki Vironkatu 1, 00170 HELSINKI FINLAND ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1993 09:55:04 CDT From: Gregory Taylor Subject: Sonology address I just found the address of the Sonology folks for our Finnish colleague - phone number and all.... Koninklijk Conservatorium Juliana v. Stolberglaan 1 2595 CA Den Haag The Netherlands tel: 070-81-4251 _ The leveling weight of music and weather/closes the stores, drives the people underground/into cool rooms under ducts and water pipes./There are ways to prove the logic of whatever happens./In a movie, the darkness between each frame proves it./Gregory Taylor/Heurikon Corporation/Madison, WI/608-828-3385 ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************