EMUSIC-L Digest Volume 70, Issue 06 This issue's topics: Announcements Midi files/software archives on the Internet Computer Music bibliography Mr. Fourier contest hybrid avantgarde from NYC and Germany Mr. Fourier semifinals (2 messages) Computer Music Conference SEAMUS 10th Anniversary Concerts The Contemporary Music Documentation Center - info on WWW (2 messages) Computer Music Conference SEAMUS CCRMA Concert Conference report on "Technology and the Composer" - prelude "Technology and the Composer" - lectures/panels I call for entries Fourth Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival dc emusic recital ELECTROdeCONcdRELEASE (3 messages) SEAMUS list stats - off-topic, but rather interesting Your EMUSIC-L Digest moderator is Joe McMahon . Please send articles to emusic-l@american.edu. Administrative mail should be directed to the editor at the address above. 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: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 09:07:06 +0100 From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Midi files/software archives on the Internet There is a list of ftp and mail server archives with MIDI documentation, programs and music on the Internet. Also enclosed is a list of MIDI and electronic music related mailing lists. The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/archives or by mail from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used. The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers archives around the world, in music/midi/archives. Version: $Id: archives,v 1.96 1994/10/14 13:30:37 piet Exp $ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 09:07:07 +0100 From: Piet van Oostrum Subject: Computer Music bibliography There is a bibliography on synthesizers, midi, computer and electronic music that I have collected from various sources. I have tried to bring some structure into it, but not all books will fit into a single subject. NOTE: I haven't read these books, and the comments are from other people. The latest version of this file can be obtained by ftp from ftp.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.17] in pub/MIDI/DOC/bibliography or by mail from mail-server@cs.ruu.nl (send a message with HELP in the body). From the mail-server the filename without pub/ should be used. The latest monthly version is also available in the various news.answers archives around the world, in music/midi/bibliography. Version: $Id: bibliography,v 1.25 1994/09/08 12:24:00 piet Exp $ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 04:24:42 -0700 From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" Subject: Re: Mr. Fourier contest > What is the fastest Fast Fourier Transform algorithm that you know? > Please send a mail with your plain C code and you'll enter in the competition. > PLEASE NOTE that you will win nothing but the good feel of helping someone > (me!) in doing its spectrum job faster. You will also win the proud of being > the "Fastest Fourier Transformer" of the list! Haven't gotten into that yet. But could probably use it someday... Could you please make the faster ones available when you get all these collected? On an ftp site, or send them to the list, or something. -- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 15:00:52 +0100 From: Wolfgang von Stuermer Subject: hybrid avantgarde from NYC and Germany BERLIN NOVEMBER 1st 1994 F O R I M M E D I A T E R E L E A S E A N D F R E E W O R L D W I D E D I S T R I B U T I O N __________________________________________ The Neue Komponisten Gesellschaft e.V., Germany with the assistance of NoHarmDone entertainment is announcing: DDDD II Y Y D D II Y Y D D II Y Y D D II Y D D II Y DDDD II Y D.I.Y. - D o I t Y o u r s e l f hybrid avantgarde from new york & germany T O U R NOVEMBER 23 - DECEMBER 7, 1994 featuring: Teodoro Anzellotti (Freiburg, Germany) - Accordion Ken Butler (New York) - Hybrid Instruments/Voice Anthony Coleman (New York) - Composition/Sampler and Michel Ackermann (Freiburg, Germany) - Composition/Keyboards Dietrich Eichmann (Bruxelles/Berlin) - Composition/Improvisation Christoph Grund (Bremen, Germany) - Composition/Performance Wolfgang von Stuermer (NYC/Berlin) - Composition/MAX/Electronics C U R R E N T T O U R S C H E D U L E: 23.11.1994 BREMEN (FRG) - RADIO STUDIO GALERIE K RABUS 20:00 24.11.1994 KARLSRUHE (FRG) - TOLLHAUS KULTURZENTRUM 20:00 27.11.1994 FRANKFURT a.M. (FRG) - 7.07. UNI THEATERSAAL 20:00 01.12.1994 FREIBURG i.Br. (FRG) - SWF RADIO STUDIO SCHLOSSBERGSAAL 20:00 04.12.1994 EINDHOVEN (NL) - HET APOLLOHUIS 15:40 05.12.1994 BERLIN (FRG) - workshop @ Podewil 15-18:00 06.12.1994 BERLIN (FRG) - workshop @ Podewil 15-18:00 07.12.1994 BERLIN (FRG) - PODEWIL 20:00 T H E P R O J E C T ' S P H I L O S O P H Y D.I.Y. combines seven unique artistic personalities from very different backgrounds, working strategies and concepts. It gains its creative potential from the triangular identity of the composer-performer-musician. In a situation of exchange and mutual st imulation compositions and concepts are acquired through the meeting of the participants of the project on location. We take the often disussed "cultural exchange" into our own hands and - do it yourself - take it as the artistic program. The result is a hybrid, multistylistic concept program which includes (with one exception) works of all participating artists. During 3 internal workshop days before the beginning of the tour and 2 public workshop days and the end of the tour the artists will demonstrate their ways of working for this unique ensemble. Also at the workshop in Berlin Ken Butler will present a close r view on the functionality of his self-made hybrid instruments which are exclusively presented IN GERMANY FOR FIRST TIME. The musical results of this mutlistylistic ensemble can then be heard in the concerts of the tour. D.I.Y. is a tour project of the Neue Komponisten Gesellschaft e.V. Germany under the artistic curation of Christoph Grund, Dietrich Eichmann and Wolfgang von Stuermer. Most of the concerts of the tour will be recorded by e.g. Radio Bremen, SWF, SDR radio stations and be broadcasted publicly in the nearer future. T H E P R O G R A M WOLFGANG VON STUERMER: "Held at Gun Point" - Countdown for MAX-networked hybrids, accordion, computer disturbed sampler & piano with 4 hands KEN BUTLER: "Voice of anxious objects" - Solo performance for hybrid instruments DIETRICH EICHMANN: ñOutre-meUse en bAs" - Improvisation with hybrids, accordion, piano and keyboards ANTHONY COLEMAN: "Below 14th St./Above 125th St." - for accordion solo CHRISTOPH GRUND: ñOn est d'accordî - concert for accordion and hybrid orchestra ANTHONY COLEMAN: "Ethnic Slurs/Critical Lists" - for piano solo MICHEL ACKERMANN: "Song XX" - Comprovisation for hybrid ensemble and piano ANTHONY COLEMAN: "untitled new composition" - for hybrid ensemble Duration of the program ca. 1 1/2 hours. T H E A R T I S T S ANTHONY COLEMAN has been called "an eccentric, fertile thinker...the downtown scene's Great Undiscovered Talent." (Peter Watrous, Village Voice). His fascination with the culture of the Balkan countries, reminiscences of traditional Jewish music, and elem ents of the classical music and avant-garde at the same time are characteristic for his music. His virtuoso treatment of the sampling keyboard gives evidence for the matter of course how the borders between different musical styles have disappeared in New York. His Ensemble "By Night" recorded the CD "Disco by Night" for the Japanese label AVANT. A duo-project together with the saxophonist Roy Nathanson received international acclaim and released two CDs on Knitting Factory Works. CD releases also with Co mposers Recordings Inc. and Crepescule (with Marc Ribot). His music is performed at most major jazz and new music festivals in the US, Canada and Europe by himself and other Ensembles (e.g., Relache). He performs regularly with bands of John Zorn, Elliot Sharp and Marc Ribot's Rootless Cosmopolitans. DIETRICH EICHMANN pursues authenticity without any compromise as a composer. He started his musical activity as a jazz musician and arranger. His individual piano style was decisively influenced by his improvisation studies with Alexander von Schlippenbac h and the improvisations with Garret List in Liege (Belgium). His unmistakable way of finding musical extremes is based on studies in composition with Wolfgang Rihm and Frederic Rzewski. He took part in the "International Composers Workshop of the Ensembl e Modern" and receives grants from the "Summercourses for New Music Darmstadt," the "Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWF," and the "Senatsverwaltung f. Kulturelle Angelegenheiten Berlin." His music was broadcasted by German, Swiss and Belgium radio stations . Since 1993 he works as a duo with the Antwerp clarinet player Takashi Yamane. TEODORO ANZELOTTI is one of the protagonists of contemporary accordion music who decisively promoted the development of his instrument with a will to experiment and an artistic vision. Many composers discovered just through his work the specific expressio n possibilities of the accordion. A busy international concert activity at many New Music festivals and over 100 world premieres document this. MICHEL ACKERMANN who studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe, Germany started his musical career as a rock musician with the band CRACK. He caused much stirring attention with his series of "songs" for a chamber musical instrumentation. In the se pieces he confronts elements of jazz, rock, pop and new music in a risky and exciting context. His work has been performed by the Arditti Quartet, London, the Berlin Saxophine Quartet, the Ensemble Jaques Desclus, Paris, and the Ensemble Intermodulatio n Budapest. He continues the tendency of transcending different musical styles started in his composition work with the improvisation duo with the saxophonist Bastian Fiebig. KEN BUTLER is a multi-media artist who presents an evening of Duchampian audio-visual antics and explorations with live music performed on an arsenal of hybrid instruments made from household objects to create a provoking cultural portrait of man/machine adaptation and transformation. He studied viola at the age of eleven, and while maintaining a strong interest in music, pursued a career in visual arts, now holding a BA in studio art and a M.F.A. in painting, always being able to ingeniously combine his musical and visual abilities. His "Hybrid Instruments" can be found in many museums and exhibitions throughout the US and Europe (e.g., Het Apollohuis in Eindhoven, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Portland Center for the Visual Arts and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York). CHRISTOPH GRUND presents his exceptional capacity as a pianist at world premieres and radio productions of selected contemporary piano music, and is working as a versatile pianist in the Ensemble 13, the Symphonic Orchestra of the SWF and many other chamb er music formations. At the same time he realizes music for radio-plays, music for video productions, and computer music projects. An emphasis in his composition work lies on multi-media performance projects that include visual elements and techniques (Vi deo, Slide-projection) into the musical presentation. WOLFGANG VON STUERMER's music is a crossover between steam-hammer techno, softest violin sounds, recitative speech fragments, avant-garde techniques and heavy metal techniques. His list of works contains compositions for chamber music instrumentation, com puter music, karaoke-alike performances as well as interactive projects. He does not leave it all an empty phrase but crosses the seemingly incompatible spheres of rock and new music. His music is a permanent challenge for the listener. In 1993 he release d his debut CD "waeren wir damals nur Klueger gewesen" (if we'd been smarter those days) which gathered international acclaim on his own label NoHarmDone publications New York/Berlin. His work reveals the will to force the principle of the consciously sel ected, demanding listening on the obtrusive, inescapable sound of everyday life. His work has been broadcasted and produced by the SDR, ORF, RB, BR, and many radio stations in the US like WFMU, WJFF, WMUA, KPFA and others. _______________________________________________________ Please contact the project coordination Germany for more information, updates and (if you want) last minute bookings: Neue Komponisten Gesellschaft e.V., c/o NoHarmDone publications - Wolfgang von Stuermer: Tel./Fax. +49-30/341 57 13 Internet ArtsWire (You won't believe it, but we have still 2 dates free. So if you want us - send a message now!) A B O U T T H E P R O M O T E R The Neue Komponisten Gesellschaft e.V. is an organization founded by young German composers to promote up-to-date music. In the 3 years of its existence it runs a regular concert series in cooperation with the SDR radio, studio Karlsruhe, Germany and real ized many musical events e.g. with Akademie der Kuenste Berlin and the Ensemble Intermodulation, Budapest, Hungary amongst others. __________________________________________________________ --end of press release-- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 12:59:14 +0200 From: "A. Fiorletta" Subject: Mr. Fourier semifinals I'm getting some fft algorithm all around the net. A it seems that just few are good... so I'm doing one (for x86 cpu) on my own. I'll mail a complete list of the good ones, but I must complain about the fact that there are no Fourier Monsters on this list! :-) Look for the FINALS! P.S. What about the other contest: Chord recognition? I got no reply for that... No one with good ideas about? Bye. Alessandro. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 16:03:26 -0600 From: Arne Claassen ISE Subject: Re: Mr. Fourier semifinals > P.S. What about the other contest: Chord recognition? I got no reply for > that... No one with good ideas about? There's such a program for the Mac. It recognizes chords you play and helps you find related chords. There's a demo version on umich, but i cannot remember the name. Something with ear in it... :) -- Arne F. Claassen On the Web: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "[I]f a license was required to drive your synth, there might be less of a need for these newbie-type questions - then again, we'd have to deal with a Department of Transportation (Workstation?) - aaahhhhh!" - Jeff Schultz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 15:08:00 EST From: rg8 Subject: Computer Music Conference I hope the following events will be of interest to those who are in the Washington, DC area November 10-12. You can call the Concert Office number listed below for more information, or send me private mail. Thanks, Bob Gibson rg8@umail.umd.edu _____________________________________________ The University of Maryland at College Park and the Department of Music present TECHNOLOGY AND THE COMPOSER A Conference Exploring the Continuing Tradition of Music composed for Tape All events in Tawes Fine Arts Building University of Maryland, College Park All events are free and open to the public Thursday, November10, 1994 Opening Concert 8 pm Concert Works by Gottfried Koenig, Luigi Nono, John Cage, Robert Erickson, Mark Wilson, and James Dashow ULRICH RECITAL HALL Friday, November 11, 1994 Compositional Strategies 10 am Lecture Otto Laske Composition Theory as a Theory of the Imaginative Self ROOM 2154 11 am Lecture Michael Hamman A Cybernetics of Composition: Engineering Systems that Compose Themselves ROOM 2154 2 pm Panel Discussion Compositional Stategies for Tape Music ROOM 2154 8 pm Concert Works by Iannis Xenakis, Wesley Fuller, Gerald Bennett, Pauline Oliveros,Brian Belet, Robert Gibson, and Lawrence Moss ULRICH RECITAL HALL Saturday, November 12, 1994 Compositional Aesthetics for Tape Music 10 am Lecture Joji Yuasa A Track on White Noise from Tape to Computer ROOM 2154 11 am Lecture Jean-Claude Risset Composing Sounds with Computers ROOM 2154 2 pm Panel Discussion The Aesthetics of Electroacoustic Music ROOM 2154 8 pm concert Works by Jean-Claude Risset, Michael Hamman, Joji Yuasa, Otto Laske,Thomas DeLio, and Linda Dusman ULRICH RECITAL HALL For further information, please contact the Concert Office at the UMCP Department of Music (301) 405-5548 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 18:29:40 -0500 From: Stephen David Beck Subject: SEAMUS 10th Anniversary Concerts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nationwide Concert Celebrates Electro-Acoustic Music Society's 10th Anniversary A nationwide concert will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the national society for electronic and computer music. Organized on November 9, 1984, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) has been bringing together composers, performers and enthusiasts of this genre through concerts, recordings and conferences. The society is a charter member in the International Confederation for Electro-acoustic Music, a UNESCO organization that promotes the genre world-wide. Since its inception, the organization has grown to over 300 members, and provided its members with the semi-annual Journal SEAMUS, a quarterly newsletter, and sponsorship of the annual National Conference. SEAMUS maintains an archive of American Electro-Acoustic Music in cooperation with the University of Texas. The society's most ambitious project has been the SEAMUS Compact Disc program; a juried recording of works by member composers. In celebration of its 10th anniversary, SEAMUS is coordinating over 25 concerts of American electro-acoustic music to be held at sites across the country. Each concert is being produced locally in cooperation with a specific concert venue or university. In addition, the society is sponsoring a national competition for student composers. The winning work will be performed at the 1995 SEAMUS National Conference at Ithaca College, and will be included in the release of the next SEAMUS Compact Disc. All events will take place on November 9, 1994. Contact local site for event information, times, locations, and programs. A complete listing of all concerts are programs (as known) is available by anonymous ftp from the SEAMUS ftp site. The address is: nicemusic.music.niu.edu:/pub/SEAMUS Participants in the SEAMUS 10th Anniversary Concert are (by region): Northeast: University of Massachusetts - Amherst, MA Contact: Charles Bestor Dartmouth College - Dartmouth, NH Contact: Jon Appleton Ithaca College - Ithaca, NY Contact: Peter Rothbart New York Public Library Music Division - New York, NY Contact: Judy Klein State University of New York - Stony Brook - Stony Brook, NY Contact: Dan Weymouth West Chester University - Swarthmore, PA Contact: Larry Nelson Brown University - Providence, RI Contact: Todd Winkler Middlebury College - Middlebury, VT Contact: George Todd South: Florida International University - Miami, FL Contact: Orlando Garcia Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, LA Contact: Stephen David Beck University of Sourth Carolina - Columbia, SC Contact: Mladen Milicevic Midwest: Chicago Musical College at Roosevelt University - Chicago, IL Contact: Don Malone Northern Illinois University - DeKalb, IL Contact: Jim Phelps University of Illinois - Urbana, IL Contact: Scott Wyatt Ball State University - Muncie, IN Contact: Jody Nagel Oberlin Conservatory - Oberlin, OH Contact: Gary Lee Nelson University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Milwaukee, WI Contact: Dr. Jon Welstead Central: University of Central Oklahoma - Edmond, OK Contact: Sam Magrill University of Tennessee - Martin - Martin, TN Contact: Dwight Gatwood University of Texas - Austin, TX Contact: Russell Pinkston University of North Texas - Denton, TX Contact: Cindy McTee Rice University - Houston, TX Contact: Arthur Gottschalk West: San Jose State University - San Jose, CA Contact: Brian Belet This event will occur on November 10, 1994 Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo - San Luis Obispo, CA Contact: Antonio Barata California Institute of the Arts - Valencia, CA Contact: Barry Schrader Contact the local site for information on concert times, location and programs. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 08:18:40 +0100 From: Michel Fingerhut Subject: The Contemporary Music Documentation Center - info on WWW "Ostinato", the informational newsletter of the Documentation Center of Contemporary Music (located in the "Cite de la Musique" in Paris, France), is now available on IRCAM's WWW server. It comprizes, among many other things, detailed lists of concerts and festivals in France (and some abroad), informations for composers and interpreters, etc. Information on the CDMC itself (hours, activities, documentations, etc) is also available there. --Michael Fingerhut ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 08:26:33 +0100 From: Michel Fingerhut Subject: The Contemporary Music Documentation Center - info on WWW (and address!) (Sorry, URL was missing). "Ostinato", the informational newsletter of the Documentation Center of Contemporary Music (located in the "Cite de la Musique" in Paris, France), is now available on IRCAM's WWW server (http://www.ircam.fr, with link to english text). It comprizes, among many other things, detailed lists of concerts and festivals in France (and some abroad), informations for composers and interpreters, etc. Information on the CDMC itself (hours, activities, documentations, etc) is also available there. --Michael Fingerhut ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Nov 1994 10:39:05 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: Computer Music Conference >I hope the following events will be of interest >to those who are in the Washington, DC area >November 10-12. You can call the Concert Office >number listed below for more information, or >send me private mail. > >Thanks, > >Bob Gibson >rg8@umail.umd.edu I'm hoping to attend as many sessions as I can. Things look a little rough at work this week. --- Joe M. -- "It's a triple feature: a garage punk band, [John Zorn's] "Cobra," then another garage punk band. We're gonna get lynched." - metlay ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Nov 1994 05:51:54 -0500 From: Robert Wigness Subject: Re: EMUSIC-L Digest - 6 Nov 1994 to 7 Nov 1994 SEAMUS Concert also at The University of Vermont -- Burlington, Vermont contact - Robert Wigness ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Nov 1994 17:51:28 -0800 From: "Janet M. Dunbar" Subject: CCRMA Concert FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Bostwick, (415) 723-3811 Concert of new works by CCRMA composers Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics (CCRMA) will present a concert featuring new computer music by CCRMA composers, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15, in Campbell Recital Hall. The program will include the following pieces: Juan Pampin, Apocalypse was postponed due to lack of interest; Fernando Lopez-Lezcano, Knock knock...anybody there?; Ron Alford, Dance Episode; Janet Dunbar, Life on Earth, featuring performance poet April Eiler; ...que me hiciste mal... (You did me wrong), Pablo Cetta; and Michael Edwards, Brownian Motion. Directed by John Chowning, the Doreen B. Townsend Center for Computer Research in Music & Acoustics is one of the major centers for computer music in the world. An interdisciplinary environment, CCRMA gives students, resident composers, guest composers and researchers an opportunity to work together using digital technology as a new musical and artistic medium. Tickets for this performance, $7 general admission and $4 students, are available at Tresidder Ticket Office, (415) 723-4317, or at the door. For information, call the Music Department at (415) 723-3811. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 11:26:40 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Conference report on "Technology and the Composer" - prelude I will be posting a few articles over the next day of so on the "Technology and the Composer" conference held this last weekend at the University of Maryland. As a quick summary, I had a great time, met a lot of interesting people (including a number of folks from this list), heard some interesting talks, and listened to some fascinating music. More later whe I've had time to write it all up. --- Joe M. -- csound - anything you can imagine... in about an hour. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 18:26:26 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: "Technology and the Composer" - lectures/panels I This past week, there was a conference on "Technology and the Composer" hosted at the University of Maryland at College Park, with lectures, panel discussions, and concerts of contemporary electronic music. For everyone who has no interest in csound, music theory, etc., you may just skip this message and any which may follow with related subjects. What I'll be doing here is summing up my experiences as an outsider (I lean more to the popular side of things) at both the lectures and the concerts, with random interspersions of comment and opinion. ("Oh, just like a regular post from you, then." Yep.) First of all, I'd like to thank everyone connected with the conference, officially and otherwise. All of these folks were friendly, approachable, and very willing to talk to someone with a different slant on things. All of you made this conference a very, very enjoyable experience; I do hope there'll be another around here sometime soon! Special thanks to Scott McCoy and Robert Gibson, both of whom are members of the list - it was great to meet you and you helped me meet a lot of folks who I might not have otherwise. I, alas, did not get to attend all the sessions on all the days, and was unfortunately unable to attend the final concert. See the forthcoming post on Jean-Claude Risset's lecture to see why... --- Day 0 (Wednesday, November 9) On Wednesday night, Scott McCoy gave a not-on-the-official-schedule lecture on the structure of Xenakis's piano piece "Mists". I hadn't heard any Xenakis previously, but was intrigued by the descriptions that had passed by here on the list. I was amply repaid for my efforts in attending. Scott's analysis very clearly demonstrated a *lot* of interesting fine structure in the piece - both on what Xenakis calls the "outside time" structures (i.e., the stuff decided upon before any actual composing takes place, such as general musical for, or the musical shapes to be followed), and the "inside time" structures, which are those which actually are written down to display the outside time structures. Mists is built on essentially three basic materials - long, linear flows through pitch sets (extended scales, sort of like twelve-tone rows massively extended, in this case to 90 tone), chromatic, ascending-and-descending flows, and scattered or sprinkled, semi-notated splatters of notes. Scott made a good analogy to solids, liquids, and gases for these three types of material. (As an aside, the notation for the "gaseous" material is done by writing extended eighth and sixteenth notes across both staves, and placing the heads on the precise notes to be played *relative* to the extended note stems, not on them, thus giving an indeterminate, estimated notation. Sounds good, looks cool. :) Scott also went into a lot of detail about how the lengths of the sections of various materials and their transformations were related by the Golden Section. Very interesting, but impossible to reasonably depict in ASCII, so I'll skip it. He also showed how the usage of each type of material very closely fit a logarthmic curve. Last, he played us a recording (I believe it was by the Arditti Quartet?) of the actual piece. A stunning work (there were a number of "how'd he DO that?" experiences), which the pianist was absolutely on top of the material from beginning to end. It's a very complex and difficult piece, handled beautifully. One thing that definitely crossed my mind during the piece was "I've never heard a piano with a sample and hold before." :) I tried to follow the analysis, but I got way too caught up in the music to pay attention to it, and I wanted to hear it again just as soon as it was over - a good sign to me. I recommend it as a non-lease-breaking Xenakis piece, and a good one to start with, as the sonorities aren't so forbidding as to make your head hurt while you're trying to listen. :) Tomorrow: concert, day 1. --- Joe M. -- csound - anything you can imagine... in about an hour. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 16:45:14 -0600 From: rmc Subject: call for entries Artemisia Gallery, a not-for-profit women's cooperative is organizing an international show of women's electronic art. All media are eligible. Submit appropriate documentation (10 slides, videotape, audiotape, CDROM) to Women in Technology Search c/o Andrea Polli 4817 Central Western Springs, IL 60558 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 Nov 1994 11:13:56 EST From: "Dr. James Paul Sain" Subject: Fourth Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival ********************** _CALL_FOR_SUBMISSIONS_ ********************** EVENT: Fourth Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival PLACE: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida DATE: March 30-April 1, 1995 Submissions are invited for performance consideration on the Fourth Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. This year's composer-in- residence is Cort Lippe, internationally renowned composer of electro- acoustic/computer music; past composers-in-residence have included Hubert S. Howe, pioneer of direct-digital synthesis. Works for tape alone should be submitted on DAT, 1/4" 1/2-track stereo, or high quality cassette (B or C noise reduction). SASE for return. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Jan. 15, 1995 NOTIFICATION: Jan. 22, 1995 (email); Jan. 29, 1995 (post) SEND TAPES TO: Dr James Paul Sain Director of Electroacoustic Music University of Florida Music PO Box 117900 Gainesville, FL 32611 CONTACT: jsain@nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu (904)392-9313/voice * (904)392-0461/fax ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 09:45:35 EST From: "Eric Harnden (Ronin)" Subject: dc emusic recital There Will Be Noiz: as part of their requirements for independent studies in sound synthesis, sean simmen and jason geistweidt will be performing in the kay spiritual life center on the american university campus in washington, dc, at 8:30 pm on monday, the 28th of november. the presentation will be informal, and free. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 26 Nov 1994 19:58:34 -0800 From: atomic city Subject: Re: ELECTROdeCONcdRELEASE Macalester College Music Department writes-- > >I think this or any other kind of blatant advertising is completely >inappropriate on this list! I object! It is inappropriate, with one exception: we allow an announcement to be made when a LIST MEMBER releases a self-produced record, on the assumption that people would like to hear what other musicians are doing. And even then, we prefer that mailing addresses and prices not be posted, but simply an email address where the interested parties may email for information. mike -- mike metlay | atomic city | Nick Rothwell on the Alesis Quadrasynth: p.o.box 81175 | pgh pa 15217-0675 | "Goomba... Alesis drags synthesis technology atomic@netcom.com | kicking and screaming into the 1960's. Film at 11." ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1994 11:11:07 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: Re: ELECTROdeCONcdRELEASE >Macalester College Music Department writes-- >> >>I think this or any other kind of blatant advertising is completely >>inappropriate on this list! I object! > >It is inappropriate, with one exception: we allow an announcement to >be made when a LIST MEMBER releases a self-produced record, on the >assumption that people would like to hear what other musicians are >doing. And even then, we prefer that mailing addresses and prices not >be posted, but simply an email address where the interested parties >may email for information. Absolutely. And posting a review of the cd-production experience for others who might be thinking about releasing their own is a Good Thing as well. --- Joe M. -- csound - anything you can imagine... in about an hour. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 06:59:15 -0800 From: atomic city Subject: Re: ELECTROdeCONcdRELEASE Macalester College Music Department writes-- > >Thank you Mike, I stand, partially at least, corrected. That's quite all right. It pays to restate the limits of our discussions here occasionally. I, in particular, have to be very careful about abusing the limits of EMUSIC-L, since I run a record label and would like nothing more than to toot my own horn at a captive audience. mike -- mike metlay | atomic city | Nick Rothwell on the Alesis Quadrasynth: p.o.box 81175 | pgh pa 15217-0675 | "Goomba... Alesis drags synthesis technology atomic@netcom.com | kicking and screaming into the 1960's. Film at 11." ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 09:37:14 -0600 From: Stephen David Beck Subject: Re: SEAMUS Yes, SEAMUS, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States is alive and well. SEAMUS is an organization of over 300 composers, performers, educators, students, and enthusiasts of electronic and computer music. Last November 9, the Society celebrated its 10th anniversary with concerts, lectures, and demonstrations at 25 different sites across the country. The upcoming National conference will be held March 23-25, 1995 at Ithaca College, Ithaca NY. SEAMUS has an experimental ftp/gopher site, but we don't have much there right now. If you would like more information regarding SEAMUS, please feel free to write me directly at: sbeck@math.lsu.edu (don't mind the math suffix, that's just my mail server). Stephen David Beck President-Elect Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) School of Music Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (504)388.2594 (504)388.2562 fax ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 12:01:23 -0500 From: Joe McMahon Subject: list stats - off-topic, but rather interesting >hey joe, out of curiosity, how large is this list? >cd 577 subscribers. The online service breakdown is 74 from AOL, 35, from Netcom, 3 from Delphi, 3 from Compuserve. The person who's been subscribed the longest under the same address is Brian Adamson (since April 3, 1989). 7 subscribers have been subscribed since 1989, 3 since 1990, 21 since 1991, 18 since 1992, 89 since 1993, and 434 since 1994. A bit of interesting trivia. Note that the numbers are somewhat distorted by address changes (there are people who have been on since 1989 who show up in the 1994 count - I'm one of those). --- Joe M. -- csound - anything you can imagine... in about an hour. ------------------------------ End of the EMUSIC-L Digest ******************************