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CSC (Centro di Sonologia Computazionale), University of Padova
CSC’S HISTORY: The Centro di Sonologia Computazionale was funded in 1979 at Padova University. The initial research and works in the field of musical informatics date to the beginning of the ’70s. The institute was first located at the CCA – Centro di Calcolo di Ateneo (the university computing centre). Activites were based on the collaboration between engineers, musicians,…
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Stria by John Chowning, the ultimate analysis!
Stria (1977) by John Chowning is a milestone in the history of computer music. My analysis of this wonderful piece is now published on the IRCAM site. It brings together the results of my now thirteen-year-old project. http://brahms.ircam.fr/analyses/Stria/ I am particularly proud of this analysis. Together with John Chowning, I decided to create some explanatory videos where Mr. Chowning…
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(Reblogged) Game Music: How Laura Shigihara Created “Rakuen” and its Soundtrack
Reblogged from Feminatronic: Interview with Laura Shigihara: the creation of “Rakuen” and its Soundtrack High Scores is a monthly column in which Bandcamp profiles a video game soundtrack composer. In the first installment, Casey Jarman talks to Laura Shigihara about her latest game soundtrack, “Rakuen.” Laura Shigihara is a classic overachiever. She’s both a musician and…
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‘Reversal Of The Muse’ – femininity in creativity
REVERSAL OF THE MUSE is a new blog curated by Laura Marling that explores femininity in creativity. The first podcast presents an interview with Vanessa Parr, sound engineer at The Village Studios in LA for 10 years, close collaborator of Elton John, B.B. King, Coldplay and John Mayer amongst others, and now independent sound engineer.…
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A questionnaire-based investigation of the skills and roles of Computer Music Designers
This article I co-wrote with Nicolas Donin has just been published: A questionnaire-based investigation of the skills and roles of Computer Music Designers, Musicae Scientiae, September 2016 20: 436–456, doi:10.1177/1029864915624136. This essay adds one more piece to the puzzle of the musical assistant research I’ve been developing for four years, and the implications of collaboration in the art computer music scene.…
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Collaboration and Musical Assistants at IRCAM, CCRMA, and CSC
On Thursday 14 April, I will present my research at the AHEM (Alternative Histories of Electronic Music) conference (14-16 April 2016). And I will also chair one of the sessions. I’m looking forward to hearing hidden stories happened around the world! Abstract The revolution of sound recording, synthesis and transformation (commenced in 1948 with concrete music and…
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John Chowning and Theremin: oral history interview (Stanford Archive)
Jonathan Manton, sound archive librarian at the Stanford University Libraries, has just published this article and mp3 file: on September 2nd, 2015, he carried out an oral history interview with John Chowning, Professor Emeritus at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) and inventor of Frequency Modulation (FM) synthesis. They discussed Chowning’s background in computer…
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“Can Composition and Performance be Research?” Forum, November 25th, London
Try to imagine a research funding application from Arnold Schoenberg. Research question: ‘can I make music in which all pitch classes are played equally often?’. In his article ‘Composition is not Research’ John Croft challenges a conception and ideal of compositional work in academia (download the PDF article). The incongruity between the act of composition and the way…
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The economics of creativity
“The economics of creativity” was the heading of a round table that took place last Saturday in Paris (Centre Pompidou) in the final section of the conference Tracking the Creative Process in Music with Pierre-Michel Menger (Collège de France, EHESS), author of The Economics of Creativity (Harvard University Press, 2014), Howard Becker, Georgina Born, and Nicholas Cook (chair). In his book The…
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mia madre
Originally posted on aldo ricci blog: Diana Baylon (1920-2013) nei ’70 ph Aldo Ricci http://www.dianabaylon.it/
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