Electroacoustic Music
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“Génétiques de la computer music”
Génèse Musicales is a new book edited by Nicolas Donin, Almuth Grésillon and Jean-Louis Lebrave (PUPS, Sorbonne, october 2015). Table of contents: http://pups.paris-sorbonne.fr/catalogue/arts-et-esthetique/hors-collection-histoire-geographie-et-archeologie/geneses-musicales In a chapter entitled Génétiques de la computer music I demonstrate that techniques derives from the discipline of philology of music can be usefully applied to the study of computer music. The chapter outlines an overview…
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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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Alternative Histories of Electronic Music
International Conference: Alternative Histories of Electronic Music: 15–16 April 2016, The Science Museum Research Centre, Queen’s Gate, London. Call for papers (Deadline: 31 October). The story of the genesis and development of electronic/electroacoustic music is often told in the same familiar way. Experiments in musique concrète in Paris and elektronische Musik in Cologne played a central role in…
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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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Electronicgirls Label: CALL FOR SOUNDS
I am pleased to share this CALL FOR SOUNDS received from my “electric” friends ELECTRONICGIRLS DEADLINE 25.12.15 On the occasion of its 6th anniversary, Electronicgirls is pleased to announce Pleiadi: call for sound, a project aimed at the realization of a new release in free-dowload from January 9th. This year we seek the generation of a collective sound piece: Pleiadum…
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THEREMIN ECLECTICISM – Part 1
Originally posted on Feminatronic: ? ? ? ? ?
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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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Electro Camp 2015 – festival & workshop, September 9-13
Electronicgirls è una netlabel dedicata all’attività delle donne nel campo della musica elettronica del presente e del passato. Dal 9 al 13 Settembre (Forte Marghera, Venezia) Electronicgirls organizza questo evento (festival + workshop) a cui non potete mancare. Iscrivetevi: le iscrizioni scadono a breve, il 24 agosto! Avete ancora pochi giorni di tempo per farlo! Electronicgirls is…
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Women In Engineering – open access articles
Women In Engineering – open access articles: I received this from Taylor & Francis Editors and I like sharing it with you: Women in Engineering. They have collected (and share for free!) a number of articles for, about or written by women from across a range of subject areas – particularly engineering (STEM science, technology, engineering, or…
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The female women programmers of ENIAC
The ENIAC programmers project is a project by Kathy Kleiman, a young programmer in the mid-1980s, who has recorded oral histories with the original ENIAC female programmers in the late 1990s. Their stories were fascinating but lost for more than 50 years. In Kathy’s words: “Not only did they program the ENIAC, the first all-electronic, digital computer during WWII without manuals or programming…
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