Oral History
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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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“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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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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