Vintage Technology
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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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Teresa Rampazzi in The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music
Louise Gray gave Teresa Rampazzi’s album IMMAGINI PER DIANA BAYLON (1972) a terrific review in the September Issue of The Wire: Adventures in Modern Music. I’m so proud of this research project of mine. And thanks to Die Schachtel friends Bruno Stucchi and Fabio Carboni. I am delighted to be part of their research team. Teresa…
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CFP: Reassessing Pierre Schaeffer’s Contributions to Music and Sound Studies
I’m glad to share this call for contributions (from Patrick Valiquet, organizer). This is going to be a very interesting conference. “Experiments in Music Research – Reassessing Pierre Schaeffer’s Contributions to Music and Sound Studies” 9 December 2016 Department of Music, University of Birmingham The Traité des objets musicaux (Treatise of musical objects) is the…
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Immagini Per Diana Baylon: new vinyl by Teresa Rampazzi
As with the spellbinding Musica Endoscopica, this issue of Immagini Per Diana Baylon – one of her three known soundtracks for art installations – helps to place Teresa as Italy’s answer to Daphne Oram; that is, a pioneering female experimenter operating in a male dominated field since the ’50s, and an artist/musician/technician who was magnetically drawn to the emerging possibilities…
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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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Éliane Radigue International Conference, CFP
I am pleased to share with you this Call for Papers I just received from Marc Battier, professor at IReMus / Université Paris-Sorbonne. COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL ÉLIANE RADIGUE Le colloque international Éliane Radigue a l’ambition de réaliser un panorama de l’œuvre de la pionnière de la musique électroacoustique française Éliane Radigue et d’inciter à la recherche sur les…
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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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THEREMIN ECLECTICISM – Part 1
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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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«È il sistema che non funziona!»: Angelo Paccagnini (electroacoustic) music composer
Angelo Paccagnini (Castano Primo, 17/10/1930 – Milano, 02/07/1999) was an Italian composer and intellectual. He wrote instrumental and electroacoustic music; was the director of the Studio di Fonologia della RAI in Milan from 1968 to 1970, was an intellectual catalyst in the rediscovery of Ancient Music during the Sixties and the Seventies, wrote articles and…
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