Since I live in Connecticut, it is a little too far to travel for this meeting much as I would like to be there. If someone could manage a video recording, I would purchase a copy.
Bob On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 20:17 -0700, Noah Thorp wrote: > Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT) > Sunday afternoon presentations by David Cope and Peter Elsea > Sunday, May 11, 2008 at 1:00 PM > Music Building @ University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 > RSVP: http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/152/calendar/7516169/ > > Thank you to David Cope and Peter Elsea for hosting the Bay Area > Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT) for a Sunday afternoon at > University of Santa Cruz! > > This Sunday's presentations: > - David Cope will discuss and demonstrate his work with his computer > program Experiments in Musical Intelligence. This will include a world > premiere of a work by Emmy-Bach never before heard. > - Peter Elsea will give a tour of the facilities and a presentation on > recent work using Max/MSP for algorithmic composition with visualizations. > > If you are not familiar with David Cope's work, it represents a landmark > moment in computer creativity (similar to Kurzweil's AARON application > in the visual sphere). Cope's Experiments in Musical Intelligence set > the bar for generative music by analyzing scores and writing new pieces > in the style of the composer analyzed. If the turing test was a musical > one, experiments in musical intelligence would be likely to pass the > test. Those who encounter this work are often excited or even frightened > by its implications. I encourage you to come and engage in this > important work directly. You can listen to realizations of Cope's > experiments in musical intelligence scores here (listen to "After Bach", > "After Beethoven", etc. - there might be a lag before playing): > http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/mp3page.htm > > Peter Elsea's presentations will give us a window into this frequent > computer music community contributor's latest works. It will be exciting > to see his new approaches to visualization and algorithmic composition > and also get a sense of the UCSC studios he stewards. > > All the best, > Noah Thorp > Organizer > Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT) > > DIRECTIONS > > UCSC is not very google maps friendly. Here is the lat/lon location of > the music building: > http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104428095974959315351.00044c9b3fa164b7ff88f&t=h&z=19 > > Here are the directions from UCSC: > http://maps.ucsc.edu/cdmusic.html > > There will be a machine dispensing parking permits for $2. The music > center is the concrete complex at the far end of the parking lot. Go all > the way to the plaza overlooking the bay, and look left for the building > entrance. There will be signs to the proper room. > > BIOS > > DAVID COPE ( http://arts.ucsc.edu/faculty/cope/index.html ), Professor > Emeritus of Music at UC Santa Cruz, teaches in the annual Workshop in > Algorithmic Computer Music (WACM) held in June-July at UC Santa Cruz. > Cope's books on modern music include New Directions in Music (seventh > edition), Techniques of the Contemporary Composer, and New Music > Notation. His books on the intersection of music and computer science > include Computers and Musical Style, Experiments in Musical > Intelligence, The Algorithmic Composer, Virtual Music, Computer Models > of Musical Creativity, and Hidden Structure (available through most > online book sellers) and describe the computer program Experiments in > Musical Intelligence which he created in 1981. Recordings of his music > appear on Centaur, Smithsonian Folkways, Opus One, and Vienna Modern > Masters and include a wide diversity of works, from large ensembles to > soloists with electronic and computer-generated tape. > > PETER ELSEA ( http://arts.ucsc.edu/EMS/Music/PQE/More_PQE.html ) is the > director of the UCSC Electronic Music Program. He is known world-wide > for his "Lobjects" software for the Max/MSP music programming > environment, and his tutorials for that language are in use at most > major electronic music institutions. Google reports more than 1000 links > to his internet articles on music technology, which have been on line > since 1994. In addition to his work in composition and synthesis, he has > been for some years exploring the combination of sound and light using > high speed computers. Part of his visual collaboration with Mesut Ozgen, > "New Dimensions in Classical Guitar" (seen at UCSC in 2004) was recently > presented in Istanbul. > > _______________________________________________ > Cmdist mailing list > [email protected] > http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist _______________________________________________ Cmdist mailing list [email protected] http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist
