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ICMC-NYCEMF 2019 Program Book ICMC- NYCEMF 2019 International Computer Music Conference New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival June 16-23 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SHEEN CENTER FRIDMAN GALLERY INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER MUSIC CONFERENCE __ NEW YORK CITY ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC FESTIVAL __ JUNE 16-23, 2019 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY FULTON J. SHEEN CENTER FRIDMAN GALLERY __ www.nycemf.org CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 WELCOMING STATEMENTS 5 KEYNOTE SPEAKER 8 LOCATIONS 9 SCHEDULE 11 STEERING COMMITTEE 13 STAFF & REVIEWING 14 CONCERTS 19 IMMERSION CONCERTS 62 PAPERS 70 PANELS 77 WORKSHOPS 78 INSTALLATIONS 80 INSTALLATION ARTISTS 82 COMPOSERS 84 PERFORMERS 125 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DIRECTOR’S WELCOME FROM WELCOME DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS Welcome to ICMC-NYCEMF 2019 PROFESSIONS, On behalf of the Steering Committee, it is my great NEW YORK UNIVERSITY pleasure to welcome you to the 2019 joint International Computer Music Conference and New York City Welcome to the 2019 NYC International Computer Music Electroacoustic Music Festival. We have an exciting Conference! program of 25 concerts, paper sessions, sound installations, panel discussions, workshops, “immersion” It is great pleasure that New York University’s (NYU) concerts, and late-night concerts taking place in and Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions around New York University in New York City. We hope (MPAP) is partnering with NYCEMF in bringing the ICMC that you will enjoy all of them. conference to New York City this year. The ICMC-NYCEMF team and NYU team have worked We would first like to express our sincere appreciation to tirelessly to bring you 27 concerts, daily parallel paper the following people and organizations who have sessions, installations around the city (including contributed to us this year, in particular: Governor’s Island), seven panel discussions, 14 workshops, and Bard Garton as our keynote speaker. - New York University What is very exciting — is not only the sheer number of - The Genelec corporation, for providing us with submissions the event received this year: nearly 1000! — loudspeakers to enable us to play all concerts in full but also the extended seven days of ICMC events we surround sound have in store for you, to celebrate the depth and breadth of the world of computer music today. - The Fulton J. Sheen Center for Thought and Culture I am particularly proud of the partnership with the - Harvestworks International Computer Music Association (ICMA), NYU Libraries, and MPAP launched last year – the - Fractured Atlas/Rocket Hub Electro-Acoustic Music Mine (EAMM) archives, where all works presented at ICMCs, starting with last year, will be - Queens College and Brooklyn College, C.U.N.Y., the preserved and archived here in the Big Apple! State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the University of Central Missouri for lending us equipment Congratulations to all in being selected to this highly and facilities prestigious conference — and once again, welcome to The Melting Pot and the City That Never Sleeps! - Parts Express Sincerely, - Svensk Musik and the Swedish Society of Composers - The Adam Mickiewicz Institute Ron Sadoff, Ph.D. - The Daegu Foundation for Culture Chair, NYU MPAP - to our keynote speaker, Brad Garton Hubert Howe Emeritus Professor of Music Queens College and the Graduate Center City University of New York 5 Additionally, we are similarly continue with the ICMA PRESIDENT’S Soundscape Heritage Program launched in 2018 with focus on the multidimensional aspects of soundscape WELCOME exploration, preservation, research, public engagement, and musical possibilities. On behalf of the International Computer Music Once again, welcome, and thank you to all in making the Association (ICMA) board it is with great pleasure to 2019 ICMC conference possible! welcome you to the 2019 ICMC Edition in The Big Apple! Sincerely, I remember going to my first ICMC in 1998 when I was a graduate student, feeling overwhelmed and exited at the Tae Hong Park same time. Ever since that visit to Michigan, I have tried President, International Computer Music to go to every conference possible – when fortunate Association enough to get my work accepted – developing a close relationship with the conference and … hurricanes: I came to New York City in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy made landfall bringing havoc and rendering silent the southern part of Manhattan (an amazing sonic A NOTE FROM THE experience). Sandy, however, vividly reminds me of Katrina, the Category 5 Hurricane that brought PAPER CHAIRS devastation to New Orleans in August 2005. A year later in 2006, as some/many of you remember, we This year’s ICMC we had a total of 107 submitted papers triumphantly held the ICMC despite the destruction where 93 papers were accepted with an 86.9% where much of the effort in producing the ICMC as much acceptance rate. The top possible score was 5.0 points. an effort to help bring the city back as it was to avoid Of the total 107 submitted papers, 25 had ratings greater skipping an ICMC year … An amazing event it was or equal to 4.0, 44 papers had ratings between 3.0 and indeed: over 50 volunteers from around the country 4.0, and 24 papers had ratings > 2.0. Each paper came to volunteer and help make the Big Easy ICMC a received a minimum of three reviews. The topical spread reality – quite literally, we were fixing homes before, of papers ranged from Acoustics of Music; Acoustics, during, and after that time including building a shed at my Space, and Sound Distribution; Algorithmic Composition; home on the eve of the conference (thanks Yuri!). Composition Systems and Techniques; Analysis of Electro-Acoustic Music; Archiving and Preservation of Fast forward 12 years … I cannot believe that just last Electro-Acoustic Music; Studio Reports; Perception and year around this time we were in Daegu, South Korea, Cognition; Acoustic Ecology; Music Information Retrieval; enjoying a hot summer ICMC in one of the hottest cities History of Electro-Acoustic Music; Sonification; in Korea. As they say, time flies when you’re having fun! Improvisation and Technology; New Instruments for While time has flown by since organizing the first ICMC Musical Expression; Software and Hardware Systems; some 13 years ago (honestly thinking it would be the first 3D Audio; Distributed, Telematic, Mobile Music; and last but then finding myself organizing the Languages for Computer Music; Music Education; Sound conference just last year) perhaps this year, we will be Synthesis; Piece and Paper; and Artificial Intelligence able to prolong the decay of time a little bit in the City that and Music. Never Sleeps with a full week of concerts, papers, panels, workshops, and installation works throughout the Tae Hong Park and Michael Gogins city. The weeklong conference model is the result of Hubert Howe’s NYCEMF festival vision, which he has ICMC 2019 Paper Chairs been director since its inception. And this year, we fully embrace this model through the ICMC-NYCEMF partnership! This year, we also continue our partnership with the New York University (NYU) Libraries formally launching the Electro-Acoustic Music Mine (EAMM) project where we have begun to archive compositions and installation works presented at last year’s conference. This year marks our second year that is also part of the larger Computer Music Heritage program we initiated in Daegu; and we hope that we will soon be able to share and provide access to the archives in the months to come. 6 A NOTE FROM THE INSTALLATION CHAIRS The artistic and musical field that is computer music is a We are incredibly excited for this year’s conference and vast one that defies boundaries, conventions, and the opportunity to present these installation works. We norms. Much of the music and art created in our hope everyone will take the time to experience these community is inappropriate for the concert hall, as it works, wander around the city to find them, and exceeds the confines of such a presentational space. congratulate the artists who composed them. Acknowledging this, the installation track of the International Computer Music Conference provides a Andrew Telichan Phillips place for these works – which otherwise defy the parameters of the concert hall – an opportunity for Michael Musick inclusion, presentation, and appreciation by our ICMC 2019 Installation Chairs community. It is both invigorating and challenging to assist in the presentation of an ICMC back in New York City. However, the regrettable reality of this track is that the INTERNET RADIO space restrictions of this city allowed for only a small number of the overall impressive set of submissions. The INTERVIEW PROGRAM installations at this year’s conference represent just some of the compelling, interactive, and dynamic works The (Internet) Radio ProgRam was launched at the 2006 occurring in computer music outside the concert hall. ICMC by Tae Hong Park when he organized the ICMC at Tulane University in New Orleans. This ICMC radio Installations are a labor of love for both the artists and interview program was repeated at the 2018 ICMC in presenters. By virtue of being both decoupled from fixed Daegu, South Korea, and this year we are partnering time constraints, and expected to run continuously with Wave Farm and Harvestworks to do the NYC throughout the duration of the conference, they can often iteration. prove more complex that concert hall pieces. Unlike concert pieces, installation artists must be willing to bring Live audio streams from the ICMC are made possible by more equipment in order to present these pieces, set Wave Farm's Transmit Partner Program at their works up individually, and turn on and maintain www.wavefArm.org/listen and on the Wave Farm Radio them every day. App (iOS). Selected conference events will be broadcast live, or recorded for future broadcast, on Wave Farm's Taking into account the spaces and resources available WGXC 90.7-FM Radio for Open Ears in New York's to us, we determined that we could accept between 8 upper Hudson valley.
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