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Array Margaret Schedel and Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz, editors Jen Wang, designer Contents The International Computer Music Association Letter from the President .........................................................................................3 Mara Helmuth Officers President: Mara Helmuth ICMC 2007 Keynote Address ..................................................................................5 Vice President for Membership: Jennifer B. Merkowitz John Chowning Vice President for Conferences: Tae Hong Park Vice President for Asia/Oceania: Seongah Shin Vice President for the Americas: Gary Scavone Responses to Gender and Computer Music ...........................................................20 Vice President for Europe: Hugues Vinet Treasurer/Secretary: Chryssie Nanou An Interview with Tzvi Avni .................................................................................26 Array Editors: Margaret Schedel & Jennifer B. Merkowitz Bob Gluck Music Coordinator: Stephen David Beck Research Coordinator: Georg Essl Web Publications Coordinator: Hans Timmermans ICMC 2005 Reviews..............................................................................................31 ICMC 2006 Reviews..............................................................................................36 Board of Directors 2007-2008 ICMC 2007 Reviews..............................................................................................56 At-Large Directors Michael Alcorn Festival Reviews ....................................................................................................69 Richard Dudas Jacob Gotlib, BEAF Chryssie Nanou Jerónimo Rajchenberg, NWEAMO Tae Hong Park Americas Regional Directors The Future of the Concert Review .........................................................................75 Stephen David Beck Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz Andrew May Asia/Oceania Regional Directors Naotoshi Osaka CD Reviews ...........................................................................................................77 Nathan Wolek: Erdem Helvacioglu’s Altered Realities SeongAh Shin Jonathan Seiden: RedASLA: Red de Arte Sonoro Latinoamericano Europe Regional Directors Krystal Grant: Tanja Orning and Natasha Barrett’s Dr. OX Hans Timmermans Nathan Wolek: Bob Gluck’s Electric Brew Hugues Vinet Julio d’Escriván: Robert Normandeau’s Puzzles Non-Elected Positions ICMA Administrative Assistant: Sandra Neal Book Reviews ........................................................................................................92 Accounting: DeVera Long Kristian Twombly: Mary Simoni’s Analytical Methods of Electroacoustic Music ICMA Webmaster: Toine Heuvelmans Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz: Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner’s Women Composers and Technology in the United States Brendan Aanes: Gareth Loy’s Musimathics Volumes I and II Margaret Schedel: Simon Emmerson’s Living Electronic Music Lektrowsky’s Will ................................................................................................110 Max Mathews array Letter from the President Mara Helmuth 2007/2008 revision of the ICMA website. Toine If you have any questions, comments, or Heuvelmans, Margaret Schedel, Gary ideas about what ICMA should be doing, Letter from the President Scavone, Chryssie Nanou, and Hans please contact me, a board member, by Mara Helmuth Timmermans, as well as other directors, or the appropriate Vice President for May 30, 2008 have been involved with this project. your continent. I hope to see you all at Letter from the Editors ICMC 2008 Aug. 24-29. We are looking Dear ICMA members, Another project is the sponsorship of forward to a tremendous conference at the The Editors of Array are looking for member publication projects. In the fall, Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s interested persons to write articles and I want to thank you and the board before accepting this officer position, I University, Belfast. reviews for upcoming issues. The next issue of directors for the honor of serving was part of a group of women interested will be coming out in the spring of 2009 as President of the International in putting out a DVD of works by lesbian Sincerely, and a printed version with an ISDN will Computer Music Association, after composers. We were excited to work be available for purchase. If you would be holding positions as director for the with ICMA as our non-profit sponsor to Mara Helmuth willing to write something for Array, have Americas, newsletter editor and Vice obtain a grant for publication from Open ICMA President feedback about this issue or ideas for future President for Conferences. ICMA is Meadows. Full funding for the publication Associate Professor, Composition issues, please email us: array.journal@gmail. distinguished in the field because of of the DVD has since been obtained, Director, Center for Computer Music com. In your email, please give us your its international scope and its depth and the release by Kristine Burns and College-Conservatory of Music, name, mailing address, and any particular in presenting both current music Colby Leider at Everglade (http://www. University of Cincinnati areas of interest, so that we can send you any and research. The conferences have everglade.org/) is expected within a year. appropriate materials. If you have materials provided so many stimulating musical This type of sponsorship is beneficial you would like reviewed please send to: experiences as well as thought- both to the members involved and to the Dr. Margaret Schedel provoking paper sessions, panels and organization, which takes a percentage 3304 Staller Center Array discussions. I am happy to of the grant income for its sponsorship. SUNY Stony Brook contribute in this new role. Other members with such projects Stony Brook, NY 11794-5475 are invited to contact board members If you write a CD or book review, you will Perry Cook, our retiring President regarding non-profit organization be able to keep your review copy free of as of January, deserves our greatest sponsorship. charge. We look forward to hearing from appreciation. His contributions as you; the success of Array depends on input President from 2004-2007 resulted As always, future conference sites are of from its readers. in successful conferences each year interest to the organization. If you are in Miami, Barcelona, New Orleans considering hosting an ICMC, please Thank you, (despite Katrina!) and Copenhagen. We contact VP for Conferences Tae Hong Jennifer Bernard Merkowitz hope to see him every year. Park ([email protected]) and me (mara. Margaret Schedel [email protected]) for the new revised Current projects include the extensive guidelines. 3 4 array ICMC 2007 Keynote Address John Chowning 2007/2008 music technologies, both acoustic and expressed. Little was known about some analogue, computers require us to manage important aspects of perception and the ICMC 2007 Keynote Address INTRODUCTION detail to accomplish even the most basic acoustics of musical instruments. Max Fifty Years of Computer Music: steps. It is in the detail that we find control invited two important composers to work Ideas of the Past Speak to a Future In 1957, just fifty years ago, Max Mathews of the sonic, theoretical and creative forms. at BTL, both of whom made important Immersed in Rich Detail introduced a wholly new means of making And it is through paying attention to detail contributions in this area in addition to by John Chowning music. An engineer/scientist at Bell that we reveal our scientific/engineering creating compositions. They were James CCRMA Telephone Laboratories (BTL), Max (with insights or our artistic expression—our Tenney and Jean-Claude Risset. Department of Music the support of John Pierce, who was director own voice. Stanford University of research) created out of numbers and Preceding Max’s famous article by a few code the first music to be produced by a The first examples of computer-generated months was an article by Tenney that digital computer. It is usually the case that a music produced by Max Mathews and John described in exquisite detail the program fascination with some aspect of a discipline Pierce at BTL were rich in ideas, including that Max had created [8]. Tenney had ABSTRACT outside of one’s own will quickly conclude algorithmic composition, novel tuning, been invited by John Pierce and Max to with an experiment without elaboration. matching tuning systems to complementary work at BTL beginning in 1961. He had Two early uses of the computer to But in Max’s case, it was the beginning spectra, imaginative and compelling studied with the visionary Lejaren Hiller synthesize and process sound—additive of a profoundly deep and consequential graphics and visualizations and, soon at the University of Illinois, so he came and FM synthesis—led to new thoughts adventure. It was an adventure that he afterward, controllers [3]. It is fortunate prepared in matters of programming and about sound spectra, tuning and modestly invited us all to join through his that these two scientists/engineers—who stochastic processes in composition. During pitch. Detached from their traditional elegantly conceived programs, engendering cultivated a nexus between science and his three years at BTL, he made several association with the timbre of acoustic tendrils that found their way into far-flung art, and who invited composers and artists important contributions. He created instruments, spectra become structured disciplines that continue to grow without like Varèse and Cage to their laboratories