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DVD Program Notes DVD Program Notes Disc One, Part One: Wide and sounds associated with Latin Ameri- The macro-, meso-, and micro-event Far—Robert Gluck, Tae Hong can dance forms. In the opening spaces generated by the application Park, Lonce Wyse, Curators movement, I wanted the hints of pase form a continuous hierarchical struc- doble to imitate the aggressive kicks ture which is transformed in real- and flicks of the feet, and the flaring time by changing parameters that gestures in circular spatial move- range between deterministic behav- ments, dramatically driving forward ior to stochastic disorder. The calcu- Curators’ Note toward blunt stops, to represent the lated meso-event structure has been lunges and poses so typical of Argen- transcribed for two percussion instru- For this issue of Computer Music tinian tango. The second movement, ments, tambour en bois and Turkish Journal, we have curated a collection more intimate in character, is the bender, performed by Roland Auzet. of electroacoustic music works reso- most abstract of the four miniatures, This performance is then fed back as nant with the theme “Wide and Far.” because many of the sounds do not live audio to the Cosmos application, It was our goal to showcase global di- retain their identity. Sounds are grad- creating a ghost image between the versity and works by composers born ually layered upon one another to percussion score and electronic or active in regions beyond Europe form crescendos that erupt into new sounds. This ghost is rendered within and North America. We sought to in- sound worlds. macro- and micro-event spaces. The clude, albeit not exclusively, music integration of the layers of percussion from emerging regions and cultures, Manuella Blackburn earned a Mas- in the meso-structure, between regions where electroacoustic music ter’s degree with Distinction in macro- and meso-spaces of synthetic has been somewhat underrepresented electroacoustic music at the Univer- sounds, provides an organic interac- in the repertoire, and also composi- sity of Manchester (UK) in 2006, tion and integrity among the four- tions that represented an engagement where she was awarded the Peter J. channel surround projection. The with a composer’s culture or identity. Leonard Composition Prize. She has work received its world premiere at The works selected represent compo- since begun a PhD at the University Is Sanat Hall in Istanbul in 2005, and sitions created since 1 January 2000, of Manchester, studying under David it was subsequently performed at the and span the traditional “tape music” Berezan. Her acousmatic work International Computer Music Con- genre, live electronic performance Causal Impacts won First Prize in ference 2006, in New Orleans, with traditional acoustical instru- the 7th Musica Viva Electroacoustic Louisiana, USA. ments, and multimedia, including Competition 2006 in Portugal and video, dance, or robotics. We hope was a Finalist in the 2006 Bourges In- Sinan Bokesoy, born in Turkey, com- that you will enjoy these wonderful ternational Electroacoustic Music pleted a degree in electronics and pieces. and Sonic Arts Competition. Sonidos communication engineering at Istan- Bailables won the Public Prize in the bul Technical University. He has also 2006 Concurso Internacional de studied classical music composition 1. Sonidos Bailables [Sounds to Composicai eletroacoustica and piano. In the late 1990s, a devel- dance to]—Manuella (CEMJKO) in Brazil. Her work has oping interest in electronic music led Blackburn (Music) been published on the Pueblo Nuevo Mr. Bokesoy to study on his own and Chilean net label, and also short- compose his first tape music pieces. This group of four acousmatic minia- listed for the media showcase in the He participated in the yearlong course tures grew out of research and find- current Noise Arts Festival taking at the Centre for the Composition of ings I presented in a January 2006 place around the UK. Music “Iannis Xenakis” (CCMIX), paper concerning the incorporation of Paris, in 2001, and subsequently has Latin American influences in electro- become active internationally as a re- acoustic music. What remained with 2. Imprints—Sinan Bokesoy searcher and composer. His papers me from this study was the idea of (Music) have been published or presented in the “cultural sound object,” which I Computer Music Journal, Digital incorporated within these minia- Imprints is the first compositional re- Audio Effects (DAFX) 2004–2006, tures. I composed the work in 5.1 sult of my algorithmic sound- ICMC 2005–2006, and Journées surround-sound format to enhance synthesis application Cosmos, a d’Informatique Musicale (JIM) 2003– the energy naturally possessed by complex event-generation system. 2005, and his compositions have 102 Computer Music Journal Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/comj.2007.31.4.102 by guest on 30 September 2021 been performed at CCMIX, Groupe Schick, Vibeke Sorensen, and Hos- rotation techniques to achieve visual de Recherches Musicales (GRM), sein Omoumi. His music is played coherence. The scenes are organized New Interfaces for Musical Expres- internationally and he is one of the to represent the life and death of sion (NIME) 2004, ICMC 2005–2006, founders and directors of Kereshmeh flowers, signifying the endless cycle and elsewhere. In 2005, Mr. Bokesoy Records and Persian Arts Society. of birth, age, illness, and the death of began a collaboration with Roland Mr. Yadegari currently heads the all creatures. In the music, sound Auzet, composing for presentations Sound Design program at the Theatre samples of water droplets, a tradi- across France. His recent research has and Dance department at the Univer- tional Chinese bamboo flute, and a focused on self-evolutionary macro- sity of California at San Diego. Chinese zither are processed using sound structures. He will complete convolution and granular synthesis Yolande Snaith is a choreographer of his PhD in 2007, under the direction to create a dreamy ambiance, to sym- several internationally performed of Horacio Vaggione. bolize fleeting and illusionary life. award-winning works. Yolande Snaith Also, pentatonic scales are used to Theatredance has won the Prix create the mysterious impression of D’auteur du Conseil Generale de la 3. Garden of Lila—Shahrokh oriental religion and philosophical Seine-Saint-Denise for No Respite thinking. Yadegari (Music); Yolande (1992) and Blind Faith (1998). She has Snaith (Dance); Tara Knight choreographed more than fifteen full- Chien-Wen Cheng received his Mas- (Animation) length works and created the chore- ters Degree in Music Composition ography for Stanley Kubrick’s film, and Theory from the National Chau- The dance performance Garden of Eyes Wide Shut. Ms. Snaith is cur- Tung University in Taiwan and is Lila, based on my musical composi- rently on the faculty of Theatre and currently a doctoral candidate in Mu- tion Migration, is a poetic journey Dance at the University of California sic Composition at the University of through the emotional, imaginative, at San Diego. and philosophical terrain of writer North Texas, where his teachers have Forough Farrokhzad. One of only a Tara Knight is a filmmaker, anima- included Andrew May, Cindy McTee, handful of women who gained renown tor, and projection designer. She has Phil Winsor, and Joseph Rovan. He during the past 2,500 years of Persian worked on films by Oscar award- has won numerous awards for his literary history, Farrokhzad gave winning animator Faith Hubley, in- acoustic music in Taiwan including voice to women in a society strug- cluding Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the Fine Arts Creation Award (2003, gling with change, and her later po- and the forthcoming feature, Tactic 2006), the 3rd Percussion Music etry began to address broader issues Toe. Ms. Knight has directed several Composing Competition (2005), 2004 of human rights and the environ- short films and is currently a lecturer Taiwanese Young Composers Master- ment. Inspired by her work, Garden for the Theatre and Dance Depart- pieces Competition, 2002 orchestral of Lila interweaves music, dance, and ment, and the Digital Literacy Coor- competition in the Tune in to Tai- animated moving backdrops to evolve dinator for Sixth College, at the wan—Taiwan Composers Series, and a poetic language of movement, ges- University of California at San Diego. the 2000 Hakka Vocal Music Compo- ture, rhythm, spatial configurations, sition Contest. His electroacoustic and theatrical imagery. The excerpt pieces have also been performed at included documents a section be- 4. Samsara—Chien-Wen Cheng Bourges Synthèse Festival, Society for tween moments of spoken poetry. (Music/Video) Electro-Acoustic Music of the United Migration is a recorded structured States (SEAMUS), ICMC, Bellingham improvisation joining the realms of Samsara means “cycle of existence” Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF), Santa Persian traditional music and elec- in Buddhism, a tradition in which life Fe Festival of Electro-Acoustic Mu- tronic music. It is a mixture of virtu- is viewed as but an illusion (maya), sic, Spark Festival (Minnesota), Pri- osic violin playing (performed by and the material world is a place frag- mavera en La Habana (Cuba), and Keyavash Nourai) and complex live mented and constantly changing Most Significant Bytes (Ohio). His electronic processing. through the repeated processes of for- tape music works Under the Sea and mation, existence, destruction, and Samadhi won the first prize in the Shahrokh Yadegari, composer, pro- emptiness. In the accompanying National On-line Arts Creativity ducer, and sound designer, has collab- video, footage of flowers is repeated Competition in Taiwan (2005 and orated with Peter Sellars, Steven using distortion, repositioning, and 2006, respectively). His current DVD Program Notes 103 Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/comj.2007.31.4.102 by guest on 30 September 2021 studies include intermedia and real- electroacoustic composition at Aris- new form of visual art exploring the time interactive music composition.
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