Current Work at YalMusT, Yale University's Music and Technology Center Professor Kathryn Alexander, Director; Professor Matthew Suttor, Associate Director Email:
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[email protected] http://www.yale.edu/yalemus/yalmust Abstract YalMusT, Yale University's Music and Technology Center is a new environment at Yale University for research, performance, and pedagogy in music, video and technology. This report provides an introduction and an overview of the facilities and equipment, software tools, creative work, curricular projects, course offerings, concerts and demonstrations, and WWW sites that comprise the activities at YalMusT. 1 Introduction couples the suite of general software tools with more advanced development and research tools. YalMusT, Yale University's Music and Technology Center opened in the fall of 1998. The Center services a variety of Studio B10 is an advanced interactive and mastering studio constituencies (undergraduates, graduate students, staff and comprised of a single G4 (gray) workstation, a keyboard faculty) and functions in tandem with Yale's Digital Media controller, an Akai EWI wind controller, a Zeta Jazz violin Center for the Arts and Center for Academic Media and controller, the software-based Very Nervous System, and an Technology. Those working at YalMusT focus on the I-Cube controller with sensors. Mastering and post- creative interaction between music, video and technology production software tools, mixer, microphones, speakers, a and the research, performance and pedagogical impact of DVD-ram drive, and cassette, video and DAT recorders that focus.