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1 22000099 -- 22001100 2009 - 2010 2009 - 2010 20172009 -- 20182010 2 array special 2017/2018 Christopher Haworth, editor Jen Wang, designer Contents The International Computer Music Association Letter from the Guest Editors ..................................................................................5 Patricia Alessandrini & Shelly Knotts Officers President (interim): Tae Hong Park Not All Ideas are the Same ......................................................................................7 Vice President for Membership: Michael Gurevitch Patricia Alessandrini Vice President for Conferences: Rob Hamilton Pauline Oliveros at ICMC Re-Visited: Technology and the Self ..........................15 Vice President for Asia/Oceania: - Maria Chavez & Seth Cluett Vice President for the Americas: Eric Honour Vice President for Europe: Stephania Serafin Featured Article: Notating electronics ...................................................................20 Vice President for Preservation: Tae Hong Park Cat Hope Music Coordinator: PerMagnus Lindborg Research Coordinator: Christopher Haworth Conversation I: Muyassar Kurdi & Verónica Mota ...............................................27 Array Editor: Christopher Haworth Marlo DeLara Publications Coordinator: Tom Erbe Artists Statements I: ...............................................................................................37 Treasurer/Secretary: Chryssie Nanou Nur Eram Board of Directors 2018 Sisters Akousmatica At-Large Directors Emah Fox Miriam Akkermann Conversation II: Rebecca Fiebrink & Laetitia Sonami ..........................................53 Mark Ballora Patricia Alessandrini John Thompson Americas Regional Directors Artists Statements II: ..............................................................................................60 Eric Honour Mari Kimura Charles Nichols Paula Matthusen Asia/Oceania Regional Directors Silvia Rosani Takeyoshi Mori Europe Regional Directors Conversation III: Pamela Z & Atau Tanaka ..........................................................69 Stefania Serafin Arshia Cont Artists Statements III: ............................................................................................76 Joanne Armitage Non-Elected Positions Amble Skuse ICMA Administrative Assistant: Sandra Neal Annie Goh Review: Is Marcus Schmickler’s Palace of Marbles a Radical Political Album? ...90 Robin Buckley 3 4 array special Letter from the Guest Editors Patricia Alessandrini & Shelly Knotts 2010/20112017/2018 one-day symposium entitled Taking statements address individual approaches representation, interpretation, Space: Women in Electronic at Durham to computer music and include live perception and memory. She performs Letter from the Guest Editors University bringing together a cross- coding, electronica, radio transmission, research on embodied interaction, by Patricia Alessandrini & Shelly section of female sound artists based in installation work, and other genres. including instrument design for inclusive We also included three conversation Knotts the north of the UK to discuss their work, performance. She was recently appointed practice and perspectives on the field. transcripts using a non-hierarchical Associate Professor at Stanford University Instrumental in the direction of the issue approach to interrogate diverse This issue of ICMA Array focusses on / the Center for Computer Research in was the roundtable discussion which took perspectives on working practices, in practice-based perspectives in electronic Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). place at this event, where we discussed addition to features and reviews. The first and computer music through the lens of going beyond individual ‘female role of these is a tribute to Pauline Oliveros, intersectional feminism and a generally Shelly Knotts explores interaction with models’ and ‘pioneers’ and considered to whom this issue of Array is dedicated, inclusive outlook. It features artists and through algorithms through projects structural changes needed to develop a from two artists who worked closely with from six continents, as well as work involving live coding, computer networks gender-balanced field where the work of her, Maria Chavez and Seth Cluett. which is not generally considered as and data sonification. Her work often has women is considered on equal standing the mainstream in academic computer At a point in time where the importance political motivations, exploring the shifting to the work of men. We discussed how music – such as electronica and DIY of inclusiveness in computer music dynamics of collaboration when mediated – as well as involving more women in approaches – alongside some of the is gradually being acknowledged, we by layers of computer technology and organisational and managerial capacities leading voices in the field. hope this issue shines a light on the algorithmic process. In early 2017 she – this may include expanding definitions underrepresented voices; beyond this was Leverhulme Artist-in-Residence In order to ensure the issue reflected and broadening the type of work which is goal, we set out to challenge the field at Newcastle University, School of current concerns among female accepted as the mainstream of computer to progress in accepting more diverse Chemistry, and she is currently a Research computer musicians and other under- music. Part of our approach here has perspectives on what it means to make Fellow at Monash University, Melbourne, represented groups in the field, we been to directly address this, by seeking to music with digital technology. We set out working on the project ‘Improvisational sought to gather perspectives from represent the diversity of approaches to a vision of the future of computer music, Interfaces’. Her music is available from those around us working on these music-making explored by women, which which as well as moving forwards, also Fractal Meat and Chordpunch labels. issues in the UK prior in addition to may currently be underrepresented in the expands outwards to people and practices distributing an international call. This field. at the fringes of the field, and re-centres [1] Sonic Cyberfeminisms was convened involved attending events such as Sonic In addressing the breadth of practice in and renews itself around and through by Dr Marie Thompson, University Cyberfeminisms in Lincoln [1] and the field we include writing in a number these practices. Lincoln, & Annie Goh. participating in the organisation of of formats. Nine artist statements emerged Women in Sound/Women on Sound [2] WISWOS was founded by Dr from the open call that we publicised Patricia Alessandrini is a composer/ (WISWOS) – London [2] events at Linda O’Keefe. Its London branch was internationally. Through this open call, sound artist creating compositions, Goldsmiths and the Activating Inclusive coordinated by Dr Lisa Busby, 2015-17. we intended to highlight work created by installations, and performance situations Sound Spaces (AISS) symposium [3] The AISS symposium team was led women and gender non-binary artists, and which are for the most part multimedia at Huddersfield [3]. We also ran a by Dr Elizabeth Dobson, who is also the work which addresses power relationships and interactive. Through these works, she founder of the Yorkshire Sound Women and gender-related oppression both within engages with questions of Network the field and in society at large. These 55 66 array special Not All Ideas Are The Same Patricia Alessandrini 2017/2018 of workplace harassment, while socially This dissemination of prejudice and fired the memo’s author for ‘championing and politically committed researchers and misinformation profited cultural scientific research’. Critics were on the Not All Ideas Are The Same: creatives such as Luke DuBois massively hegemony by shifting the discourse defensive, charged with the obligation Challenging dominant shared take-downs of it, including an rightward, comfortably away from to ‘wrestle’ with its content, thereby discourses and re-imaging excellent piece by Yonatan Zunger, the consideration of means to necessitating a wave of articles setting computer music research himself a former senior Googler. achieve political and social justice, the record straight, by reaffirming the such as reparations or fundamental cultural causes [7], recounting women’s That night, I went to bed hopeful that by Patricia Alessandrini redistribution of institutional roles in historical place in coding [8] and the shift the memo might serve as a means of the cases of post-colonial relations and from female to male labour [9] parallel bringing the problem of workplace At the time I am writing this, it has discriminatory hiring and workplace to gains in renumeration and status [10], discrimination and harassment to the been just over a month since the practices respectively. This example of and debunking the memo’s pseudo- fore - as unfortunate as it was that Google infamous ‘Google manifesto’ leaked the formation of hegemonic discourse science [11]. It was arguably useful to employees needed to experience it in [1], so the first reactions to it are provides a cautionary example for our have these social and historical points re- order for that conversation to happen still fresh in my mind. The leaking own technological field of how discourses affirmed - although none of this was new - and maybe even lead to questioning of this ‘bizarre and offensive’ [2] contributing to discrimination are re- information - but I found this last point widely-held misconceptions