LEOMJ17_pp001-008.ps - 10/29/2007 8:43 AM CALARTSALARALAL RTT School of Music Multi–focuscus Music TechnologTechnologies (BFA) Composition Program (BFA, MFA) Experimental Sound Practices (MFA) Today’s music world offers a wide array of compositional tools for artists interested in exploring uncharted sonic domains. Increasingly, forward-looking composers and sound artists are turning to new forms emerging through sound installation, the digital studio, improvisation, interactive multimedia and acoustic experimentation—all of which are important additions to traditional compositional practices. More and more advanced musicmakers are able to traverse, and use to their artistic benefit, the traditional categorical oppositions between instrumental and electronic, digital and analog, theory and practice. Since its founding, the School of Music has been recognized as a leading center for contemporary composition. In keeping with this legacy, the Composition Program’s faculty features internationally acclaimed composers who cultivate a vibrant environment for intensive learning and bold experimentation. =[fc`ilhc[Chmncnon_i`nb_;lnm 00+(,//(+*/* ][f[lnm(_^o [^gcmm:][f[lnm(_^o 2007/2008 faculty includes: Michael Jon Fink: Composition Vinny Golia: Jazz Woodwinds/Composition Arthur Jarvinen: Composition Anne LeBaron: Composition, Theory Michael Pisaro: Co-Chair Composition and Experimental Sound Practices Sara Roberts: Experimental Sound Practices Barry Schrader: Composition David Rosenboom: Dean; Composition, NCP Conductor Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith: African American Improvisational Music, Trumpet, Composition Mark Trayle: Co-Chair Composition and Experimental Sound Practices Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/lmj.2007.17.7 by guest on 24 September 2021 LEOMJ17_pp001-008.ps - 10/29/2007 8:43 AM Leonardo on the Web Recent Content Highlights LEONARDO ON-LINE leonardo.info Events and Announcements Information on Leonardo/ISAST projects and publications, including: Find listings of events and activities of interest • Journal Special Projects: descriptions, calls for papers. to the art and technology community at: •Leonardo Book Series: titles, summaries and proposal guidelines. leonardo.info/whatsnew.html • Subscription and order information and links. • Information for prospective authors. 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Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/lmj.2007.17.7 by guest on 24 September 2021 LEOMJ17_pp001-008.ps - 10/29/2007 8:43 AM In This Issue of LMJ The presence of loss The feedback of his late father’s hearing aids drove the creation of John Wynne’s installation Hearing Loss. He reflects on exploring an absent space. full article on page 31 ➔ (Photo © Anne Walsh) Bows arts Jane Henry’s alternative bows and altered microchips allow her to be a one-woman band. She describes some of these custom creations and the noises they make. ➔ full article on page 41 (Image © Simon Biggs) Cloudy, with the chance of percussion Relying on a backyard weather monitor, Richard Garrett keeps up a project converting atmospheric data into musical phrases. full article on page 32 ➔ (Photo © Louise K. Wilson) Inside the box James Fei tinkered with STEIM’s Crackle Box, making it more adapt- able in performance. Take a look inside the works. ➔ full article on page 38 (Photo © Sue Clites) CD INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE OF LMJ: The Art of the Gremlin: Inventive Musicians, Curious Devices The LMJ CD The Art of the Gremlin, curated by Sarah Washington, presents record- ings by Dan Wilson, NotTheSameColor, Rotted Orange, Kunst.ruch.ter, Owl Pro- ject, Norbert Möslang, Moshi Honen, Grace and Delete, Haco, Leonardo Di Crappio, Ferran Fages, Oscillatorial Binnage, Børre Mølstad, Rhodri Davies, Knut Aufermann and Tetsuo Kogawa, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Ivan Palacky. ©2007 ISAST Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/lmj.2007.17.7 by guest on 24 September 2021 LEOMJ17_pp001-008.ps - 10/29/2007 8:43 AM CALL FOR PAPERS LMJ 18: Why Live? Performance in the Age of Digital Reproduction Downloads and file exchanges have altered the economics of music of consumption, but have they also rendered the concert hall obsolete? Or have the isolation of ear buds and the ephemerality of digital files actually served to highlight the social significance and sweaty substantiality of live performance? Or are we witnessing the birth of a new “live,” virtually social but vitally sweat-free? For LMJ 18 we solicit writing on the significance or irrelevance of contemporary performance practice and its alternatives. DEADLINES 1 January 2008: Final texts and all materials to the LMJ Editorial Office. Contact Nicolas Collins <[email protected]> with proposals and questions. ANNOUNCEMENT Leonardo Celebrates Leonardo da Vinci Special Section of Leonardo, 2008 In celebration of Leonardo journal’s 40th anniversary, we are publishing essays related to Leonardo da Vinci and his concerns regarding the relationship between art and science. In the upcoming special section, Leonardo’s own concerns serve as a springboard for looking toward the present. What, building upon Leonardo’s ways of thinking, can artists and scientists tell each other today? Accounts of Leonardo’s visual art, of his achievements as a proto-scientist and of the relation between his concerns with science and with visual art are also highlighted in articles guest-edited by David Carrier over the coming year. Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/lmj.2007.17.7 by guest on 24 September 2021 LEOMJ17_pp001-008.ps - 10/29/2007 8:43 AM MUSIC JOURNAL Volume 17 2007 JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE ARTS, SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY MY FAVORITE THINGS: THE JOY OF THE GIZMO Introduction HANS W. KOCH: Computers as Musical Instruments? From computermusic I NICOLAS COLLINS: My Favorite Things: <exploded view> to bandoneonbook 46 The Joy of the Gizmo 7 KAZUHIRO JO: Transition of an Instrument: Articles and Notes The aeo Sound Performance Project 46 BERT BONGERS: Electronic Musical Instruments: LAURA EMELIANOFF: The Transfigured Experiences of a New Luthier 9 Instrument: Player Piano 48 ERIC LEONARDSON: The Springboard: The Joy MARC BERGHAUS: Simulated Chance and of Piezo Disk Pickups for Amplified Coil Springs 17 Staggered Gear Ratios 49 DAVID TOOP: Rush Pep Box 21 BRUCE CANA FOX: Drum Circle Instruments 50 PETER BLASSER: Pretty Paper Rolls: