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RECENT RESEARCH/ARTISTIC PROJECTS
RECENT PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS
Paula Matthusen, Christopher Ariza
RESONANCE: Steel Pan in the 21st Century CD
release!!!
http://www.quietdesign.us/1901.html
Ariza, C. 2007.
"Automata Bending: Applications of Dynamic Mutation and Dynamic Rules
in Modular One-Dimensional Cellular Automata." Computer Music
Journal 31(1).
Christopher Ariza
"Beyond the Transition Matrix: A Language-Independent, String-Based
Input Notation for Incomplete, Multiple-Order, Static Markov Transition
Values."
LINK
Elizabeth Hoffman
"Allamuchy" on NEUMA Electroacoustic Music VII
http://www.neumarecords.com/
RECENT PERFORMANCES/RECORDINGS
Felipe Lara
Corde Vocale
Performed by the Arditti Quartet - Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan,
Ralf Ehlers, and Lucas Fels
The Subject gains access to bliss by the cohabitation of languages
working side by side: the text of pleasure is a sanctioned Babel.
-Roland Barthes,"The Pleasure of the Text" (1973)
Corde Vocale - String Quartet #1 was composed from November 20th to
December 28th of 2005. In this work, Lara explored the very personal
subject matter of multilingual systems. Having left his native Brazil
ten years prior and lived in five cities in three distinct countries,
thoughts and ideas come to him in various languages and they remain in
that particular idiom without necessarily having to be translated to
the "mothertongue" Portuguese in order to disperse their fullest
content.
Similar processes occur in this work, only now language becomes a
metaphor for style/genre - or even more specifically certain techniques
associated with them. The three musical languages Lara refers to in
this piece are what Mobile (intervallic permutations of musical
objects), Electro-Acoustic (noise, spectral, timbre/harmony,
modulations), and Tonecolor/ Gesture. He does not intend to create
eclectic juxtapositions or stylistic superimpositions, but rather to
negotiate the otherness of each distinct style, and to unify radically
distinct musical syntaxes. This open-sesame of Babel opens otherwise
impossible connections and along with them creates new compositional
problems. The often discussed issues in contemporary music regarding
the lack of a supposedly lost musical lingua-franca are not to be taken
lightly (from musical notation/performance to aesthetics), however
those asymmetrical networks instigated by multi-lingual
incompatibilities create extremely fruitful perforations on his musical
discourse. The title would translate to 'vocal chords' in English, but
in Italian (similarly in Spanish and Portuguese) would to 'vocal
strings'.
The work was composed with the help of sound analysis and
computer-assisted-composition programs (Audio Sculpt and OpenMusic
respectively).
OTHER RESEARCH
Christopher Ariza
Post-Ut
a free, on-line, web-based ear training system. Rather than focusing on
ear-training techniques based on common practice Western music, Post-Ut
teaches the language and metrics of sound and sonological study.
athenaCL
modular, polyphonic, poly-paradigm algorithmic music
composition in a cross-platform interactive command-line environment.
The athenaCL system is an open-source, object-oriented composition
tool written in Python. The system can be scripted and embedded, and
includes integrated instrument libraries, post-tonal and microtonal
pitch modeling tools, multiple-format graphical outputs, and musical
output in Csound, MIDI, audio file, XML, and text formats.
algorithmic.net
a lexicon of systems and research in algorithmic / computer
aided-composition
This site provides a comprehensive resource for computer aided
algorithmic music composition, including over one-thousand research
listings, over one hundred system listings, cross referenced links to
research, links to software downloads and documentation, and web-
based tools for searching and filtering the complete lexicon.
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