ACMC 2003
Australasian Computer Music Association Conference 2003
incorporating the e*mergence New Media Series and Soundwork Exhibition
Theme: Converging Technologies
Conference: 5th - 7th July, 2003
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University Mount Lawley, Western Australia
e*mergence New Media Series: July 8-12 Perth Institute for Contemporary
Arts, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge
Technology Workshops:
8-11 July, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan
University, Mount Lawley,Western Australia
Contents
Australasian Computer Music Conference 2003 Fees
About ACMA
The Australasian Computer Music Association was founded in 1989. The organisation provides a forum for new compositions, information sharing, and research about music technology and computer music throughout principally New Zealand and Australia. Its membership includes composers, performers, educators, researchers and others with an interest any aspect of the many forms of electronic music. ACMA's activities include an annual conference, the occasional newsletter Chroma, and locally organised events such as concerts and seminars.
The Australian Computer Music Conference is an annual event that has been held in Australia or New Zealand in association with the Australasian Computer Music Association since 1993. It is a fully-refereed conference with published proceedings. Last year's conference accepted 27 papers and 30 music performances. Between 120 and150 people from Australia, New Zealand, The United States, France, Singapore and Pacific Islands attended either a presentation or performance. The attendees and presenters represented a nearly every Higher Education Institution in the region.
The Conference will present research and concerts that focus on the convergence of audio, visual and mechanical technologies. Recent times have seen a rapidly increasing convergence of technologies in the Electronic Arts. The conference will seek to gauge the impact that artists crossing the media boundaries (ie composers becoming videographers, dancers becoming composers etc) is having on the practice of electronic music. It also seeks to highlight developments in the field of live computer music including interaction, improvisation and non-linear works, with an emphasis on the impact this is having upon form, practice and presentation.
Relevant sub-themes include: the nexus between music, computers, image and movement; recent software and tool developments; Formal innovations that are the result of composition and performance projects where multiple media are intrinsic to the project; theory, criticism and listening involving computers, music, image and movement.
* The conference will include concerts, paper sessions, artist talks, discussion panels and studio reports.
Gil Weinberg (USA)
Gil Weinberg is a member of the Hyperinstrument group at MIT Media Laboratory. His research centers on designing musical networks for group collaboration with a special focus on devices and applications for novices and children. His publications appear in Computer Music Journal, Leonardo Music Journal, and Personal Technologies and in conference proceedings such as ICMC, CIM and CHI. He has been commissioned to compose and develop workshops and installations by orchestras, art exhibitions, and festivals worldwide. His work has been featured at Ars Electronica, the Smithsonian Museum, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, the National Irish Symphony Orchestra and the Scottish BBC Symphony Orchestra, among others. Before coming to MIT Mr. Weinberg founded Sense Multimedia and served as the director of product design at MusicNotes, where he was responsible for the development of a number of influential music software packages. He received his MS in media arts and sciences from MIT and his B.A. majoring in music, arts, and computer science from Tel Aviv University, where he founded the electronic music studio in the musicology department and developed the electronic music curriculum.
Bernard Parmegiani: (FRANCE)
Parmegiani entered the Group of Musical Research in 1959 where he studied electroacoustic music under Pierre Schaeffer. Programmed in international festivals and concerts on throughout the world he has been awarded the Prix de l'Académie du Disque Français (1979); Prix de la SACEM (1981); Les Victoires de la Musique (1990); and the Prix «Magister» au Concours International de Bourges (1991). His work has expanded from the traditional world of Musique Concrete to include video art in works such as: The Eye listens (1973), Jeux of artifices (1979) and the transparent Screen (1973). He also been involved in the nexus* between improvisation techniques and electroacoustic music through work with various free jazz groups: J-L Chautemps, B Vitet, Michel Portal and Popular musc groups such as* The Third Ear Band and Air. Ensemble-in-Residence: Blisters (AUS) Blisters is Australia's first ensemble of interactive-electroacoustic instrument builders. The quintet boasts nearly 100 years worth of collective experience in this area and its members have been building instruments, composing and improvising since the 1970s.* Automatic violins, thinking-instruments, modified instruments, LightHarps, giant Laser lyres, real air and sensorlab guitars, microtonal instruments, installations, Leather serpents and retro-radio style objects are just some of music making machines you would expect to experience at any given Blisters event. Blisters is Jon Rose, Rainer Linz, Tom Fryer, Joanne Cannon and Stuart Favilla.* The ensemble aims to explore 21st Century music-making through instrument development, behaviour, interaction, group-improvisation, production and performance.
Australasian Computer Music Conference 2003 Fees
Early Registration - $210.00 [27.06.2003]
Late Registration - $235.00 [04.07.03]
On-Site Registration - $255.00
Early Student Registration - $55.00
On-Site Student - $80.00
Sponsors
WAAPA@ECU
Edith Cowan University
Alliance Francaise
Perth Institute for Contemporary Arts
Tura Events Company
Music Park
Australia Council (Blisters Tour)
Conference Program
Saturday July 5
From 8.30 - Conference Check in and Coffee
09.45 - Conference Welcome
Session I: Convergent Technologies I
10.00 - Roger Alsop: Compositional Processes in Developing Poly-Media Performance Works
10.20 - Christine McCombe: An Opera of Clouds: Time and Space in mixed media performance
10.40 - Lindsay Vickery: Non-linear structures for real-time interactive musical works
11.00 - Questions
11.20-12.00 - Morning Break
Session II: Convergent Technologies II
12.00 - Jonathan Mustard: Aesthetics in Sight-to-Sound Technology and Artwork: "Why do we do it?"
12.20 - Jon Burtt and Katie Lavers: Skadada: The creation and development of* multi-artform performance
12.30 - Cat Hope: Skirting the square screen
12.40 - Questions
13.00-14.00 Lunch Break
Session III: Installation Work and New Instruments I
14.00 - Hannah Clemen: Interfaces for Public Use Interactive Installations: Some Design Concepts, Problems and Possible Solutions
14.20 - Cat Hope: A Wardrobe of D.A.C.S- The Development of an Interactive Garment
14.40 - Donna Hewitt: EMIC - Compositional experiments and real-time mapping issues in performance
15.00 - Steve Adam: Recent approaches to the Design of Interactive Music Systems for Performance and Installation
15.10 - Questions
15.30 End of Paper Saturday Sessions
20.00 - Concert I: WAAPA Music Auditorium
Works by Hewitt, Burke, Adam, Monro, Waters, Bright, Hope, Collison, Kersten, Heckenberg and Vickery.
Sunday July 6
From 9.30 Coffee and reception
Session IV: Other Issues I
10.00 - Ross Bencina: PortAudio and Media Syncronisation - It's All in the Timing
10.20 - Stuart James: Possibilities for Dynamical Wave Terrain Synthesis
10.40 - Peter McIlwain and Paul Doornbusch: Integrating Spatial Parameters in Musical Composition
11.00 - Questions
11.20-12.00 Morning Break
Session V: Other Issues II
12.00 - David Hirst: Developing a cognitive framework for the interpretation of acousmatic music
12.20 - Rene Wooller: A Brief Analysis of Club Drum and Bass: Compositional Structures and Sonic Forms
12.40 - Questions
Lunch 13.00-14.00
Session VI: Installation Work and New Instruments II
14.00 - Andrew Brown: Australasian Digital Instrument Building
14.20 - Greg Jenkins: Artist Talk: Intimate Transactions
14.30 - Angelo Fraietta: Incremental sound installation development using the Smart Controller
14.50 - Anne Norman: The Bell Garden - an electro-acoustic power pole bell installation
15.00 - Questions
15.30 - End of Paper Sunday Sessions
20.00 - Concert II: WAAPA Music Auditorium
Works by Adam, Monro, Clemen, Knowles, James, Sazdov and Schneider.
Monday July 7
From 9.30 Coffee and reception
Session VII: ACMA AGM and Studio Reports
10.00 -Greg Jenkins: Studio report: QUT studio report - A room full of Emacs
10.10 - Lindsay Vickery: Studio Report: ECU - Studio for Research in Performance Technology 02-03
10.20 - Australasian Computer Music Association: General Meeting
Break Lunch 12.30-14.00
Session Session VIII: Visiting Artists and Keynote address
14.00 - Key Note Address (followed by Questions) Gil Weinberg: Interconnected Musical Networks - Bringing Expression and Thoughtfulness to Collaborative Group Playing
15.00 - Visiting Artist Talk (followed by Questions) Bernard Parmegiani: The theory and practise of electroacoustic music
16.00 - Australasian Computer Music Conference 2003 Closing Performance followed by drinks:
Anne Norman Bell Garden
20.00 Concert III:
Bernard Parmegiani: de natura sonorum and works by Hirst and Monro.
Andrew Brown: Jmusic Workshops
Tuesday July 8, 2.00-4.00 pm
Wednesday July 9, 2.00-4.00 pm
WAAPA@ECU MIDI Lab 1.220a
jMusic is a project designed to provide composers and software
developers with a library of compositional and audio processing tools.
It provides a solid framework for computer-assisted composition in Java,
and is also used for generative music, instrument building, interactive
performance, and music analysis.
Gil Wienberg: HyperScore
Thursday July 10 2.00-4.00 pm
Thursday July 10 2.00-4.00 pm
WAAPA@ECU MIDI Lab
Hyperscore is an application introducing children and non-musicians to
musical composition and creativity in an intuitive and dynamic way. The
Hyperscore system automatically realizes a full composition from a
graphical representation, allowing individuals with no musical training
to create professional pieces.
PICA
Wednesday July 09
on the Laptop
Works by Alsop, Morgan, James, Jenkins
Thursday July 10
with acoustic Instruments
Works by Alsop Morgan, Fryer James, Mustard, Rose and Vickery
Friday11
Music and Video
Works by Alsop Favilla, Cannon, Mustard, Vouris, Vickery 10m
Saturday12
Blisters:* Interactive-electroacoustic instrument performed by* Jon
Rose, Rainer Linz, Tom Fryer, Stuart Favilla and Joanne Cannon.
Further Information
Further announcements with details of registration, submission dates and procedures, accommodation options, website address and so on will be posted in the near future.
Lindsay Vickery <l.vickery@cowan.edu.au>
studio for research in performance technology
0893706826
WAAPA@ECU
2 Bradford St
Mount Lawley
6050