Archive for January, 2007

A Visit to the Seoul International Computer Music Festival

The Seoul International Computer Music Festival (SICMF) is a yearly event sponsored by the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society (KEAMS). Having both concerts and a post-festival paper session, it is in some ways similar to the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), reviewed elsewhere on the Cycling ’74 website. However, because it is a festival, not a conference, the main focus of the SICMF is the music – and to provide both the local Korean computer music community and the invited international guests with a fertile cross-cultural environment for sharing musical ideas.

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Getting Around in Radial

I’ve been asked to write a couple of articles that discuss how I learned radiaL, and how I approach using it in a live performance setting — both as a soloist and in an ensemble setting. While there are a good number of people out there who use radiaL, I’m surprised to discover that there are not nearly as many people who do what I do — namely, to walk out on a stage, launch the program, and start improvising. While it seems a perfectly natural thing to do from my point of view, it may not necessarily be clear how I learned radiaL and came to my current performance practice (In addition to Voiceband Jilt, my release for c74 records, you can also find some downloadable examples of my work on my downloads page and some online release material from the label Palace of Lights).

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C74 Tries Marketing to Kids (and Soccer Moms)

With an enigmatic name that refers to a specific time and activity of questionable relationship to the organization’s actual purpose, Cycling ’74 has received its share of athletic sponsorship requests during its nine year history. Typically these have been bicycle tours or related events, and after careful consideration, we have rejected all of them. However, when I received an urgent call from the coach of my son Bruno’s soccer team saying that they were flirting with disqualification for lack of a sponsor, our corporate policy of exhaustive review (involving multiple levels of committee meetings) was carelessly discarded in order to seize the opportunity to market advanced audio and video software products to sports-minded 11-year-old boys and what we hoped would be their easily influenced parents.

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Those Invalid Objects are Back

Voiceband Jilt, the CD of my work released on the c74 label last year, took as its source material a set of recordings called the “Invalid Object” series. It was a project of the Irish label Fällt, originally released in the form of 24 3″ CDs, each of which took their title from one of the “reserved words” in Java. The liner notes for the CD included a weblink to a location for the original recordings in MP3 format, in the hopes that you’d go and find the original material that inspired me so. However, the Fällt website was down for redesign and retooling for quite a lot of the last year, during which time the recordings were unavailable for your perusal.

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An Interview With Tim Place

I tend to look at larger bodies of work — novels, recordings – even things like software, I suppose — and wonder if there’s a single point at which everything began. Where did Hipno “come from?”

Hipno actually started out life as a really unfocused effort to leverage a bunch of 3rd-party Max work (Tap.Tools, GTK, etc.) into plug-ins. After an initial surge, the artist in me couldn’t handle the diffuseness of this as a vision, so in going back to square one I started pulling things apart and reflecting on a vision for the package. Once I sat back, it didn’t take long to define the problems I wanted to tackle in Hipno, namely how plug-ins are controlled in realtime — from within the plug-ins themselves.

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