Noah_Thorp

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT)

Presentations and Telepresence Performance @ Mills College

Mills College, Music Building, Ensemble Room

Thanks to Mills College for hosting the Bay Area computer music technology group this month! Presentation descriptions are below. Please come at 6:45 as the 30 minute tele-presence performance will begin at 7pm.

Faculty and student performers at Mills will improvise with musicians in Chicago via an internet connection as part of the The Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival. This will be a medium-fidelity connection (not Internet2), so the performers will be working within the inherent limitations of the ubiquitous medium artistically, rather than trying to demonstrate new technological abilities. For more information on the festival and this event visit 

2) Chris Brown talk about The Hub's network music composition "Vav" :

Chris Brown will discuss and demonstrate the interactive systems used in "Vav", a network-music composition currently installed at the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco as part of the John Zorn Presents the Aleph-Bet Sound Project. The piece was created by The Hub based on a protocol of data-exchange and musical responses among the six members of the group, each performing with their own computer instruments and software. An aesthetic that favors a balance between algorithimically generated and improvised musical actions in network music performance will be proposed.

3) Ge wang will present on Composing and Conducting for Laptop Orchestra: 

The presentation outlines some techniques for composing, performing, and conducting for laptop orchestra, drawing from experiences with the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). In this context, we also look ahead to the upcoming Laptop Orchestra of the Left (LOL).

The event will be in the ensemble room in the Mills College music building. Take the east-most entrance to Mills. The music building is the 3rd building on the right after entering campus and the ensemble room is on the ground floor at the far end of the building.

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT) Organizer

CHRIS BROWN, composer, pianist, and electronic musician, creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles. Collaboration and improvisation are consistent themes in his work, as well as the invention and performance of new electronic instruments. He is a member of the pioneering computer network band “The Hub” and is a Professor of Music and Co-Director of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College in Oakland, California. www.cbmuse.com.

 ) is currently an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), having received his PhD in Computer Science in 2008 from Princeton University. His research interests include interactive software systems for computer music, programming languages, sound synthesis and analysis, music information retrieval, new performance ensembles (e.g., laptop orchestras) and paradigms (e.g., live coding), visualization, interfaces for human-computer interaction, and methodologies for education at the intersection of computer science and music. Ge is the chief architect of the ChucK audio programming language ( 

 ). He was a founding developer and co-director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), the founder and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra ( SLOrk - 

 ). He has co-founded the Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) and is establishing the Laptop Orchestra of the Left (LOL) in collaboration with the Bay Area Music Technology Group. Recently, Ge has co-founded SonicMule ( 

 ), a startup creating interactive sonic media. Ge composes and performs via various electro-acoustic and computer-mediated means.

Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT)
Presentations and Telepresence Performance  @ Mills College
Thursday 10/2/08, 6:45pm
Mills College, Music Building, Ensemble Room
5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613
Please RSVP Here: http://www.barcmut.org

1) Telepresence event:
Faculty and student performers at Mills will improvise with musicians in Chicago via an internet connection as part of the The Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival.  This will be a medium-fidelity connection (not Internet2), so the performers will be working within the inherent limitations of the ubiquitous medium artistically, rather than trying to demonstrate new technological abilities.  For more information on the festival and this event visit http://www.chicagocalling.org.

2) Chris Brown talk about The Hub's network music composition "Vav" :
Chris Brown will discuss and demonstrate the interactive systems used in "Vav", a network-music composition currently installed at the new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco as part of the John Zorn Presents the Aleph-Bet Sound Project.  The piece was created by The Hub based on a protocol of data-exchange and musical responses among the six members of the group, each performing with their own computer instruments and software.  An aesthetic that favors a balance between algorithimically generated and improvised musical actions in network music performance will be proposed.

3) Ge wang will present on Composing and Conducting for Laptop Orchestra: 
The presentation outlines some techniques for composing, performing, and conducting for laptop orchestra, drawing from experiences with the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) and Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk). In this context, we also look ahead to the upcoming Laptop Orchestra of the Left (LOL).

Best,
Noah Thorp
Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group (BArCMuT) Organizer
http://www.barcmut.org

CHRIS BROWN, composer, pianist, and electronic musician, creates music for acoustic instruments with interactive electronics, for computer networks, and for improvising ensembles.  Collaboration and improvisation are consistent themes in his work, as well as the invention and performance of new electronic instruments.   He is a member of the pioneering computer network band “The Hub” and is a Professor of Music and Co-Director  of the Center for Contemporary Music (CCM) at Mills College in Oakland, California.   www.cbmuse.com.

Ge Wang ( http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~ge/ ) is currently an assistant professor at Stanford University in the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), having received his PhD in Computer Science in 2008 from Princeton University.  His research interests include interactive software systems for computer music, programming languages, sound synthesis and analysis, music information retrieval, new performance ensembles (e.g., laptop orchestras) and paradigms (e.g., live coding), visualization, interfaces for human-computer interaction, and methodologies for education at the intersection of computer science and music. Ge is the chief architect of the ChucK audio programming language ( http://chuck.cs.princeton.edu/ ). He was a founding developer and co-director of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLOrk), the founder and director of the Stanford Laptop Orchestra ( SLOrk - http://slork.stanford.edu/ ).  He has co-founded the Mobile Phone Orchestra (MoPhO) and is establishing the Laptop Orchestra of the Left (LOL) in collaboration with the Bay Area Music Technology Group.  Recently, Ge has co-founded SonicMule ( http://www.smule.com ), a startup creating interactive sonic media.  Ge composes and performs via various electro-acoustic and computer-mediated means.


Bay Area Computer Music Technology Group Event Thursday 10/2 @ Mills