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unusual facts about Computer Music


On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

Each entry contains the leading terms of the sequence, keywords, mathematical motivations, literature links, and more, including the option to generate a graph or play a musical representation of the sequence.


DirectX plugin

In computer music and professional audio creation, a DirectX plugin is a software processing component that can be loaded as a plugin into host applications to allow real-time processing, audio effects, mixing audio or act as virtual synthesizers.

Jean-Claude Risset

Jean-Claude Risset (18 March 1938, in Le Puy-en-Velay, France) is a French composer, best known for his pioneering contributions to computer music.

John R. Pierce

Here he was prominent in the research of computer music, as a Visiting Professor of Music, Emeritus (along with John Chowning and Max Mathews).

Nicolas Vérin

Frédéric Durieux, Hans-Peter Kunz) and teaching several courses of Computer Music (for the Doctorate Program of Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and IRCAM Computer Music Curriculum) as well as participating in the beta-testing of Miller Puckette's Max programming language.

Paul Lansky

Paul Lansky (born June 18, 1944, in New York) is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day.

Tummyrub

BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Oxford featured Tummyrub in 2 shows dedicated to Fractal Music in 1991 and they also appeared in the press; Computer music magazine April 1991, Music Technology magazine July 1991 and The Independent May 1991.


see also

Andrew Schloss

Schloss is a pioneer in computer-music technology, and worked at IRCAM and the CCRMA in the 1980s.

Christopher Yavelow

Throughout the 1980s, Yavelow published many articles on computer music for Byte Magazine, Computer Music Journal, Electronic Musician, Macromedia Journal, Macworld, and New Media Magazine.

DDP-24

Of notability, Max Mathews, considered by many to be the founding father of computer music, used among others, a DDP-224 and a DDP-24 computer to develop his GROOVE music system, as related by Professor Barry Vercoe in a 1999 MIT Media Lab interview.

Eduardo Reck Miranda

Eduardo Reck Miranda, Ph.D, (born 1963), is a Brazilian composer of chamber and electroacoustic pieces but is most notable in the United Kingdom for his scientific research into computer music, particularly in the field of human-machine interfaces where brain waves will replace keyboards and voice commands to permit the disabled to express themselves musically.

Jean Piché

Piché studied electroacoustic and computer music at Simon Fraser University with Barry Truax, and at the Institute of Sonology in the Netherlands.

Keith Hamel

Between 1981 and 1984, he also studied Computer Music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, under the supervision of Barry Vercoe.

Manuel Rocha Iturbide

In these years, Manuel Rocha Iturbide worked with Curtis Roads and Barry Truax, two of the most important pioneers on granular synthesis computer music techniques.

Meetle Mice

This was Dan Deacon's First Release, it is a compilation of computer music and various live recordings by Dan during his schooling in 2003 at SUNY Purchase.

PLOrk

Composers and performers from Princeton and elsewhere developed new pieces for the ensemble, including Paul Lansky (Professor of Music at Princeton), Brad Garton (Director of the Columbia Computer Music Center), Pauline Oliveros, PLOrk co-founders Dan Trueman and Perry Cook, Scott Smallwood, Ge Wang, and others.

Silly Hat vs. Egale Hat

This was Dan Deacon's Second release (after Meetle Mice, also released in 2003), it is a compilation of computer music and various live recordings by Dan during his schooling in 2003 at SUNY Purchase.

Zbigniew Karkowski

He studied composition at the State College of Music in Gothenburg, Sweden, aesthetics of modern music at the University of Gothenburg’s Department of Musicology, and computer music at the Chalmers University of Technology.

Zulema de la Cruz

Zulema de la Cruz was born in Madrid and studied at the Madrid Conservatory for piano and composition and Stanford University in California for composition and computer music, with professors including Carmelo Bernaola and Ramón Barce.