| Title: | * * Computer Music, MIDI, and Related Topics * * |
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| Created: | Thu Feb 20 1986 |
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Since none of the regulars have entered anything, I'll have to break out of lurk mode and give a mini-report on some work going on at the MIT Media Lab. Although I have read this conference for a year or so, I probably won't use the proper buzz words... The media lab is doing lots of stuff with computers and music, but one demo I saw on Tuesday (DECday at the media lab) seemed most relevent to Commusic folks. The demo involved a Kurzweil connected to a MAC II and a slew of drum machines, equalizers and amps driving two nice Snell speakers in a sound "conditioned" room. The essence of the demo was to show some Lisp-based software that is coded to add different appeggios and rhythms with each chord/note combination played. The keyboard player showed how he could play a score that involved mostly chord changes and have each section of the piece be enhanced with some pre-defined rhythms and appeggios added as he played. The effects changed according to key pressure (definitely the sound and maybe the rhythm/apeggiation) within the chords. Has anyone seen/heard of this sort of thing? I have played with the Bars and Pipes sequencer demo on the Amiga, which can add algorhythms to incoming notes, but this seemed to be tied to a pre-existing score or at least pre-existing chord/key-pressure logic. The emphasis was on performance rather than sequence playing. It could be played differently each time. As I write this I can think of lots of good questions to ask, but during the demo I was wowed by the musical piece (and the amazing computer graphics shown with it). Dave
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2331.1 | Tod is God | BAVIKI::GOOD | Michael Good | Mon May 07 1990 19:42 | 20 |
The keyboard demo was taken from VALIS, an opera by Tod Machover. I reviewed that in note 2028 after seeing a semi-staged version at the MIT Media Lab. It's also available on a Bridge CD. Joseph Chung at the Media Lab said that Bridge would be releasing another CD of Machover's music soon, around June 1. Much of this will be music that was performed on Machover's tour of Japan earlier this year, which apparently was quite a hit. They showed tapes of Machover conducting a hyperinstrument ensemble using an Exos Dextrous Hand Master on his left hand which controlled the mixing of the hyperinstruments. I don't know of these techniques being used outside of Machover's music, and I can't help much on the technical details either. I saw Machover and Chung at the Yo-Yo Ma concert at Symphony Hall last week and jokingly pictured them saying, "Wouldn't this be better with hyperinstruments?" Then I read in the Globe the next day that Machover is doing a cello/hyperinstrument piece for Ma! That should be something. | |||||