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Live Performance Interaction For Humans And Machines In The Early Twenty-First Century: One Composer's Aesthetics For Composition And Performance Practice, Brian Belet Dec 2003

Live Performance Interaction For Humans And Machines In The Early Twenty-First Century: One Composer's Aesthetics For Composition And Performance Practice, Brian Belet

Brian Belet

Technology influences all art, and therefore all music, including composition, performance and listening. It always has, and it always will. For example, technical developments in materials, mechanics and manufacturing were important factors that permitted the piano to supersede the harpsichord as the primary concert Western keyboard instrument by about 1800. And with each new technical development new performance issues have been introduced. Piano performance technique is quite different from harpsichord technique, and composers responded to these differences with new music ideas and gestures. The multiple relationships between technology and composer and performer are dynamic and of paramount importance to each …


Teaching Tv Production In A Digital World (Book Review), Paul Kauppila Jul 2003

Teaching Tv Production In A Digital World (Book Review), Paul Kauppila

Faculty and Staff Publications

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Photography In The Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo, Dore Bowen Jan 2003

Photography In The Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo, Dore Bowen

Faculty Publications

The article examines the SF Camerawork exhibition Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process, which was co-curated by the author.


Compositional And Programming Issues Within Lyra, A Fully Interactive Performance Environment For Violin And Kyma System, Brian Belet Jan 2003

Compositional And Programming Issues Within Lyra, A Fully Interactive Performance Environment For Violin And Kyma System, Brian Belet

Brian Belet

Meaningful real-time interaction between human performers and computer processing is an important aesthetic issue for many composers. With the advent of computer systems that are actually fast enough to permit real-time algorithmic sound realizations based on the analysis of live performance data the issue now facing composers is how to utilize these tools in a meaningful and artistic way. Lyra, composed in 2002 for violin and Kyma, is an environment in which the acoustically generated sounds and the computer generated and processed sounds are mutually dependent upon each other for a unified ensemble performance. All of the computer music layers …


Photography In The Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo, Dore Bowen Jan 2003

Photography In The Mix: Flora-Fauna-Photo, Dore Bowen

Dore Bowen

The article examines the SF Camerawork exhibition Agitate: Negotiating the Photographic Process, which was co-curated by the author.