UCSB MAT at the International Computer Music Conference in Copenhagen

Stephen Travis Pope, Dan Overholt, Graham Wakefield,
Wes Smith, and Alex Norman

Media Arts and Technology

UC Santa Barbara

Date: Friday, November 9, 2007
Place: Buchanan 1940
Time: 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm


Abstract:

The International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) is the premiere annual event for the fields of electro-acoustic music and digital audio signal processing. It is a combined technical/humanities conference and concert festival, and alternates between sites in Europe, Asia, and the Americas (recent sites: Singapore, New Orleans, and Barcelona). The 2007 ICMC took place from 27-31 August in Copenhagen, Denmark; it was co-sponsored by the Danish Digital Arts Forum, the University of Aalborg, the Danish Composer's Society, the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and the International Computer Music Association. ICMC events were held at several sites in Copenhagen, including the Music Academy, the School of Architecture, the Tycho Brahe Planetarium, the Queen's Concert Hall, and the Plex Music Theater.

MAT faculty member Stephen Pope presented three research papers and co-chaired a panel discussion; the titles of his presentations were:

- "Scripting and Tools for Analysis/Resynthesis of Audio"

- "Teaching Digital Audio Programming: Notes on a Two-year Course Sequence "

- "Immersive Audio and Music in the Allosphere"

- "Models and APIs for Audio Synthesis and Processing"

MAT graduate students presented papers on topics ranging from programming language design for music to enhanced violins for electro- acoustic music performance. Their contributions were:

- "Using Lua for Audiovisual Composition," Graham Wakefield and Wesley Smith

- "Data Jockey, A Tool for Meta-Data Enhanced Digital DJing and Active Listening," Alex Norman and Xavier Amatriain

- "Sonofusion: Development of a Multimedia Composition for Overtone Violin," John Thompson and Dan Overholt

On the artistic front, Stephen Pope's new 26-minute music/video piece "Eternal Dream" was shown at the close of the evening video program every evening of the festival at Huset’s Cinema in Copenhagen. "Eternal Dream" is included as part of "Ritual and Memory," a triple- disc anthology (2 CDs and 1 DVD) of his music and video works that was released by the New-York-based Electronic Music Foundation and introduced at ICMC 2007.