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Subject: Music-Research Digest      Vol. 7, #29
Date: 9 Sep 92 19:18:13 GMT
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Music-Research Digest       Wed,  9 Sep 92       Volume 7 : Issue  29 

Today's Topics:
       Call for Presentations: Knowledge Technology in the Arts
ISME Commission on Music in Culture, Education and Mass Media Policies
                      Where is TEX, MusicTEX ??


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Date: 16 Aug 92 22:05:57 GMT
From: todd@psych.Stanford.EDU (Peter Todd)
Subject: Call for Presentations: Knowledge Technology in the Arts
To: Music-Research

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	  CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS on Knowledge Technology in the Arts
                                       
		     to be presented in a special session
			at the 1993 Conference of the
	    Society of Electroacoustic Music in the U.S. (SEAMUS)
                        University of Texas at Austin
			March 31st to April 3rd, 1993

	       and at the Fourth Arts and Technology Conference
		     Connecticut College, New London, CT
			    March 4th to 6th, 1993
 
During the 1993 SEAMUS conference, a special session on knowledge technology
in the arts will be held, co-sponsored by SEAMUS and IAKTA, the newly founded
International Association for Knowledge Technology in the Arts.  The main
purpose of this session is to familiarize artists with the applications of AI,
Connectionism, and other knowledge technologies in music and related arts, and
the new tools that are available for these artistic pursuits.  IAKTA is
calling for proposals for presentations on applications of symbolic AI and
neural networks to topics in composition, performance, and teaching in the
computer arts (music, film, dance, video art, performance art), in keeping
with the conference's focus on "Music, Media, and Movement".  We would most
like to encourage the submission of tutorial presentations that will help
inspire artists to learn more about and become involved in knowledge
technology, both as practitioners and as researchers.  Speakers will have
approximately 25-45 minutes to give a thorough introduction to their topic.
Talks on new and innovative uses of knowledge technology and the arts are also
welcomed.

Please send abstracts/descriptions up to two pages in length and descriptions
of your audiovisual requirements by October 1 to IAKTA president Otto Laske
(laske@cs.bu.edu) and secretary Peter Todd (ptodd@spo.rowland.org).

(For more information on IAKTA itself, our goals, membership structure, etc.,
please contact Peter Todd at ptodd@spo.rowland.org .)

IAKTA would also like to encourage paper submissions on knowledge technology
in the arts to the Fourth Arts and Technology Conference at Connecticut
College.  This conference will be held March 4th to 6th, 1993, in New London,
Connecticut, and is being organized by Noel Zahler and David Smalley.  The
emphasis of the Arts and Technology Conference is multidisciplinary
interaction; it will cover virtual reality, cognition and the arts,
experimental theater, the compositional process, and speculative uses of
technology in education.  Submissions in the form of a detailed two-page
abstract including audiovisual requirements should be sent by October 15 to

        Dr. Noel Zahler, Co-director
        Center for Arts and Technology
        Connecticut College, Box 5632
        207 Mohegan Avenue
        New London, CT 06320-4196
        email: nbzah@conncoll.bitnet

(Authors should be notified of acceptance by November 15, and camera-ready
copy will be due by January 15, 1993.)  A copy of the contribution should also
be sent to IAKTA president Otto Laske (laske@cs.bu.edu) and secretary Peter
Todd (ptodd@spo.rowland.org).
 

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 09:44:44 CDT
From: Peter Etzkorn <SOCETZ@EDU.UMSL.UMSLVMA>
Subject: ISME Commission on Music in Culture, Education and Mass Media Policies
To: News Item <mail@UMSLVMA>, Cattell <MUSIC-RESEARCH@prg>

         ISME International Society for Music Education
 Commission on Music in Culture, Educational and Mass Media Policies
             Report on Commission Activities 1990-92
                    And Plans for the Future

                         August 11, 1992

                     K. Peter Etzkorn, Chair
                University of Missouri-St. Louis

During the years 1990-1992 the ISME Commission on MUSIC IN CULTURE,
EDUCATIONAL AND MASS MEDIA POLICIES  consisted of Doris Axelsen (Sweden),
Irmgard Bontinck (Austria), K. Peter Etzkorn, Chair, (USA), Wilfried Gruhn
(FRG), Antoine Hennion (France), Michael Marks (USA), and Honorary Member Kurt
Blaukopf,  (Austria).  We are pleased to report on recent activities.

     The continued spread of media technology to all regions of the globe
creates opportunities and risks to enriching musical education among different
musical traditions.  Mindful of the fact that media shape the musical environ-
ment of all people, the Commission continues to monitor developments affecting
culture change in music by paying particular attention to policy level initi-
atives of governmental agencies in export and import countries concerned with
the international transfer of mediated music, with actions by educational
authorities to affect the effects of these developments, and by encouraging
original research investigating links between individual live music and
mediated (commodified) music dissemination.

     In the interval between Commission Meetings, commissioners carried out
their work by sharing findings through correspondence, the exchange of working
papers, cooperative projects with MEDIACULT, and by preparing a focussed
Agenda for Commission Seminars with an appropriate Call for Presentations from
the expert community.

     In order to obtain expert input from critical regions of the world, the
Commission seeks to appoint replacements for its outgoing members from
representative world regions (Asia, South America, Africa, ... ).  Recommenda-
tions on this matter were finalized at the conclusion of the Commission
Seminar Educational and Media Music Practices and Policies as Agents in
Shaping Cultural Identity, which was held in Makuhari (Chiba), Japan, July 20-
24, 1992.

     The Seminar was a full success.  Seventeen contributed papers and
additional participants and observers came from Austria, Brazil, Germany,
Italy, Japan, Russia, Singapore, Syria, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, and the
USA.  Field visits during the Seminar included demonstrations and discussions
with researchers at the National Institute of Multimedia Education on state of
the art technological developments in the fields of high-frequency sound
storage and dissemination, with programming staffs of the division of Educa-
tional Broadcasting of NHK and the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation of Education
and Culture.  In addition, a Demonstration Concert with the Poulenc Concerto
for Organ, Strauss' Letzte Gesnge, contemporary pieces including the first
performances of composition by Hozan Yamamoto and Kijiro Sato utilized latest
electronic sound generation devices (Yamaha Electon ELX-1, EL-90; Yamaha
Sequencer QX5, etc.) and together with a visit to a music superstore in the
Ginza shopping area of Tokyo provided a common basis for the Seminar's
deliberations concerning the growing impact of media in musical life.

     The Commission on Music in Culture, Educational and Mass Media Policies
wishes to formally record its debt for the success of the Seminar to Dr.
Tsuneo Nakajima along with his hard-working committee of the National Confer-
ence of Music Education, Japan, Dr. Yasuharu Takahagi, the Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Arts and
Culture, Hoso-Bunka Foundation, Nomura Cultural Foundation, Foundation for the
Promotion of Music Education, and Yamaha Corporation

     At the subsequent XX ISME World Conference "Sharing Musics of the World"
in Seoul, Korea, the Commission recommended to the ISME Board that the out-
going members Drs. Ingeborg Bontinck (Austria) and Michael Marks (USA) be
replaced with Drs. Nelly De Camargo (Brazil) and Toru Mitsui (Japan).  The
Commission further recommended that Dr. Bontinck be appointed as Special
Consultant and Liaison to MEDIACULT.

     Resulting from discussions at the Makuhari Seminar and papers presented
at the Commission Sessions during the Seoul Conference certain conclusions can
be offered:

     1)  Consensus emerged that the global issues of the impact of
     media and popular music on music education must remain a principal
     focus of our Commission's mandate.  As the only ISME Commission
     specifically addressing these topics we need to continue our focus
     on solid information that may benefit decisions that affect the
     uses of media as they influence music education and music/media
     competencies.

     2)  Reports from various regions of the world (Singapore, South
     Africa, Japan, ... ) indicate that media are not a cure all but
     need to be supplemented with live music making in order to be
     effective instruments for music education.

     3)  Various reports suggest that media, when used in conjunction
     with live activities (dance, music), can be effective means even
     when teachers have only limited musical training.

     4)  Educational and cultural policies will need to be developed
     with the aim of strengthening media and listeners' competencies
     among audiences but particularly among the youth. Educators should
     be encouraged to develop innovative approaches towards helping
     students to discover live musical dimensions behind the recorded
     media.

     5)  Sentiments were expressed towards developing policies aimed at
     strengthening attitudes towards the acceptance of local differen-
     ces in musical culture and to support experiments with all (and
     new) types of music, e.g. through the support of experimental
     courses.

     6) The value of stock-taking, and creating an inventory of and
     facilitating access to digitalized repositories of media resources
     for music educators was noted. Already available digitalized media
     technology of potential use to music educators as demonstrated
     during the Seminar are of great interest to the Commission.
     MEDIACULT's world-wide expert contacts and networking resources
     will be an important asset for the Commission's work towards
     defining this objective.

     Consistent with these observations the Commission resolved to continue
its work on issues identified during previous Commission Seminars as central
to its mandate as the ISME Commission that specifically deals with media
policies.

     The Commission will focus on questions that deal with "what media
policies (about cultural processes, institutional arrangements, technological
developments, ...) can be identified as critical elements in the realization
of the objective of helping various peoples to understand each other through
music as aided through the efforts of music educators."

     The Commission will study how reciprocal relationships between various
mass media (visual, print, electronic, ... ) musicians, and audiences affect
(modify?) the traditional processes of musical practice and instruction.

     The Commission will rely on MEDIACULT to continue to act as a clearing
house to provide access to individual studies to researchers and research
institutions on music education in all countries.

     The Commission will stimulate investigations of how the various media
(including repositories of electronically stored music and  data) can be
utilized to promote the traditional goals of music educators.

     Finally, the Commission will support research so that findings will be
sufficiently secure to allow the making of policy recommendations.



                      Plans for the Future

The Commission agreed on its working theme for the next biennium and announced
the topic for the Call for Presentations for the 1994 Commission Seminar:

     Mass Media Programming Policies Affecting the Musical Experience
     of Youth.

     Further details and deadlines for the submission of abstracts and
completed papers as well as the venue of the 1994 Seminar will be announced in
the March 1993 issue of International Journal of Music Education.


     Membership of the 1992-1994 Commission on Music in Culture, Educational
and Mass Media Policies:

Commission Chair

K. Peter Etzkorn
Department of Sociology
University of Missouri
St. Louis MO 63121-4499 USA
Phone: <USA> 314-553-5093;
FAX: <USA> 314-553-5268
E-mail: SOCETZ@UMSLVMA.BITNET

Members

Doris Axelsen
Rvgen 90 C
25278 R, Sweden
Phone: <Sweden> 263302

Nelly de Camargo
Department of Multi-media
  Institute of Arts
UNICAMP Sao Paulo
Alameda JAU 705, ap 141
(01420) Sao Paulo, S.P. Brazil
Phone: <Brazil> 11-2892671 (H)
                   2849077 (O)
FAX:               2856531

Wilfried Gruhn
Hochschule fr Musik
Schwarzwaldstr. 141
D-7800 Freiburg, FRG
Phone: <Germany> 761-31915 59
FAX:                -3191542



Antoine Hennion
Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation
Ecole Suprieur des Mines
Bd Saint Michel 62
75272 Paris cedex 06, France
Phone: <France> 1 40519191
FAX:   <France> 1 43545628

Toru Mitsui
College of Liberal Arts
Kanazawa University
Kanazawa, Ishikawa 920, Japan
Phone: <Japan> 0762-31-1588
FAX:               -33-0834


Honorary Member

Kurt Blaukopf
Veitingergasse 69
A-1130 Wien, Austria
FAX: <Austria>   1-75 12 86

Special Consultant

Irmgard Bontinck
MEDIACULT
Metternichgasse 12
A-1030 Wien, Austria
Phone: <Austria> 1-712 53 44

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|                                                                      |
| K. Peter Etzkorn, Ph.D.                                              |
| Professor of Sociology and Ethnomusicology                           |
| University of Missouri - St. Louis                                   |
| St. Louis, MO 63121-4499 USA                                         |
| Voice Telephone: Office: <USA> 314-553-5093; Home: <USA> 314-991-5289|
| Fax (Metro Studies): <USA> 314-553-5268                              |
| E-mail: Bitnet: SOCETZ@UMSLVMA                                       |
|         Internet: SOCETZ@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU                            |
|         Compuserve:  76077,313                                       |
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Date: 18 Aug 92 16:38:47 GMT
From: icking@gmd.de (Werner Icking)
Subject: Where is TEX, MusicTEX ??
To: Music-Research

In <1992Aug18.141444.26434@alf.uib.no> s310@brems.ii.uib.no (Chris Tveit) writes:

>Where can I find the newest version of TEX, MusicTEX, ao. for my PC (MS-DOS) ??

You find both ready for anonymous ftp on:

 ftp.gmd.de:    music/musictex/...
                music/mutex/...

..and don't forget to subscribe to the Mu(sic)TeX-mailing list; send
your request to  mutex-request@stolaf.edu

>Are there any TEX-printer-drivers for my HP DeskJet 500 ?? (where)

EmTeX supports this printer (if memory serves me right): dvidrv dvihplj(7)
has a parameter which tells that the output goes to a DeskJet 500.

Werner
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