From: music-research@CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Music-Research Digest      Vol. 7, #12
Date: 11 Apr 92 07:35:16 GMT
Reply-To: music-research-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu

Music-Research Digest       Sat, 11 Apr 92       Volume 7 : Issue  12 

Today's Topics:
                            AI/Music Group
                             Job Opening
                 John Cage blown away by TV failsafe
                          NeXT mailing lists


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Date: 7 Apr 92 13:33:14 GMT
From: miranda@castle.ed.ac.uk (E R Miranda)
Subject: AI/Music Group
To: Music-Research

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*                 University of Edinburgh                   *
*    Faculty of Music & Dept of Artificial Intelligence     *
*                AI/Music Research Group                    *
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*                 TIMETABLE OF MEETINGS                     *
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date:  Thursday/ 23 - April, 04.00pm
venue: Room F10  - AI Dept. - South Brigde
subject: "Modular Representations of Music" 
speaker: Alan Smaill 
institution: (AI Dept. - University of Edinburgh)
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date: Thursday/ 07 - May, 04.00pm
venue: Seminar Room - Faculty of Music - 12 Nicolson Square
subject: "A Symbolic Parser for Melody and its uses in an Intelligent 
          Computer Environment for Tutoring Melody Composition"
speaker: Matt Smith
institution: (Dept. Computing Science - University of Aberdeen)
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date: Thursday/ 21 - May, 04.00pm
venue: Room F10 - AI Dept. - South Bridge
subject: "Cellular Automata Music: An experimental inspiration"
speaker: Eduardo R. Miranda 
institution: (Faculty of Music - University of Edinburgh)
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date: Thursday/ 04 - June, 04.00pm
venue: Seminar Room - Faculty of Music - 12 Nicolson  Square
subject: "AI - A Mentor to Algorithmic Composition"
speaker: Chris Scudds 
institution: (Electronics Dept.- University of Grasgow)
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date: Thursday/ 18 - June, 04.00pm
venue: Room F10 - AI Dept. - South Bridge
subject: "Music from Functions and Grammars"
speaker: Greg Michaelson
institution: (Computer Science - Heriot-Watt University - Edinburgh)
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Proposed talks for summer:
. Simon Holland (Univ. of Aberdeen - UK)
. Francesco Giomi (Conservatorio di Musica L. Cherubini - Italy)
. Stephen Davismoon (Univ. of Edinburgh)
. Carlos Palombini (Univ. of Durham)
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************  ELECTRONIC MUSIC CONCERT   ****************       
	            
              Sunday 24th May, 7.30pm

	      Edinburgh College of Art
	       (The Sculpture Space)
                  Lauriston Place
                     Edinburgh

	         New Electronic Works
                         by

	          STEPHEN DAVISMOON
                   GERAINT WIGGINS  
                         and
                   EDUARDO MIRANDA

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The main purpose of the meeings is to discuss the possibilities of
AI applied to Music. The meetings are open for everyone interested. 
Talk proposals are welcome.

For any information, please contact:
_________________________________________

Eduardo Reck Miranda
University of Edinburgh
AI/Music Group 
12 Nicolson Square
Edinburgh - EH8 9DF
Scotland - UK
MIRANDA@UK.AC.ED.MUSIC
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Date: Mon, 6 Apr 92 11:39 EST
From: FNELSON@edu.oberlin.cc.ocvaxa
Subject: Job Opening
To: music-research@edu.upenn.psych.cattell

NOTICE OF FACULTY VACANCY
IN ELECTRONIC AND COMPUTER MUSIC

The Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College invites applications
for a non-continuing, full-time position in the Technology in Music 
and Related Arts Program for the first semester, 1992-93.  A
possible extension of the appointment to include the second
semester is contingent on the leave status of the faculty member
being replaced.

The individual appointed will have general responsibility for
and will perform the following specific duties:

	1.	Teaching courses in analog and digital sound synthesis,
		multi-tracking, and recording techniques.

	2.	Participation in meetings and activities of the TIMARA
		Program Committee and the Conservatory of Music.

Qualifications include:

	1.	Advanced degree.  A doctorate in music is preferred but
		candidates with doctoral degrees in relevant fields such
		as computer science, mathematics, or engineering may 
		also apply if they are prepared to demonstrate substantial
		depth of musical achievement through their compositions
		or publications.  Persons nearing completion of a doctorate
		will also be considered.

	2.	Demonstrated experience and achievement in digital
		and analog signal processing, sound synthesis, and 
		composition.

Interested persons should submit credentials to Karen L. Wolff, 
Dean, Oberlin College Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, Ohio 
44074.  All credentials should be postmarked by April 24, 1992
to ensure  consideration.  Those received after that date will be
considered until the position in filled.  The appointment will be
made at the rank of Instructor or Assistant Professor.  Salary
will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

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Date: Sat, 4 Apr 92 10:14:52 +0100
From: sdpage@uk.co.andersen (Stephen Page)
Subject: John Cage blown away by TV failsafe
To: Stephen.Page@prg

[ I clipped this from Usenet group comp.risks -- it's not really in the
  mr-digest scope but I thought it might amuse readers... - S ]

   On Peter Ross's ABC-TV arts show on Sunday Afternoon,
   the avant garde composer John Cage was featured
   performing his 4'33".  It consists of the performer(s),
   armed with a stopwatch, sitting silently on stage for
   four minutes 33 seconds, with the music consisting of
   whatever noises come from the audience or outside the
   auditorium.  The TV performance went well, but the ABC
   was caught out by technology - a fail-safe device turns
   off studio transmission if there's more than 90 seconds
   of silence, and puts up a test pattern.  It went into
   operation three times during the performance.

Mark Bartelt, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics 416/978-5619

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Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 13:16:32 BST
From: Stephen Arnold <stephen@uk.ac.glasgow.music>
Subject: NeXT mailing lists
To: Music-Research@prg

Reader may like to try the following mail-lists.  They do not depend  
on NeXTmail, and, in spite of the name NeXT, do not exclusively deal  
in NeXT-related matters.

Since the NeXT computer and NeXTstep has become the environment of  
choice at many of the more important centres of computer music and  
computer-based music research and music teaching, UK-based music  
people, whose experience of the NeXT thing remains limited, may wish  
to track developments as documented by these lists.

NeXTmusic Mailing List <nextmusic@com.wri>
next-classroom@edu.gac

I can't be 100% certain of how to subscribe, but it should be  
something like the following:

email to:

nextmusic-request@com.wri
next-classroom-request@edu.gac

You may need to put add a message:

subscribe <your name>

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