From: music-research@CATTELL.PSYCH.UPENN.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.music
Subject: Music-Research Digest      Vol. 7, #32
Date: 27 Sep 92 09:51:48 GMT
Reply-To: music-research-request@cattell.psych.upenn.edu

Music-Research Digest       Sun, 27 Sep 92       Volume 7 : Issue  32 

Today's Topics:
                           Chant fonts ???
                         Cybernetic Composer
     International Workshop on Sonic Representation and Transform
   Job offered, Unix/NeXT/Mac software customization/support, IRCAM


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Date: 26 Sep 92 00:38:52 GMT
From: dxc4@po.CWRU.Edu (David Condon)
Subject: Chant fonts ???
To: Music-Research

Greetings,

Has anybody ever come across a font for notating Gregorian chant --
"square" notation as used in Vatican editions of chant such as the
Liber Usualis? I am particularly interested in finding one for the Macintosh.

Thanks very much.

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Date: Sat, 26 Sep 92 15:27:27 +0300
From: helin@fi.uta.cs.vehka (Mikko Helin)
Subject: Cybernetic Composer
To: music-research@prg

As far as I know, there is a freeware version of this program for
Macintosh computers. Cybernetic Composer is developed by Kurzweil
Foundation to show how AI can be applied to musical composition.
Does anybody know from where to get it ( by ftp ).

regards
  Mikko
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Mikko Helin
internet: helin@vehka.cs.uta.fi

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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1992 11:17:53 +0100
From: ilas@it.sissa.tsmi19
Subject: International Workshop on Sonic Representation and Transform
To: music-research@prg

International Workshop on

SONIC REPRESENTATION AND TRANSFORM

	The Workshop will be held at the International School for Advanced 
Studies (ISAS-SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, from 26 to 31 October 1992, 
and is sponsored by the "Interdisciplinary Laboratory" of the ISAS.



	The aim of the Workshop is to provide a free and informal frame for
presentation of new ideas, overview of recent developments, comparison and
criticism of different methods, by a selected number of qualified experts 
in different fields, directly or indirectly connected with the main topics 
of the Workshop, including representation of music signals and human 
voice, musical analysis and synthesis, mathematical representation of signals,
hardware and software for signal processing, phonology and linguistics, 
knowledge acquisition and organization.  The format will be based on 
invited lectures, communications, and discussion sessions.

	Among the invited speakers are: Federico Albano Leoni, Charles Ames, 
Mario Baroni*, Bernard Bel, Nicola Bernardini, Ashoke Datta, Giovanni De Poli,
Giuseppe Di Giugno*, Alex Grossman*, Kurt Hebel, Otto Laske, Aldo Piccialli, 
Jean-Claude Risset*, Curtis Roads*, Lucio Russo, Carla Scaletti, Johan Sundberg
, James Tenney, Alvise Vidolin (* to be confirmed).


	Participation from all interested scholars and musicians is welcome.  
We regret that no funds are available to support the travel and stay of the 
participants.

	The Members of the Organizing Committee are:

	Gianfausto Dell'Antonio

ISAS-SISSA, Trieste, and Department of Mathematics, University of Rome "La
Sapienza"

	Francesco Guerra

Department of Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

	Laura Tedeschini Lalli

Department of Mathematics, University of Rome "La Sapienza"


	For all scientific matters concerning the Workshop, kindly contact

Francesco Guerra
Dipartimento di Fisica
Universit di Roma "La Sapienza"
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 2
I-00185 Rome (ITALY)

phone ++39 6 49914347;   fax ++39 6 4957697;   e-mail guerra@roma1.infn.it

	For all logistic and organizational matters, kindly contact

Rosanna Sain
Laboratorio Interdisciplinare per le Scienze Naturali ed Umanistiche
Strada Costiera, 11
34014 Trieste (ITALY)

phone ++ 39 40 224160 or ++ 39 40 3787420;  fax ++ 39 40 3787528

Email: ILAS@TSMI19.SISSA.IT  or ILAS@ITSSISSA.BITNET  

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Date: 25 Sep 92 18:03:23 GMT
From: support@ircam.fr (System Support)
Subject: Job offered, Unix/NeXT/Mac software customization/support, IRCAM
To: Music-Research

IRCAM is a leading non-profit organization of musical creation, R&D and
education in acoustics and music, located in the center of Paris (France), next
to the Pompidou Center.  It hosts composers, researchers and students from many
countries cooperating in contemporary music production, signal processing,
acoustics and psychoacoustics and their interrelations.  Two positions are
immediately available to staff the support activities of the R&D department.

The candidates will perform debugging and QA, optimization and fine tuning,
customization (including major rewriting) and packaging of prototypical in-house
software and documentation for releases in house and to external clients;
porting of such software to different graphical platforms (e.g., from/to
NeXTStep, X11/Motif, Mac); upgrades, releases and distribution management;
continued support of those packages in close contact with the developpers.

This involves gaining an in-depth understanding of the software, its users and
their needs.

EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS

o  3-5 years expertise in C programming on Unix platforms of medium to large
   programs of quality.

o  3 years experience in developpement in computer graphics and GUIs (at
   least one, preferably two, of X11/Motif, NeXTStep and Macintosh).

o  High productivity, excellent programming style, stable and mature individual.

o  Proven ability to produce accurate, usable technical documentation.

o  Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to work in a heterogeneous
   environment (musicians, researchers, programmers).

ADDITIONAL HELPFUL EXPERIENCE

o  Experience in digital signal processing.

o  Experience in computer music, MIDI.

o  Additional programming experience with Macintosh, Mac Applications

o  Internet, TCP/IP, NFS site experience

o  Kernel and/or device driver programming

o  Solid experience in porting software to different systems and platforms,
   customization and packaging.

SALARY AND BENEFITS

The salary range is FFrs160,000-190,000/year approx. ($32,000-38,000).
Benefits include 6 weeks paid vacation and employer's participation in
medical insurance, meal plan and daily travel expenses; free entrance
to most French national museums, many discounts on concerts and other shows.

AVAILABILITY

Positions are available immediately.  ECC nationals/working EEC papers an asset.
Please send resume and detailed work experience to any of the following
addresses:

  email:support@ircam.fr
  FAX:	+33 1 42 77 29 47 (attn: Michael Fingerhut)
  Mail:	IRCAM, 31 rue Saint Merri, 75004 Paris, France (attn: Michael Fingerhut)

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