FYI, Please Post - ZKM Computer Music Workshops 1994

[Rick Taube]

ZKM Computer Music Workshops 1994
Institute for Music and Acoustics
Center for Art and Mediatechnology, Karlsruhe Germany

1) Algorithmic Composition, September 25-October 5, 1994

    Ten day workshop focuses on the computer as a compositional tool
independent from its role in digital synthesis. The course provides
an introduction to the basic principles and procedures in algorithmic
composition and covers such topics as pattern generation, composing
with random processes, scheduling, and algorithmic score editing.
    The workshop is open to composers with previous experience in
computer assisted composition or digital synthesis. Familiarity with
at least one computer language (C, Pascal, Lisp, Smalltalk, etc) is
desired but not required.
     The workshop will be taught using Common Music, which provides a
hardware independent environment supporting a number of synthesis
packages such as the Music Kit, Common Lisp Music, CSound, and MIDI.
To remain as general as possible, concepts will be introduced and
demonstrated using MIDI, but composers who wish to work with one or
more of the other synthesis possibilities during the workshop are
free to do so.
    ZKM will provide a mixture of NeXT machines and Macintoshes;
composers may bring their own machine as well. Source code,
documentation, and directions on how to install the system at remote
sites will be free to the participants at the end of the workshop.
The course will be lead by Rick Taube. He developed Common Music and
Stella, is a composer and works as a software specialist at the
Institute. Tobias Kunze, a Berlin composer, will assist and support
the participants.
    The workshop is limited to ten participants. Classes will be
taught in English and German; the handbooks are in English. The
registration fee for the course is 500 DM, for students 250 DM.


Introduction to Digital Sound Synthesis, October 6-9, 1994

    This workshop provides an introduction to many of the synthesis
and sound editing techniques commonly in use today, and covers such
topics as frequency modulation, additive and subtractive synthesis,
linear transformations (sampling and frequency shifting) and
non-linear transformations (phase vocoding and physical modelling).
Participants will be able to augment their theoretical knowledge with
some "hands on" experimentation using the various synthesis models.
The workshop is open to composers with previous experience in
electro-acoustic music and in digital synthesis. Familiarity with at
least one computer language (C, MAX etc) is desired but not required.
The workshop will be taught using MAX and the ISWP (Ircam Signal
Processing Workstation) running on NeXT computers. But the aim of the
workshop is to provide an introduction to general technical and
acoustic principals rather than an introduction to a machine specific
environment.
    The course will be lead by Pierre Dutilleux, who received his PhD
in signal processing and acoustics and is currently the Research and
Development Ingenieur at the Institute for Music and Acoustics. His
main interest is designing digital (software) instruments for
composers.  The workshop is limited to ten participants, and may be
taken together with the workshop on Algorithmic Composition. Classes
will be taught in German and English; the handbooks are in English.
The registration fee for the course is 250 DM, for students 125 DM.

For further information and registration contact:

Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie
Institut fuer Musik und Akustik
E-Mail: music@ zkm.de

Ritterstr. 42  76137 Karlsruhe
Tel. 0721/ 9340-300
Fax 0721/ 9340-39


>From penrose@silvertone.Princeton.EDU Fri Apr 22 11:38:56 1994