EcoSono Institute Caribbean call for participants

EcoSono Institute call for participants

Study and research environmental sound, marine ecology, recording and computer music composition while exploring the beauty of the Caribbean Sea during this two-week summer intensive program in Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, Dominica, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad, Curacao, Bonaire and Aruba.

May 27-June 10, 2010. The ship departs from Nassau, Bahamas and returns to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Participants travel on a modern and safe, first class passenger ship equipped with wireless internet, concert hall and advanced academic facilities. Coastal land-based adventures offer participants the possibility to experience amazing things such as a whale and dolphin audio safari in Dominica, the Pitch Lake and sulpher ponds of Trinidad and more.

The adventure will offer a fascinating course of study in sound and ecology from the comfort and safety of a first class ship as we explore the beauty and culture of the Caribbean. The academic concentration will be supported by advanced creative work, and travel in the Caribbean as we visit locations such as Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, Dominica, Barbados, Grenada, Trinidad, Bonaire, Curacao and Aruba. Participants may present their own work at the Oceans/Elements Concert which will also feature music by internationally acclaimed sound artists.

Up to 15 participants will be accepted. Applications will be reviewed as they arrive until all spots are filled. The final deadline for applications is March 31, 2010. Participants receive an EcoSono Institute Certificate and letter of recommendation. Enrolled university students may be able to apply course work for college credit.

For detailed information and to apply, please visit http://www.ecosono.com/ .
Contact institute@ecosono.com for information on the program or matthew_burtner@earthlink.net for information on the curriculum.
 

Circuit, vol. 19, vol. 3: Pioneers of electronic instruments, Canada

 The editorial board of Circuit, musiques contemporaines is pleased to announce the publication of vol. 19, no. 3, “Canadian pioneers of electronic instruments.” This issue explores the history of the musical institutions which allowed electronic music to flourish in this country. The issue contains hitherto unpublished interviews with Otto Joachim, István Anhalt and Barry Truax, as well as articles on Hugh Le Caine and Nil Parent. The ‘Cahier d’analyse’ explores a work for piano and electronic sounds by Michel Gonneville.

The Table of Contents follows this message.

In addition, attached to this message, please find the announcement of the 2nd International essay-writing competition 2010 Edition, on the composer Gilles Tremblay.

We invite our readers to send comments by email to info@revuecircuit.ca

It is possible to subscribe to Circuit, musiques contemporaines through the journal’s website (www.revuecircuit.ca). It is also possible to subscribe to an electronic version of the journal through Erudit (www.erudit.org).


Jonathan Goldman
Editor-in-Chief
Circuit, musiques contemporaines

Table of Contents

Circuit, musiques contemporaines
Vol. 19, no 3: Pionniers canadiens de la lutherie électronique

Jonathan Goldman
Paysage sonore électronique et canadien : introduction

Gayle Young
Hugh Le Caine, de la saqueboute au multi-track

Anne Marie Messier
Ticket pour la liberté. Entretien avec Otto Joachim

Sylvia L’Écuyer
Le laboratoire musical de l’Université Simon Fraser : une entrevue avec Barry Truax

Gisèle Ricard
Dans le sillage de Nil Parent : Smeul et Gimel. Points de repère dans l’histoire de la musique électroacoustique à Québec

Réal La Rochelle
L’opéra audiovisuel dans le cinéma québécois : vecteur de l’expérimentation sonore

Matt Rogalsky
Finger Exercises for Oscillators: István Anhalt on Electronic Music

CAHIER D’ANALYSE
Nicolas Gilbert
Chute/Parachute de Michel Gonneville : pensée sérielle, écriture postmoderne (ou l’inverse)

ACTUALITÉS

Véronique Verdier
Compte rendu : Gérard Grisey, Écrits ou l’invention de la musique spectrale

Danick Trottier
Compte rendu : F. Meyer et A.C. Shreffler, Elliott Carter. A Centennial Portrait in Letters and Documents

NOUVEAUTÉS EN BREF
Réjean Beaucage

Circuit, musiques contemporaines
Faculté de musique – Université de Montréal
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Montréal, Qc
Canada H3C 3J7

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Livid DNA devkit for Jitter

Hi all,

We just released a new, simple video software called DNA:
http://www.lividinstruments.com/software_celldna.php
It’s all built with Jitter, and uses all OpenGL rendering and effects. (almost – the freeframe effects rely on texture readback)
The nice thing about it for Jitter users is that I’ve made it pretty simple to add your own Max patches into the system, so they can be integrated with the rest of the effects and video sources. You can read a bit more about it here:
http://www.lividindustry.com/culture/?p=168
It’s not exactly open source, but you can pull apart the patches in the CellFX and Extras folders and learn how to add sources, effects, and controls to the existing structure of DNA.

Peter.