Contemporary Music Organizations - Ircam, Delian Society, Real Time Opera, International Society for Contemporary Music (Paperback)

Chapters: Ircam, Delian Society, Real Time Opera, International Society for Contemporary Music, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, New Music America, American Composers Alliance, League of Composers. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique) is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The extension of the building has been designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers. Several concepts for electronic music and audio processing have emerged at IRCAM. John Chowning did pioneering work on FM synthesis at IRCAM, and the real-time audio processing graphical programming environment Max/MSP and many of its derivatives, such as jMax, were developed there. Max/MSP has subsequently become a widely used tool in electroacoustic music. Many of the techniques associated with spectralism, such as analyses based on fast Fourier transforms, were made practical by technological contributions at IRCAM. IRCAM has also developed a special microphone capable of isolating each of the cello's four strings for separate amplification or electronic treatment. IRCAM provides classes to train composers in music technology. Composers who do not have programming experience to create the technology end of a piece for ensemble and electronics are provided with an assistant who helps them to realize technically intensive parts of the piece. The assistant will follow the conceptual advice of a composer with no technology experience to realize a computer part, or will help a composer who can program in Max/MSP to make their "patch" more efficient and elegant. Tristan Murail...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=25902