Electronic Music on the Web

I enjoy experimental music, and I belong to a number of organizations which foster the composition and performance of computer music. One of these is the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.

I also belong to the International Computer Music Association. Every year they present the International Computer Music Conference, and this year it was held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from September 25 to September 30. I attended this conference and helped to present a demonstration of a new type of polyphonic music performance device called the Continuum.

Here are some facts and figures about the 1997 International Computer Music Conference (ICMC97). The concerts of ICMC97 were attended by 13500 people. Those were either conference participants, or people living in Thessaloniki, or people visiting Thessaloniki for the activities of the Cultural Capital of Europe. The exhibition hall of ICMC97 was visited by nearly 7000 people. 300 high school children took part in the activities of the children's corner. ICMC97 had 440 registered participants from all over the world, and the ICMC97 satellite meeting on multimedia education had 80 registered participants (total participants 520).

When I was a student at the University of Illinois, I took several classes in and composed music at the School of Music's Experimental Music Studios. I also took classes, did projects, and composed at the School of Music's Computer Music Project, which can be found at this location as well.

For an excellent series of important new works of computer music on compact disc, see the Consortium to Distribute Computer Music. Currently, there are 24 compact discs in this series, and I have the complete set. They offer a 5% discount to ICMA members.

And, while you're here, visit the Electronic Music Foundation. I'm a charter member of this organization, so if you look hard enough you'll find my name listed at this site!

Also check out the Symbolic Sound Corporation. They are the creators of Kyma, the most kick-butt sound system in the world. Symbolic Sound Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets hardware and software for computer-based digital audio. They are the creators of the Kyma sound design workstation, a visual sound design language with associated multi-DSP hardware accelerator. Kyma is being used for music, sound effects, virtual environments, psychoacoustic research, and sound design for film, advertising, and multimedia. The Kyma system is used by the Continuum.

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