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Music-Research Digest Thu, 14 Dec 89 Volume 4 : Issue 74 Today's Topics: David Jaffe's NeXT Lisp/MusicKit Class ICTM Study Group More on computational music analysis... MUSICV NeXT-CSound, release 2 *** Send contributions to Music-Research@uk.ac.oxford.prg *** Send administrative requests to Music-Research-Request *** Overseas users should reverse UK addresses and give gateway if necessary *** e.g. Music-Research@prg.oxford.ac.uk *** or Music-Research%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 Nov 89 03:10:56 GMT From: Paul Lansky <phoenix!paul@edu.princeton> Subject: David Jaffe's NeXT Lisp/MusicKit Class To: music-research@uk.ac.oxford.prg David Jaffe is teaching a course at CCRMA this semester on the use of the MusicKit, and is using lisp to generate score files. He has kindly sent me his course materials for archiving. These are quite interesting, and I recommend them highly. There is also some good new documentation on scorefiles and on synthpatches. It is archived on winnie.princeton.edu (128.112.128.180) in put/NeXTMKlisptar.Z. While you are there also grab Jamey Pritchett's NeXTedsndtar.Z, a nice improvement on the supplied soundeditor. anonymous ftp of course. Paul Lansky Music Department Princeton University ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Nov 89 17:36:46 GMT From: BEL@EARN.FRMOP11 Subject: ICTM Study Group To: music-research@UK.AC.OXFORD.PRG Date: Tue, 28 Nov 89 17:30:04 GMT From: Bernard Bel <BEL@FRMOP11> Subject: STG??? To: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu ======================================================================== The last Music-Research Digest mentioned a "STG" meeting of the "ICTM" in Marseille, which is due to take place next year just before the 2nd Conf. "Musical Structures and Information Technology". Sorry that the information was not fully edited: "ICTM" is the "International Council for Traditional Music", and "STG" is the "Study Group on computer-aided research", e.g. a group of people involved in ethnomusicology or traditional musicology by ways of computers. The meeting is open to anyone interested in the topic...It will be chaired by Prof. Helmut Schaffrath (Univ. of Essen) Bernard Bel [ Sorry for not expanding the acronyms. It takes me long enough to clean up the INFOs, which arrive as FORTRAN print files (!!), and sometimes when my modem's phone bill gets too high I give up... - S. ] ------------------------------ Date: 6 Dec 89 01:22:48 GMT From: steveb%eve.WV.TEK.COM%orca.wv.tek.com%zephyr.ens.tek.com@net.uu.uunet Subject: More on computational music analysis... To: music-research@uk.ac.oxford.prg First off, I'd like to thank all of the folks who responded personally, as well as via postings, to my message regarding Schenker Analysis and it's adapt- ability to computer based analysis systems. I imagine many of you think I'm a Schenkerian sort of guy. The fact is, I am more interested is algorithmic adaptability in general, than Schenker specifically. To clarify my position: I agree with those of you who responded to the effect that the problem with Schenkerian analysis is that Schenker was convinced that any piece of music had only 1 "correct" analysis. I used to think I just didn't understand what I was taught in Schenker Analysis class since I thought I could find more ways than 1 of doing things. Then I realized that I did understand, I just simply disagreed with Schenker's idea that he was the only one who could apply the concepts properly. And... I remember how Schenker forever endeared himself to Arnold Schoenberg when he told him that he had invented an analytical system that conclusively proved that Schoenberg was not writing music. Oh well, forget the 20th century, right... But Pnews says this message is costing the world money... So, to the point. I am looking for references related to any new systems of music analysis which are adaptable to computer analysis. My specific interests are hierarchical systems and ones which might be adaptable to object oriented programming. If I get some interesting replies I will post them here. I am also looking for contacts who may have done graduate and doctoral work in this or related areas. Thanks, in advance, for any help. And thanks again to those who contributed meaningful dialog. Oh yea, for the record: Douglas Hofstadter is not my idea of a credible music theorist. Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FROM: STEVEN C. BILOW -- Software Engineer, Tektronix EMAIL: steveb@orca.WV.TEK.COM PHONE: (503) 685-2463 USMAIL: P.O. Box 1000 61-028, Wilsonville, OR 97070-1000 ------------------------------ Date: 5 Dec 89 00:29:32 GMT From: mcsun!sunic!tut!hydra!hylka!lassfolk@net.uu.uunet Subject: MUSICV To: music-research@uk.ac.oxford.prg In article <1246@amethyst.math.arizona.edu>, hicksm@spock (Michael Hicks) writes: > I have only heard references to MUSICV, (a mainframe computer music program) > and I would be interested in learning about any particulars about the system. > > Can anyone give me an overview on this program? I would recommend the book The Technology of Computer Music by Max V. Mathews, The M.I.T. Press, 1969. Music V and other Music programs are also discussed (in less detail) in Dodge & Jerse; Computer Music, Schirmer Books, 1985, ISBN 0-02-873100-X. > hicksm@spock.ame.arizona.edu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Kai Lassfolk BITNET: lassfolk@finuh.bitnet University of Helsinki Internet: lassfolk@cc.helsinki.fi Department of Musicology Vironkatu 1 Phone: +358-0-1924468 (office) SF-00170 HELSINKI +358-0-4554420 (home) Finland --------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: 27 Nov 89 15:41:36 GMT From: Pete Yadlowsky <gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!jeeves.acc.Virginia.@uk.ac.oxford.prg> Subject: NeXT-CSound, release 2 To: music-research@uk.ac.oxford.prg It's ready. This is the second release of my NeXT interface to Barry Vercoe's CSound software synthesis system. The sound files it generates are both NeXT and CSound compatible (with a slight change in the CSound header structure). New features include: - optional automatic soundfile normalization; eliminates sample overflow/clipping - communicates with SoundEditor, a soundfile editing application extended from Lee Boynton's original. SoundEditor is included in the package. - communicates with Hetro, a graphic user interface to Tom Sullivan's `hetro' program, which uses heterodyne filtering to analyze sound in terms of its harmonic content. Data files produced by Hetro can be used with CSound's `adsyn' module. Hetro is included in the package. - a generally spiffier interface, including a file browser for the display and management of sound and adsyn (others later) files. ftp: uvaarpa.acc.virginia.edu:/pub/next/appls/csound.tar.Z - Pete Peter M. Yadlowsky | "Pay no attention to that man Academic Computing Center | behind the curtain!" 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