I wanted to invite you to come and see a truly wonderful performer.  Please stop by the Tjaden Hall Galleries this evening to meet and hear marimbist Nathaniel Bartlett (this performance was originally listed for the Johnson Museum).  He will be showcasing several pieces commissioned and written for him and his custom electronic rig including a piece by my teacher and mentor, Allan Schindler.

His performance begins at 5:30pm and will be preceded and followed by time to talk with Nathaniel and ask questions about the music and about his performance techniques.  Nathaniel is in the midst of a US tour and has graciously agreed to stop in Ithaca.

I hope to see you there.

This weekend the Cornell Music Department is hosting a symposium on performance practice in the 20th Century featuring several important guests: cellist and improvisor Frances-Marie Uitti, well known writer and former New York Times critic Paul Griffiths, and musicologist Mark Katz, author of a new book on music and technology called Capturing Sound: How Technology Has Changed Music.

The event includes several lectures and demonstrations, two concerts, and a round table discussion featuring Griffiths and Katz as well as Cornell's own Steven Stucky (composition), Neal Zazslaw (musicology), and Xak Bjerken (piano, performance practice) moderating the affair. 

Click the image below for more details including the dates and time of each event.  I would encourage you to attend everything you can.

Hi All,

User registration was temporarily offline tonight to take care of a security question.  It is now back up. 

Below the main user login you will see "Create new account", click on this and follow the directions.  I will then receive your account request and approve it.  Upon approval you will be able to post you Assignment 0 blog entry.

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Here is the concert order for Monday night.  Rehearsal times will be on Monday in two slots: from 10am to 12pm and 4pm to 7pm.  Monday rehearsal times are shown in parenthesis next to your name.  Try to be there for your sheduled time.  If your listed time does not work, come when you can.

Pre-concert:
Sergei Lupashin. Tsitsi Jaji, Suneth Attygale (all day, run a 12 noon)

Concert:
Adrian Ng (10 - 10:10)
Ben Madoff (10:10 - 10:20)
Nathan Ward (10:20 - 10:30)
Adam Green (10:30 - 10:40)
Brad Mosier (10:40 - 10:50)
David Emery (10:50 - 11:00)
Ben Slovis (11 - 11:10)
Michael and Daniel Weinstein (11:10 - 11:20)
Kate Dicicco (11:20 - 11:30)
Bryan Foster (11:30 - 11:40)
Patrick Deitemeyer 11:40 - 12)

-- Intermission --
Sergei Lupashin. Tsitsi Jaji, Suneth Attygale (12 noon)

Bill Stickney, Chris John, Alex, Ben Slovis (4 - 4:30)
Daniel Zinn (4:30 - 4:40)
Rachel Clancy (4:40 - 4:50)
Karim Azem (4:50 - 5)
Alan Ra (5 - 5:10)
Brad Bershad (5:10 - 5:20)
Anubhav Jain (5:20 - 5:30)
David Bromber (5:30 - 5:40)
Fabián Cañas (5:40 - 6)
Mike Tosto (6 - 6:20)
Julie Moon (6:20 - 6:40)
August Zinsser (6:40 - 7)

The posters are ready for the show thanks to Alex Krivicich in Music 220, see the attached PDF.  I will be posting them this evening in and around Lincoln.  Feel free to print a few yourself and post them (8.5x11, B&W).

I will be posting concert order and Monday rehearsal times in the next few minutes.  Look fora that and SEND PROGRAM NOTES if you have them

Music 120 folks (and others with interest), here is the Courtney Love speech I referenced in lecture.  Enjoy.

http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html

Looking toward the end of the semester, if there are people interested in working with film, here is an interesting opportunity from Ryan Spicer in film:

"The as-yet-untitled film is a sedate, introspective drama about Lawrence, a college dropout who marks time in a convenience store while working self-study on what he believes is his philosophical enlightenment. Disconnected as he is from most of= the world, he is somehow drawn to Meredith, a well-mannered older woman who routinely shops at his store. He develops a fascination with her that begins to extend into the absurd/creepy when he finds her home address on a letter she drops and plans to meet her, but instead loses his nerve and watches her through her windows. When family drama pushes him to take action of some kind in his stagnant life, he approaches her, only to learn that she has no idea who he is, outside the context of their polite, but relatively meaningless, in-store chatter.

The movie will most likely be a bit more than 30 minutes long, but we don't need 30 minutes of music. Contact rps27@cornell.edu for more information."

Best Regards,
Ryan Spicer

To 220 students, can you give me an update on your experiences installing PD on various operating systems? If there are any problems, consider this the official thread for solving them.

Music 220-ers. I am looking for presenter/demonstrators for the computer information science department's BOOM conference. I mentioned this several times in class and folks got excited

The gig is TOMORROW (Wednesday, March 8th) at 4-6pm in the Dufffield Atrium (Duffield is the large building at the end of East Ave). We are meeting in B27 at 2:30 to load and head over.

This is a technology/creativity demonstration. Your music is welcome. Each and ever one of your projects (220) exhibits a level of sophistication worthy of this event.

Please write to me ASAP with your interest or just show up tomorrow in B27 at 2:30 or at Duffield at 4:00.

I sincerely hope to see some of you then!!

The formerly annoying Cubase problems in D (importing audio, etc) have been solved.

Happy working!